Travels through Prehistoric Spain: A Guide

Spain is a big country with many thousands of prehistoric monuments and associated museums. This guide provides information on a small number of the best ones. It details how to access over 220 prehistoric sites, museums and interpretation centres in many of Spain’s autonomous regions. It also provides a background to the prehistoric chronology of Spain and explains the main types of prehistoric monuments which can be visited. These range from Palaeolithic cave art to Neolithic dolmen and Iron Age castros. Many of these sites will take you into areas of Spain little visited by tourists and involve walks through beautiful and sometimes remote landscapes.

Author Biography

Jude Brown is a retired Youth and Community Officer who worked for Oxfordshire County Council. She is particularly interested in enhancing educational opportunities for disadvantaged children and runs a small charity (Education for Democracy in South Africa) which works in a rural township in the Western Cape of South Africa.

Gary Lock is an Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford. He spent many years teaching and researching prehistoric archaeology specialising in the Iron Age and hillforts. He has published widely and is a co-director of the successful Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland.

Jude and Gary have three children, six grandchildren and a VWT5 camper van with a Bilbo conversion. They live in Oxford.