The Iberian peninsula has a particular archaeology within Europe. In the
Middle Ages Christians, Muslims and Jews coexisted in towns and in the
countryside. But the country was divided between the Christian kingdoms
in the north and Muslim al-Andalus in the south. Both areas changed in
many ways as the Christians gradually expanded their territory and were
finally victorious in 1492. This book focuses on differences and
similarities as well as the interchanges between the cultures which
produced much of the heritage of present-day Spain.
This book is the first modern survey in English of medieval archaeology
in Spain, and it reveals the extraordinary development of Spanish
archaeological work after the creation of regional governments
(Comunidades Autónomas) in the 1980s.