1st Edition

The Archaeology of Iberia The Dynamics of Change

Edited By Margarita Diaz-Andreu, Simon Keay Copyright 1997
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

For many archaeologists, Iberia is the last great unknown region in Europe. Although it occupies a crucial position between South-Western Europe and North Africa, academic attention has traditionally been focused on areas like Greece or Italy. However Iberia has an equally rich cultural heritage and archaeological tradition. This ground-breaking volume presents a sample of the ways in which... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Conflict and Innovation; 3: Behavioural Transformations During the Pleistocene; 4: The Neolithic of the Iberian Peninsula; 5: The Funerary World and the Dynamics of Change in Southeast Spain (Fourth–Second Millennia BC); 6: The Dynamics of the occupation of the Middle Basin of the River Guadiana between the Fourth and Second Millennia BC; 7: The Neolithic/Chalcolithic Transition in Portugal; 8: The Dynamics of Change in Northwest Portugal During the First Millennium BC; 9: Migration Revisited; 10: The Iron Age Iberian Peoples of the Upper Guadalquivir Valley; 11: Urban Transformation and Cultural Change; 12: Hispania; 13: Observations on Historiography and Change from the Sixth to Tenth Centuries in the North and West of the Iberian Peninsula; 14: The Origins of Al-Andalus (Eighth and Ninth Centuries); 15: All Change?

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Margarita Diaz-Andreu, Simon Keay