Participamos en el workshop “Key Resources and Socio-cultural Developments in the Iberian Chalcolithic”

Archaeology documents the critical roles that ritual played in early regional political organizations. These intermediate-scale societies represent a scalar jump in size and complexity from hunter-forager bands and farming villages. Ritual spaces and monuments materialized regional organizations, and their physical durability makes them ideal for archaeological study. Impressive monumental architecture in intermediate societies, however, has […]

Our dear colleague and friend Víctor Hurtado Pérez (Solana de los Barros, Badajoz, 1950) passed away on Saturday September 7th 2024. Víctor was a retired Senior Lecturer at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Sevilla, and a founding member of the ATLAS research group. For over three decades, he was very […]

Megaliths represent the earliest form of monumental stone architecture. The earliest megalithic chambers in Europe appeared in France in the fifth millennium BCE. Menga is the oldest of the great dolmens in Iberia (approximately 3800 to 3600 BCE). Menga’s capstone #5 weighing 150 tons is the largest stone ever moved in Iberia as part of […]