entity · network_iberia1_central_mediterranean_metal_exchange
Central Mediterranean metal and technology exchange model
Also known as: Iberia–Sardinia metal exchange
Model for intermittent object, metal and technological circulation between Iberia and central Mediterranean nodes.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1200 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · critiques interpretation
Late Bronze Age Oxhide and oxhide-like ingots from areas other than the Mediterranean: problems and challenges — Serena Sabatini (2016)Shows the ambiguity of formal ingot comparisons.
Locator: pp. 29–45 - informs · provides archaeological observation
Sant’Imbenia (Alghero): further archaeometric evidence for an Iron Age market square — M. Clemenza, B. Billeci, M. Carpinelli, M. Ferrante, E. Fiorini, G. Gasperetti, S. Nisi, P. Oliva, V. Sipala, P. R. Trincherini, I. M. Villa, M. Rendeli (2021)Provides a specific late ninth-century case.
Locator: article 181, provenance discussion - informs · critiques interpretation
Iberia and its relations with the Mediterranean in later Prehistory (4th–2nd millennium BCE). A minimalist revision — Borja Legarra Herrero (2025)Provides a minimalist check on broader contact claims.
Locator: pp. 423–448
Research description
The model distinguishes object provenance and technological comparison from colonies, named merchants, population migration or direct voyages.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Object provenance does not identify a route
Material origin and movement mechanism are separate claims.
Why does this record have this property?
Iberian-compatible metal at Sardinia would not identify who transported it or whether movement was direct.
- Sant’Imbenia (Alghero): further archaeometric evidence for an Iron Age market square
supports assignment and caveat · article 181
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
Sant’Imbenia (Alghero): further archaeometric evidence for an Iron Age market square — M. Clemenza, B. Billeci, M. Carpinelli, M. Ferrante, E. Fiorini, G. Gasperetti, S. Nisi, P. Oliva, V. Sipala, P. R. Trincherini, I. M. Villa, M. Rendeli (2021)Provides a specific late ninth-century case.
Locator: article 181, provenance discussion - supports · critiques interpretation
Iberia and its relations with the Mediterranean in later Prehistory (4th–2nd millennium BCE). A minimalist revision — Borja Legarra Herrero (2025)Provides a minimalist check on broader contact claims.
Locator: pp. 423–448 - supports · critiques interpretation
Late Bronze Age Oxhide and oxhide-like ingots from areas other than the Mediterranean: problems and challenges — Serena Sabatini (2016)Shows the ambiguity of formal ingot comparisons.
Locator: pp. 29–45