Project Management: Prof. Dr. Martin Bartelheim (Institute for Prehistory and Early History, University of Tübingen), Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg (Frobenius Institute at Goethe University)
Project staff: Manuel Respondek, Elene Revert Frances
Duration: July 2021 - June 2025
Funding: DFG within the framework of the CRC 1070 „RessourcenKulturen“
Project partners: Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Huelva, Parco Minero Riotinto, German Archaeological Institute Madrid
Funding volume: approx. 470,000 euros
Subproject A 02 of SFB 1070 focuses on long-term developments in resource cultures in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. In line with the overall concept of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB), the project investigates resource cultures that interacted and influenced one another in this region during specific periods. The direct comparison of these resource cultures brings their respective characteristics into sharper relief, thereby enabling a more precise characterization of them. In accordance with the diachronic perspective envisaged for the prehistoric part of the subproject since the inception of SFB 1070, the first case study examines socio-cultural interactions between the local population and the immigrant Phoenicians in southwestern Spain along the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir and in the adjacent Huelva region at the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. The second case study focuses on the modern era and examines the interactions between agrarian Spanish society and British mining companies that exploited the rich ore deposits in the mountains of Huelva in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Both case studies will take a comparative look at the social, economic, and cultural implications of the clash between different ideas, practices, and dynamics in the management of resources or resource complexes in specific landscapes.
