Iberian Peninsula Archive
Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study reports a new species of sauropod dinosaur that lived in Cuenca, Spain, 75 million years ago: Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra. General
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The question of when and how early hominids first arrived in Europe from Africa has been a significant topic of debate in human evolution.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The recent discovery of a 2,400-year-old tablet in Spain has shed light on an ancient lost civilization. The 8-inch slate, unearthed at the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The beautiful Treasure of Villenna was discovered in 1963 by archaeologist José María Soler in the sands of a dry riverbed in Villena,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists from the Universities of Granada and Cambridge, as well as the Government of Catalonia, have identified the oldest pieces
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Research into ancient hunter-gatherer populations of the Iberian Peninsula has mainly focused on coastal regions, with relatively little investigation into the inland. A classic
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team has found the remains of nine different camelids, making Córdoba one of the main sites featuring this animal on the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Caves served as sites for burial and later modification of human remains for thousands of years in the Iberian Peninsula, according to a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Celtiberian tribes of mixed Iberian and Celtic origin inhabited an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries B.C. In the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers has analyzed ancient human DNA from several archaeological sites in Andalucía in southern Spain. The study reports on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the University of Barcelona have analyzed settlement dynamics of the communities of the central-eastern Iberian Peninsula that existed 4,000 years ago.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remain unclear. To elucidate the situation, it is useful to explore
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite its prior status as a luxury commodity, silver became widely used for coinage in the Roman world from the 7th century BCE
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Researchers undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is a unique archaeological discovery because finding prehistoric remains of modern humans in the Iberian Peninsula does not happen often. The remains
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The analyses of the study of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula suggest Iberian male lineages were almost completely replaced, between 4,500 and 4,000
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many intriguing legends surround Melusine (Melusina), a daughter of Pressina. Melusine was a charming water fairy and a fictional figure in a well-known European
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