Mirándonos al espejo: narrativas sobre el proceso colonial en la isla de Mallorca durante la Edad del Hierro (850-123 aC)

Abstract

This article considers the diverse research strategies applied in Mallorca island for the analysis and interpretation of the significance and reach of the contacts between indigenous and foreign communities during the Iron Age II, particularly in the case of Ibiza populations. This study follows three basic guidelines: a brief analysis of archaeological praxis and the main agents operating at the time, the revision of the theoretical-methodological basis they rested on and, finally, an overview of the main narratives. Hence it implies accepting the premise that there is not an only valid approach to narrate a certain phenomenon, but rather multiple and varied proposals may coexist, any of them developed from different theoretical premises, scientific and social contexts and, above all, following highly different aims and functions.