Spain 1001 Sights: An Archaeological and Historical Guide

by James Maxwell Anderson

Spain, 1001 Sights: An Archaeological and Historical Guide is a unique historical and archaeological guidebook to Spain introduces the reader and traveller to the very foundations of the modern state from the earliest period down to medieval Moslem and Christian societies. With its broad scope, classification of monuments and integrated site-based history, the reader is guided to in situ remains, which may be cave paintings, ancient Iberian villages,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0919813933
• ISBN13: 9780919813939
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

practical guide to the unknown

This isn't a book of Archeology: is a practical guide of the archeological sites in Spain form Stone Age to the Arab invasion. As Spain I think still has many unexplored sites, the author indicates those yet known though many times almost abandoned because investigation costs big money. For that he marks the routes, frequently far from populate cities because the distribution of the demography in Spain now is very irregular so, the interior is almost empty compared with the two big capitals and the Mediterranean coast. So this is as an archaeological Baedeker and no doubt the author has taken a big effort in finding, arriving and be oriented in difficult places, because Spanish ground is frequently very irregular and rough, not as France or Germany, countries much more explored and well indicated with warnings and posters until its minor findings. In Spain the pre or protohistoric places are located surely with full purpose in almost inaccessible locations, caves, etc. which need much further investigation. The period studied are enormous, from 3000 BC in the case of Tartessos, yet cited in the Bible, until about 1000 AC.