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  1. Dec 6, 2018 · The art of these societies was characterised by powerful iconography: images were one of their best and most effective methods of dissemination and propaganda. Studying this iconography offers us an insight into the ideologically complex beliefs, narratives, and myths of the Iberians.

  2. Jun 17, 2021 · Feature. Picasso: echoes of Iberia. From myths of the Minotaur to Cycladic sculpture, the influence of the ancient world on Picasso is well known. But a less familiar part of the artist’s relationship with the distant past is his fruitful engagement with the art of ancient Iberia, as Cécile Godefroy and Hélène Le Meaux explain. Start.

  3. All of the above. A three-paneled painting is called a __________. Triptych. In the above image, what does the white towel in the back of the middle panel represent? Purity. In Robert Campin's Triptych of the Annunciation, what everyday object was turned into a religious symbol? A white towel. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards ...

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  5. Human-animal hybrids in the melting pot of ancient cultures. History has the bad habit of remembering the great empires of the past, and forgetting the cultures of the conquered. So it is with the Iberians, a vast network of city-states, tribes and confederacies who peopled the Iberian peninsula in what is modern day Spain and Portugal.

    • The First Iberians
    • The Iberian Tribes in Andalucia
    • Iberian Society
    • The Iberian Family and Home
    • The Iberian Oppidum
    • Iberian Agriculture
    • Iberian Animal Husbandry
    • The Landscape During The Iberian Period
    • Innovations During The Iberian Period
    • The First Use of Iron in Andalucia

    The Iberians emerged as a cultural unit during the 8th century BC although traces of what was to be their culture, on the eastern and southern coasts of Spain, go back as far as 3000 BC. Hecataeus of Miletus was the first known historian to use the term Iberia, which he wrote of about 500 BC. The name derives from the ancient inhabitants whom the G...

    Iberian Territory 300 BC Variously called Bastetani, Bastitani or Bastuli, they were the biggest Iberian tribal confederation in area, they dwelt in a territory that included large areas of the Mediterranean coast and the Sierra Nevada, in what today are parts of the modern regions of Murcia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalucia. Within Andalucia their...

    Greek Ceramics from Oppidum The Iberian society centred around the oppidum, a fortified settlement, that housed a chieftain, artisans, functionaries and an agrarian population. Outside the oppidum there was often a necropolis and one or more sanctuaries. Each oppidum controlled an area of agricultural land that was farmed by the inhabitants and an ...

    Most Iberian families consisted of a couple with three or four sons or daughters. Their house was made of stone plinths, adobe or bleached walls and a roof composed of wooden beams, straw thatch and mud. Many houses had several rooms and a courtyard, some even had a first floor. The smallest house had an area of about 70 square metres. Houses had n...

    The Iberians kept a full range of farm animals; cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens and donkeys. Cows were primarily for meat and hides, it was the sheep and goats that provided wool and the milk that was made into cheeses. Pigs were allowed to roam free in the forests, foraging on the acorns whilst cows were kept closer to home. Domestic dogs were ...

    The Iberians grew wheat and barley, peas and beans and fruit trees including figs, almonds, grapes and olives. They also collected acorns and nuts from surrounding woodland. In that respect they were not that different to their long-passed ancestors, the Neolithic people. What is different are the tools used in the field. Iron sickles have been fou...

    The Iberians kept a full range of farm animals; cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens and donkeys. Cows were primarily for meat and hides, it was the sheep and goats that provided wool and the milk that was made into cheeses. Pigs were allowed to roam free in the forests, foraging on the acorns whilst cows were kept closer to home. Domestic dogs were ...

    The predominant landscape was that of the Mediterranean forest, holm oaks, oaks, pines and wild olives. Beneath the trees and in areas where trees had been cleared, were mastic, cistus, broom and rosemary. Juniper could be found on higher ground. Alongside the rivers was what is known as riparian forest, a strip of willow, poplar, alder, ash and el...

    Iberian wheel thrown Ceramics Four innovations appeared during the Iberian period, all probably introduced by the Phoenicians; good ideas that must have rapidly spread along the well-established trading networks since there is no direct evidence for any Phoenician or for that matter Greek, physical presence anywhere inland. The first is the millsto...

    Iron started to be worked during the Iberian period. Whether the techniques and skills came from the Phoenicians or from the Celt-Ibero tribes that neighboured the Iberians to the northwest and north is still a matter of debate. Certainly the more artistic, ornamental, iron work is more reminiscent of the Celtic tribes than anything from the easter...

  6. Jun 1, 2015 · Abstract. This chapter is based on fieldwork carried out in Spain and Portugal among different spiritual groups that were influenced by the international Pagan movement. The women (and few men) I ...

  7. What we do have, however, is a significant and growing body of archeological and toponymic evidence of pre-Roman cultures, Roman ethnographic accounts by historians —such as they are— and a fairly well documented ethnography of modern Iberian traditions with strong analogues in the so-called Celtic rim that runs from Ireland to Scotland to ...

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