El próximo jueves 25 de mayo en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid), se dictará la conferencia: Mujeres y Poder en la Prehistoria. La "Señora del Marfil" del Mega-Sitio de la Edad del Cobre de Valencina, impartida  por  Marta Cintas Peña y Leonardo García Sanjuán. Lugar: Salón de Actos, Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid) 18:30 h  

  Con el proyecto Gigantes de la Prehistoria. Megalitismo y Complejidad Social Temprana en Antequera y Valencina concurrimos en el Premio Nacional de Arqueología y Paleontología Fundación PALARQ, cuyo objetivo es reconocer la excelencia y originalidad de proyectos arqueológicos y paleontológicos liderados por equipos de investigación españoles. Más información: Fundación PALARQ  

Leonardo García Sanjuan is a new JMA-Chair in the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at the University of Kiel in Germany (during the spring 2023). The research of our colleague Leonardo Garcia will focus on various topics, such as early social complexity, funerary practices, megalithic monuments and prehistoric landscapes, with special attention to Late Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Iberia. More information: https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/news/we-welcome-leonardo-garcia-sanjuan-as-new-jma-chair   

We have published the book  "Territorios Rupestres en América Latina"  The book edited por Aline Lara Galicia y Luis Martos López, brings together rock art research in different American countries. Publisher by Universidad Pablo de Olavide-ENREDRAS. Free download: https://rio.upo.es/xmlui/handle/10433/15715  

On February 2 was presented the book "Dolmen de Menga intervention 2005-2006. Investigating the genesis of an exceptional Neolithic monument", a book that presents the work carried out by the ATLAS group and institutional collaborations of national and international researchers. The speakers at the event were: Juan Rosas Gallardo, Councilman of World Heritage of the City Council of Antequera; Manuel Pimentel Siles, Editor of Almuzara...

We have published the book Dolmen de Menga: Intervention 2005-2006. Investigando la Génesis de un Monumento Neolítico Excepcional (Seville, Editorial Universidad de Sevilla and Almuzara Universidad, 2022). The book edited by Leonardo García Sanjuán, with a foreword by Professor Antonio Gilman and preamble by Manuel Pimentel, brings together interdisciplinary research from the excavations carried out at the dolmen between 2005 and 2006 More information at:...

Nuestro paper "Gender Inequalities in Neolithic Iberia: A Multi-Proxy Approach", publicado en 2019 en European Journal of Archaeology (factor de impacto 1,85),  tras tres años  en el top ten de los artículos más leídos de esa revista Más información  

Los investigadores Prof. Johan Ling y Dr. Cecilia Lindhé de la Universidad de Gothenburg  presentarán la conferencia "Metal trade between the Atlantic north and Iberia 1300- 700 BC" Lunes 5 de diciembre 12 h Aula Carriazo Facultad de Geografía e Historia

Seminario entorno a la tecnología LIDAR en Arqueología, sus avances, sus problemas y sus acciones.  participa Francisco Sánchez, Universidad de Sevilla  y Antonio Monterroso, Universidad de Córdoba 24 de noviembre 18 a 20h Sala Carriazo de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia Universidad de Sevilla

We publish a new article titled "The “Megalithisation” of Iberia: A Spatio-Temporal Model". In the last 20 years, the growing availability of radiometric data has led to profound changes in the archaeological study of cultural and social processes in European Late Prehistory. In this paper, we examine how the combined use of spatial analysis and Bayesian modelling can further contribute to an enhanced interpretation of the...

We participated in the meeting of the European Megalithic Study Group, in Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, with the conference "Towards a High-Resolution Approach to the Temporality of Major Megalithic Monuments. The Examples of Menga and Montelirio (Spain)". For decades, establishing the temporality of major megalithic monuments has been a significant archaeological problem that has hampered the interpretation of the roles they played among early...

We publish a new article titled "Potential and limitations of LiDAR altimetry in archaeological survey. Copper Age and Bronze Age settlements in southern Iberia".  The data pertaining the settlement dynamics of Sierra Morena in the CA and BA presented here, compiled on the basis of a LiDAR-based analysis, complements and expands the previous knowledge gathered after years of fieldwork (with the support of aerial photography).