Peter van Dommelen, Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology

As connectivity and colonialism have become entrenched as the new buzzwords of the
Iron Age, the spaces in which these processes played out have received much less attention
than the connections that were created and the influences and transformations that ensued; the
corollary question of who actually shaped these spaces has accordingly barely been posed. It
is thus my intention to turn the affirmative statement of this year’s workshop into an open
question and to explore who shaped which spaces. In other words, whose agencies can we
discern in the complex spaces and interactions that defined much of the Iron Age writ large
across the West Mediterranean?

In order to bring out the rich cultural diversity of the wider West Mediterranean and its
islandscapes, I will roam well beyond the Tuscan hills and the Maremma coastlands and
reach out across the Tyrrhenian Sea to the shores of the Iberian Levante – taking in what on
this occasion I may term the ‘outer spaces’ of the West Mediterranean, including the
Tyrrhenian islands of Sardinia and Sicily.

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