The Bronze Age in Balearic Islands
Lull V., Micó R., Herrada C.R., Risch R.
In: Fokkens H., Harding A. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of The European Bronze Age. — Oxford, 2013. — pp. 617-631.The Balearic archipelago consists of four main islands whose biogeographic variability has conditioned human population since prehistoric times. In antiquity the perception of these differences caused them to be differentiated as the Pine Islands and the Gymnesian Islands. The Pine Islands include Ibiza and Formentera, the southernmost and smallest islands, and those nearest the mainland. Our archaeological knowledge of their prehistoric occupation is affected by some large gaps, as a result of research being focused traditionally on the abundant evidence of the Punic period and also perhaps due to a smaller initial human population.