Dealing with the outside: social power and legitimation in the South-East Iberian Peninsula during the Late Iron Age (6th – 1st Centuries BC)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse some strategies of power, social control and legitimation during the Iberian Late Iron Age (6th–1st centuries BC). It addresses how the Iberian elites exploited the domain of the ‘outside’ to legitimise and to retain their status. A diachronic approach is presented seeking to analyse the role of the outside realm throughout all the examined period and the variety of its expressions within the Iberian societies. In particular, the paper focuses on the south-east of Spain, an area with a rich archaeological record which, however, have never been approached from this viewV ≠lanku analiziramo strategije mo≠i, dru∫benega nadzora in legitimacije v iberski ∫elezni dobi (6.–1. stoletje pr. n. ∏t.). Raziskujemo, kako so iberske elite izkori∏≠ale domeno ‘zunanjega’, da bi legitimirale in ohranile svoj status. Predstavljamo diahron pristop pri analizi vloge zunanjega sveta skozi celotno preu≠evano obdobje in pri preu≠evanju raznolikosti teh izrazov v iberskih dru∫- bah. V ≠lanku se bolj podrobno osredoto≠amo na jugovzhodno πpanijo, obmo≠je z bogatimi arheolo∏- kimi zapisi, ki pa do sedaj ∏e niso bili raziskani s tak∏nim pristopom