Prehistory of the Iberian peninsula

This article is devoted to the Préhistoire of the Iberian peninsula :

Paleolithic inferior

The Iberian peninsula shelters many prehistoric sites of world famous. The discoveries testify to a human occupation as of the Paléolithique inferior (sites of Orce, Pinedo, Aridos, Torralba, Ambrona, Atapuerca).

  • 780.000 years before our era: site of to Atapuerca.

Paleolithic means

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Paleolithic superior

  • the Spanish Solutréen left some traces in the cave of the Parpallo.

  • Magdalénien : the site of Altamira offers an example of parietal Art going back to approximately 12.000 years before J. - C.

Neolithic

See the detailed article Neolithic in the Iberian peninsula. ()

The old Neolithic cardial, whose traces correspond to the diffusion of the shape of pottery, leaves the area of Byblos like cultural hearth and is diffused in the Mediterranean basin via the Italique peninsula, until the Pyrenean buttresses as the chart indicates it opposite.

Original Neolithic cultures, (" Campaniform " , civilization of El Argar close to Alméria) develop in Spain. The technique of the megalithic metallurgy and the erection of monuments attach Spain to the evolutions which relate to Western Europe: the Taula S of the Balearic Islands are surmounted vertical stones of another horizontal stone.

Protohistoire

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  • 1100 av. J. - C.: foundation of the counter of Cadiz by the Phéniciens

  • Arrivée of the Celtibères in Antiquity marks the end of the period.

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