The 2nd Conference New Investigations in the Antequera Megalithic Site of Antequera is held on November 29th 2019 at the Pabellón de México of the University of Seville. This meeting is aimed at facilitating the scientific debate on the Antequera Megalithic Site among specialists, students and the general public.

Dr. Marta Cintas Peña has been awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis in Equality Issues Award by the University of Seville. The objective of these awards is to encourage research work incorporating a gender perspective and / or gender as a category of analysis in any academic discipline.

Professor Leonardo García Sanjuán receives the 2019 “Christiane et Jean Guilaine Foundation” Award of the French Academy of Good Letters. In his speech at the award ceremony held in Paris, professor Jean Guilaine highlighted the contribution of the research group ATLAS to the advancement of the study of Western European Late Prehistory.

Our paper "Gender Inequality in Neolithic Iberia: A Multi-Proxy Approach" has been published on the EJA first view page. This paper is a major contribution towards the understanding of the origin of inequality between men and women in Iberian Late Prehistory. The research is based on a multy-proxy approach involving a systematic collection of bioarchaeological and funerary data, subsequently examined by means of significance testing. Our conclusions suggest that, first, the multi-proxy method...

We publish a new book titled "Making a Mark:  Imagery and Process in Neolithic Britain and Ireland" with Oxbow. The book, co-authored by Marta Díaz Guardamino Uribe (University of Durham) and Andrew Meirion Jones (University of Southampton), publishes the outcomes of a research project with the same title funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project revised more than a thousand decorated artefacts from Neolithic Britain...

On Wednesday February 6th 2019 Spain’s most circulated newspaper, El País, featured our Montelirio tholos research on the front page of its web site. The item quickly became the most viewed bit of news in the newspaper that day.

Professor Leonardo García Sanjuán receives the University of Sevilla Award as Most Cited Researcher in the Field of Humanities.

We publish a new monograph, titled ‘The 2005 Excavation at the Menga Dolmen. Temporality, Biography and Material Culture in a World Heritage Monument’. This book, co-published by the University of Sevilla and the Ministry of Culture of the Andalusian Regional Government results from the projects ‘Nature, Society and Monumentality: High-Resolution Archaeological Research into the Megalithic Landscape of Antequera (HAR 2013-45149-p) (2014-2017), part of the national...

Four PhD Theses were submitted by members of our research group, including ‘Gender Inequality in Iberian Prehistory. A Multi-Variable Approach’ (Marta Cintas Peña, July 2018), ‘Ivory in Copper Age Iberia. A Technological, Experimental and Contextual Approach to the Ivory Collections of the Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán Mega-Site (Seville)’ (Miriam Luciañez Triviño, September 2018), ‘Forgotten Landscapes in the Uruguayan Highlands. Stone Architecture in the...

We participate in the scientific edition of the book ‘Prehistoric Mining in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula: La Turquesa or Mas de les Moreres Mine (Cornudella de Montsant, Tarragona, Spain)’ (Revista d’Arqueologia de Ponent, Special Issue nº 2) as well as in the research on the research of this Prehistoric copper mine, the first to be excavated in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula.

Our participation in the annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeology, held in Barcelona (5-8th September 2018), includes the organisation of four sessions (“Human-Made Environments: The Development of Landscapes as Resource Assemblages”, “Human, Posthuman, Transhuman Digital Archaeologies”, “The Future of Rock Art – Documentation, Research, and Outreach”, and “ Moving Forward Through a New Gendered Funerary Archaeology: Current Research and New Perspectives on Differences...

During the meeting held in Paris (June 3rd-9th 2018), the Scientific Committee of the International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) has awarded its Medal to Best Neolithic book to our monograph “Montelirio. A Great Megalithic Monument of the Copper Age”, published by the Cultural Ministry of the Andalusian Government in 2016. We thank the UISPP for this great honour, which is a...

The June 2018 issue of Journal of Archaeological Science publishes our paper “Landmark of the past in the Antequera megalithic landscape: a multi-disciplinary approach to the Matacabras rock art shelter”. This paper is a major contribution towards the understanding of Antequera’s complex megalithic landscape, as we examine here the relationship between a natural formation, La Peña, the graphic motifs depicted in the Matacabras shelter, and...

The June 2018 issue of Journal of World Prehistory features our long paper “Assembling the dead, gathering the living: radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modeling for Copper Age Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla, Spain)”. After five years of work, and with the support of The Time of Their Lives ERC-funded project led by professor Alasdair Whittle (University of Cardiff, UK), this paper presents a large number...

The La 2 channel of Spain’s National Television (RTVE) broadcasts a report on our recent research at the Copper Age sites of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzman and La Loma del Real Tesoro. This report includes various interviews, footage from various locations at both sites as well as a newly made virtual reconstruction of Montelirio, the great megalithic tomb that has recently yielded astonishing...

The Spanish Government, through its Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (State Secretary of Research, Development and Innovation), approves our application for further funding for our ongoing research at the Antequera Dolmens Site. The project “Megalithic Biographies: The Antequera Monumental Landscape in its Temporal and Spatial Context (BIO-MEGA)” has been awarded a 103.000€ grant for the period 2018-2020. The epistemological framework of reference...