New Trends in Iberian Zooarchaeology

Abstract

The study of faunas from Iberian archaeological sites has been an erratic process that, starting in the mid-nineteenth century witnessed repeated periods of development and neglect. This lasted until the last decades of the 20th century when it definitively entered a prolonged trajectory of expansion in both Spain and slightly later in Portugal. The author, who started work in the 1970s, reviews some of the landmarks of these developments from his personal standpoint and, despite all the problems that still plague research on this field, feels that the best of Iberian archaeozoology is yet to come.