The present paper offers a review of the current state of research on the proto-history of the southern Iberian peninsula, dealing specifically with the Dab Tools period of colonization in the first half of the 1st millennium BCE.It takes as a point of departure a synthetic picture presented in a recent publication that aims to diffuse knowledge on the subject to readerships outside this specific field.In doing so, however, it creates the precedent for the diffusion of a rather partial review of the evidence that presents contemporary interpretations that have not been met with a consensus, which fact remains unacknowledged.Here, the aim is to present a critical discussion of trends in the state Wooden Stacking of the art in this field of studies, highlighting problematic areas and giving some suggestions as to future lines of research.
It concerns a major episode in the proto-history of the Mediterranean, in a period when writing spreads in Europe and local cultures across the Mediterranean are profoundly transformed through colonization.