Drawing on scholarship in postcolonial archaeology that emphasizes the place of indigenous technology in colonial and imperial contexts, this article explores the role of local communities in esparto grass weaving and basketry in the southeast Iberian Peninsula in antiquity. Esparto crafting became essential to Phoenician and Carthaginian colonial economies of the 1st millennium BCE and, later, to the production equipment for mining and other industries under Roman imperial rule. This paper uses ethnographic studies alongside archaeological evidence of esparto objects, particularly esparto mining equipment, to reconstruct the chaîne opératoire of ancient esparto crafting. It argues that local communities developed landscape learning and tactile technical knowledge surrounding esparto crafting over many generations. In supplying equipment essential to Roman mining, these communities used their technical knowledge to maintain agency and construct their identities under imperial rule. Ultimately, understanding esparto crafting helps elucidate the relationship between resources, technology, and imperial or colonial encounters.

本文利用后殖民考古学中强调土著技术在殖民和帝国背景下的地位的学术研究，探讨了当地社区在古代伊比利亚半岛东南部的麻草编织和篮筐方面的作用。埃斯巴托手工艺在公元前 1 千年成为腓尼基和迦太基殖民经济的必要条件，后来成为罗马帝国统治下采矿和其他工业的生产设备。本文使用民族志研究和esparto物品的考古证据，特别是esparto采矿设备，以重建chaîne opératoire古代埃斯巴托工艺。它认为，当地社区围绕 esparto 工艺发展了几代人的景观学习和触觉技术知识。在提供罗马采矿必不可少的设备时，这些社区利用他们的技术知识来维持代理权并在帝国统治下建立自己的身份。最终，了解埃斯帕托工艺有助于阐明资源、技术与帝国或殖民遭遇之间的关系。