The eastern islands of Al-Andalus

Between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, al-Andalus formed part of an Islamic world connected by intense exchange networks across the Mediterranean. Archaeologist Mateu Riera, co-director of the excavations at Son Peretó (Manacor) and on the island of Cabrera, brings us closer to this society from the perspective of the Balearics and their material culture. Ceramics, in particular, will be a privileged source for understanding everyday life, trade and the circulation of people, objects and ideas in the medieval Islamic Mediterranean. He holds a PhD in History from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is associate professor of Medieval History there, teaches at the Facultat Antoni Gaudí d’Història, Arqueologia i Arts Cristianes, and is an associate researcher at the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica. His research focuses on the fifth to eighth centuries, especially Christianity, monasticism and ceramics, and he has also developed studies on the Andalusi period. He has co-directed archaeological excavations at more than a dozen sites in Catalonia and the Balearics. He currently co-directs the excavations of the early Christian complex of Son Peretó in Manacor (Mallorca) an…

Voy Palma — The eastern islands of Al-Andalus