Iron Age defensive systems are complex structures formed by a large range of varied components defining its morphology, technics, functionality and efficiency in defence. Among the elements forming part of a defensive system the towers, the object of our study. Their origins go backwards till the arrival of the Phoenicians in the early 8th century BC who spread their use towards the local populations inland, this paper focuses on their formal and constructive characteristics of the Iron Age towers and their context in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe. The territory of study is the region of Montes de Leon, between the northern sub-plateau and the Atlantic façade, where the presence of about 50 towers could mean either the adoption of a for...
International audienceThe existence of an internal timberwork architecture in Iberian Iron Age rampa...
Santa Pola belonged to the shire of Elche one century ago. Currently, there is a big quantity of tow...
[EN] The towers of Sant Vicent and Torrenostra are part of the defensive network of watchtowers buil...
International audienceRecent finds and researches on Iron Age walls of the Meseta and the Atlantic p...
La Edad del Hierro presenta una gran cantidad de yacimientos arqueológicos en la zona de Zamora, Leó...
The study of the operative capacities of the military architecture of the Middel Ages shows a wide r...
The Western Mountains of Granada are mainly known in medieval times for the presence of a series of ...
El castellum de Tamuda, ubicado en las proximidades de la actual Tetuán (Marruecos), supone uno de l...
Three occupation levels dating from the Firs Iron Age have been registered in the Cabezo de la Cruz....
With this work I pretend to expose a reality in existence in the Iberian culture as is the construct...
Zamorans Iron Age forts show basic natural defenses that are complemented with all types of human de...
The archaeological site of Alto de La Garma, in Omoño, Ribamontán al Monte, is an Early Iron Age lit...
A partir de las publicaciones existentes hasta este momento se realiza una revisión historiográfica...
Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica, JIA (3as : 5-7 de mayo 2010 : Universitat Autònom...
En lo últimos tiempos es un hecho que los estudios castellológicos han sufrido una renovación en sus...
International audienceThe existence of an internal timberwork architecture in Iberian Iron Age rampa...
Santa Pola belonged to the shire of Elche one century ago. Currently, there is a big quantity of tow...
[EN] The towers of Sant Vicent and Torrenostra are part of the defensive network of watchtowers buil...
International audienceRecent finds and researches on Iron Age walls of the Meseta and the Atlantic p...
La Edad del Hierro presenta una gran cantidad de yacimientos arqueológicos en la zona de Zamora, Leó...
The study of the operative capacities of the military architecture of the Middel Ages shows a wide r...
The Western Mountains of Granada are mainly known in medieval times for the presence of a series of ...
El castellum de Tamuda, ubicado en las proximidades de la actual Tetuán (Marruecos), supone uno de l...
Three occupation levels dating from the Firs Iron Age have been registered in the Cabezo de la Cruz....
With this work I pretend to expose a reality in existence in the Iberian culture as is the construct...
Zamorans Iron Age forts show basic natural defenses that are complemented with all types of human de...
The archaeological site of Alto de La Garma, in Omoño, Ribamontán al Monte, is an Early Iron Age lit...
A partir de las publicaciones existentes hasta este momento se realiza una revisión historiográfica...
Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica, JIA (3as : 5-7 de mayo 2010 : Universitat Autònom...
En lo últimos tiempos es un hecho que los estudios castellológicos han sufrido una renovación en sus...
International audienceThe existence of an internal timberwork architecture in Iberian Iron Age rampa...
Santa Pola belonged to the shire of Elche one century ago. Currently, there is a big quantity of tow...
[EN] The towers of Sant Vicent and Torrenostra are part of the defensive network of watchtowers buil...