The ancient Talayotic Culture of Menorca can be best distinguished from that of Mallorca through peculiarities in its monumental architecture. This paper examines the social significance of Menorca’s megalithic structures, known as ‘taulas’. The construction of such visible monuments within the island’s cultural landscape at a time when foreign relations were increasing is significant in that it could suggest a conscious desire for differentiation from Mallorca, its larger and nearest Balearic Island neighbor. This article proposes that these monuments might have functioned as a source of social resilience for indigenous Menorcans, fostering and enabling the persistence of a distinct identity throughout the Roman epoch when the presence of Roman military personnel on the island further intensified foreign cultural interactions. Active engagement in identity curation might also have provided a sense of sovereignty within the broader ‘globalizing’ hegemony of the Roman Empire. The apparent latitude with which this seems to have been carried out also calls into question broadly accepted narratives regarding the Roman presence in Menorca.

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罗马时代梅诺卡岛的岛屿考古、身份和复原力

梅诺卡岛古老的塔拉奥托文化与马略卡岛的文化可以通过其纪念性建筑的特殊性来最好地区分。本文探讨了梅诺卡岛巨石结构（称为“taulas”）的社会意义。在外交关系增加的时候，在岛上的文化景观中建造这些可见的纪念碑意义重大，因为它可能表明有意识地希望与马略卡岛区分开来，马略卡岛是其更大和最近的巴利阿里岛邻国。本文提出，当罗马军事人员在岛上的存在进一步加强了外国文化互动时，这些纪念碑可能已成为土著梅诺卡人社会复原力的源泉，在整个罗马时代促进并实现了独特身份的持久性。积极参与身份管理也可能在罗马帝国更广泛的“全球化”霸权中提供了一种主权感。这似乎已经进行的明显纬度也对关于罗马人在梅诺卡岛存在的广泛接受的叙述提出了质疑。