Nuevas ideas para viejas prácticas: hibridaciones técnicas en el sureste de Mallorca durante el siglo II a.C.

This article addresses the introduction of stone-and-mud innovative building systems in Mallorca. Even though they were already in use in Mediterranean colonies during Iron Age II, they were unknown in Balearic indigenous contexts. Up to now, these building systems have been identified in the village of Puig de Sa Morisca and neighbouring area, to the south of the island. In a space with frequent contact between local communities and Punic groups from Ibiza, we documented the introduction of an innovative architectonic technological manifestation. It may be interpreted as an innovative hybrid technique, neither completely foreign nor strictly local, which gains meaning in the social logics it was inserted in. Consequently, its identification in a space which differs from the rest of the island sites is not incidental due to its more intense contacts with the Punic world and its influence area, and the way old and new identities had been negotiated from the 6th century BC.