ABSTRACT
The last centuries of the second millennium and the first centuries of the first millennium b.c. were times of profound change in the southwestern region of the Iberian Peninsula. During this period—and particularly between the eleventh and eighth centuries b.c.—we see a series of significant transformations in the social relations governing economic production and in both access to and the forms and distribution of power. The most important changes are in population growth, new spatial relations among settlements, changes in architecture and the built environment, new social practices, and, with them, changes in material culture (Figure 15.1). The archaeological evidence for these changes allows us to see the erosion of long-established forms of power and ideology and the emergence of new social and cultural lifeways that are conventionally related in the literature with the world of Tartessos. The Atlantic Andalusian region around the tenth to eighth centuries <sc>b.c.</sc> https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203072035/df126e4c-7b11-49ad-986f-751f7e7956ef/content/fig15_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
