Travels through Prehistoric Spain: A Guide
By (author) Jude Brown By (author) Gary Lock
Paperback (Published)
(September 2025)
ISBN: 9781805830900
6.85 x 9.69 inches
Price: $42.00
In stock
This guide opens up Spain’s rich prehistoric past, highlighting over 220 sites, museums and landscapes across the country. From cave art to dolmen and Iron Age castros, it combines practical visitor information with clear background on prehistoric chronology, inviting discovery beyond the usual tourist routes.
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.
Introduction
Chronology and sites
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Madrid
The National Archaeological Museum
Chapter 2: Cave art in north-western Spain: Pais Vasco, Cantabria and Asturias
Palaeolithic cave art
San Sebastian to Bilbao
Bilbao to Santander
Around Santander
San Vicente de la Barquera to Ribadesella
In and around Oviedo
Chapter 3: The Castros of western Asturias
Castros - a brief summary
Around Navia
Chapter 4: Coastal Galicia
The Route of the Dolmen (La Ruta dos Dolmen)
A diversion to Santiago del Compostela
Chapter 5: Around Logrono: La Rioja, Navarra and Pais Vasco
South-west of Logrono
Chapter 6: Aragon
Rock art in Aragon
Museums
Rock art sites
Valle de Hecho/Val d'Echo
Chapter 7: Castilla y Leon
Around Ciudad Rodrigo
Avila and around
Burgos and around
Soria and around
Ambrona and around
Chapter 8: Extremadura
Central Extremadura: around Caceres
Dolmen de Valencia de Alcantara
Southern Extremadura, around Badajoz and Merida
Chapter 9: Andalucia
North of Huelva
Antequera
Gorafe, northeast of Granada
Almeria and Los Millares
Chapter 10: Catalunya
Parc Megalitic de Roses
Chapter 11: Menorca
Index
,
Introduction
Chapter 1: Madrid
Chapter 2: Cave art in north-western Spain: País Vasco, Cantabria and Asturias
Chapter 3: The Castros of western Asturias
Chapter 4: Coastal Galicia
Chapter 5: Around Logroño: La Rioja, Navarra and País Vasco
Chapter 6: Aragón
Chapter 7: Castilla y León
Chapter 8: Extremadura
Chapter 9: Andalucía
Chapter 10: Catalunya
Chapter 11: Menorca
Index
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.
- By (author) Jude Brown
- By (author) Gary Lock
'Informative, adventurous, and warmly written, this book is highly recommended for travellers, walkers, enthusiasts, archaeologists, and anyone else seeking a different way to experience Spain's deep past.' – George Nash (2026): Current World Archaeology #138
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