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The Phoenician World

The Ancients

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The Mediterranean Culture of the Tartesians

Tartestians are kind of, to put it very simply, cannot like the truscans of ancient spain. We don't have this huge necropolis, but we do have necropolis. They also have tumuli where local leaders were buried with luxury items. So there is a local culture that gets richer, we think, via the interaction with thes phoenicians,. probably acting as middlemen in ther whole metal business and trade in general. And these groups use this interaction to create an aesthetic andvisual material culture which makes them look more powerful.

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