Ex occidente lux: a preface / Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz
Theoretical issues and frameworks
Colonial encounters in Iberia and the western Mediterranean: an exploratory framework / Michael Dietler
Colonial relations and social change in Iberia (seventh to third centuries bc) / Joan Sanmartí
New perspectives on Phoenician and Greek ventures on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts
Colonial contacts and protohistoric indigenous urbanism on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian peninsula / Maria Carme Belarte
Phoenician colonization on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula / Ana Marguerida Arruda
Greeks and the Iberian peninsula: forms of exchange and settlements / Pierre Rouillard
Plant resources, agrarian practices, and the colonial political economy
Botanical and archaeological dimensions of the colonial encounter / Ramon Buxó
Lumbermen and shipwrights: Phoenicians on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain / Brigitte Treumann
The question of Tartessos: a debate reframed
Phoenicians in Tartessos / María Belén Deamos
Precolonization and colonization in the interior of Tartessos / Sebastián Celestino Pérez
Interrogating colonial texts and imagined landscapes
Tarshish and Tartessos revisited: textual problems and historical implications / Carolina López-Ruiz
Iberia in the Greek geographical imagination / Javier Gómez Espelosín
Colonial encounters in ancient Iberia: a coda.