2022EUROMED - Antique Cities of Mediterranean - Special Folder

Ever since the Bronze Age, relationships between the West and the Mediterranean have been intense, with far-reaching impacts on the organisation of societies. One of the oldest and most significant testimonies of these relationships and their effects is the adoption of writing during the first Iron Age of the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, from the 7th century BCE. This adoption takes place in the context of a general phenomenon of urbanisation of those communities, from which the towns and cities of this part of the world were born.