| Summary: | The Phoenician commercial expansion, originated on the last centuries of the Second Millennium BC, has supposed the foundation of certain colonies throughout the whole Mediterranean, and the expansion of their material remains throughout a great part of Europe and Africa. In the Iberian Peninsula, Phoenicians have got in contact with pre-existent populations, whom iconography and culture were influenced, and their presence has been marked by archaeological vestiges, such as cities, sanctuaries, pottery, necropolises, wrecks, or metallurgical objects. The vestiges of the colonial Phoenician activity in Iberia spread by the Andalusian, Levantine, and the Ibizan insular coasts, being the present article focused on the two firstly mentioned. Precisely based on the commented remains, the Archaeology is the discipline who can better draw the truly Phoenician panorama in the Iberian Peninsula.
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