CONEXIONES VISUALES, ARQUITECTURA Y ANÁLISIS DE REDES EN MALLORCA DURANTE LA EDAD DEL HIERRO

Abstract

Architecture has been a central thread in how the Prehistory of the Balearic Islands has been approached. The scale of the constructions, and their visibility across the landscape has made them a key feature in our approach and understanding of the first millennium BC in the islands. The main goal of this research is to analyse how monumental communal architecture enabled the construction of enduring social spaces, and how these spaces both changed with the community, and the community with them. It focuses on the Talayotic period (c.850-550 BCE) and the Postalayotic period (c.550-123 BCE), which highlight the use of cyclopean constructions in communal spaces and allow us to examine how the architecture played a central role in the social and political arenas of the island communities. The study focuses on two areas of the island of Mallorca, and through the analysis of intervisibility networks, aims to understand how different communities used architecture to signify their landscape. The exploration of intervisibility through Network Analysis allowed to understand how architectures connected the landscape. By focusing on the relations, we have been able to understand them as a network and trace the changes and survivals and the relations that they enabled.