Social Complexity and the Development of Towns in Iberia: From the Copper Age to the Second Century AD

by Barry Cunliffe (Editor), Simon Keay (Editor)

This important collection of essays presents the first survey in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for the development of urbanism in Iberia--evidence crucial for our understanding of the origin of ancient towns in Europe.

480 pages, Hardcover

First published October 19, 1995

About the author

Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe taught archaeology in the Universities of Bristol and Southampton and was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2008, thereafter becoming Emeritus Professor. He has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries, Governor of the Museum of London, and a Trustee of the British Museum. He is currently a Commissioner of English Heritage.