Katina Lillios is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. The recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, she is the author of numerous books on Iberian archaeology, including Heraldry for the Dead: The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia (2008).

'… the book is a good introduction to the peninsula's past for nonspecialists.' E. Delson, Choice

• 1. Setting the stage; 2. The first Iberians and last Neanderthals; 3. The first modern humans in Iberia; 4. The creation of new worlds; 5. The expansion of interregional contacts; 6. The emergence of ranked societies; 7. Archaeologies and histories of the Iberian past.

Katina Lillios is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. The recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, she is the author of numerous books on Iberian archaeology, including Heraldry for the Dead: The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia (2008).

'… the book is a good introduction to the peninsula's past for nonspecialists.' E. Delson, Choice

• 1. Setting the stage; 2. The first Iberians and last Neanderthals; 3. The first modern humans in Iberia; 4. The creation of new worlds; 5. The expansion of interregional contacts; 6. The emergence of ranked societies; 7. Archaeologies and histories of the Iberian past.

Katina Lillios is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. The recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, she is the author of numerous books on Iberian archaeology, including Heraldry for the Dead: The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia (2008).

'… the book is a good introduction to the peninsula's past for nonspecialists.' E. Delson, Choice

• 1. Setting the stage; 2. The first Iberians and last Neanderthals; 3. The first modern humans in Iberia; 4. The creation of new worlds; 5. The expansion of interregional contacts; 6. The emergence of ranked societies; 7. Archaeologies and histories of the Iberian past.