Martín Almagro Gorbea (born 5 January 1946 in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

) is a Spanish prehistorian. He is a professor in

prehistory Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use ...

, Ph.D. in

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by the "

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" with extraordinary prize. Amalgro Gorbea was elected to ''medalla nº 11'' of the Real Academia de la Historia on 17 February 1995 and he took up his seat on 17 November 1996. Perpetual keeper of antiquities of the Real Academia de la Historia. In 1998 he became the Director of the National Archaeological Museum succeeding María del Carmen Pérez Díe. Majoring in the early history of the

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and

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, Iberian and Celtic,

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, process of

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, Museology, Excavations and Cultural Heritage.

Academic Curriculum

* Director of the Archaeological Museum of Ibiza.1969-70 * Professor, Department of Prehistory at the Complutense University.1968-76 * Keeper of the National Archaeological Museum.1970-76 * Professor and Director of the

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.1976-80 * Director of the Spanish School of History and Archeology in Rome.1979-83 * Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Doctor in History.1981 - * Academician of the

Royal Academy of History The Real Academia de la Historia (RAH, 'Royal Academy of History') is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the diff ...

, where he serves as ''Anticuario perpetuo'' (keeper of antiquities).1996- * Director of the National Archaeological Museum.1998-99 *commissioner of ** The Celts and Vettones exhibition (Ávila, 2001) **

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, the legacy of

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(Zaragoza-Mérida, 1998), ** Treasures of the "Real Academia de la Historia" (Madrid, 2001).

Other

* Academician of the Academy of Art and History of San Damaso, his inaugural lecture, was "España desde la prehistoria". * Member of the Permanent Council of the Union Internationale des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques. * Member of the

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, (read his speech income in this society in 2008), 'The origins of the

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s'.

Magazines and publications

Founder-Director of the magazine Complutum, of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Saguntum of the University of Valencia and currently directs Bibliotheca Archaeologica Hispana, Antiquaria Hispanica (born 1999), Catalog Cabinet of Antiquities (born 1998) and the Bibliotheca Hispana numismatica (born 2005), of the Royal Academy of History.

Books

* Los orígenes de los vascoshttp://www.ua.es/personal/juan.abascal/Almagro_2008_Los_Origenes_de_los_Vascos.pdf
/ref>. Martín Almagro Gorbea (aut.). DELEGACIÓN EN CORTE. Departamento de Publicaciones, 2008. * La necrópolis de Medellín. I-III (Bibliotheca Archaeologica Hispana 26,1-3) Madrid, 2006-2008. (editor, director y coauthor con J. Jiménez Ávila, A. J. Lorrio, A. Mederos y M. Torres). * Medallas Españolas. Catálogo del Gabinete de Antigüedades de la Real Academia de la Historia. Madrid, 2005 (695 p. + 32 láms.) (editor y coautor con Mª Cruz Pérez Alcorta y T. Moneo). * Prehistoria. Antigüedades Españolas I. Real Academia de la Historia, Catálogo del Gabinete de Antigüedades. Madrid, 2004, 451 p. (editor y coautor con D. Casado, F. Fontes, A. Mederos, y M. Torres). * Segobriga. Guía del Parque Arqueológico. Madrid 55 p. (con Juan Manuel Abascal y Rosario Cebrián) * Epigrafía Prerromana. Real Academia de la Historia, Catálogo del Gabinete de Antigüedades, Madrid, 2003, 544 p. * Santuarios urbanos en el mundo ibérico. Martín Almagro Gorbea, Teresa Moneo. Real Academia de la Historia, 2000. * Las fíbulas de jinete y de caballito: aproximación a las élites ecuestres y su expansión en la Hispania céltica. Martín Almagro Gorbea, Mariano Torres Ortiz. Institución Fernando el Católico, 1999. * El rey-lobo de La Alcudia de Ilici. Alicante, 1999. 52 p. MU-2383-1999 * Las fíbulas de jinete y de caballito: aproximación a las élites ecuestres y su expansión en la Hispania céltica. Martín Almagro Gorbea, Mariano Torres Ortiz. Institución Fernando el Católico, 1999. * Segóbriga y su conjunto arqueológico. Martín Almagro Gorbea, Juan Manuel Abascal Palazón. Real Academia de la Historia, 1999. * Archivo del Gabinete de Antigüedades: catálogo e índices. Martín Almagro Gorbea, Jesús R. Alvarez Sanchís. Real Academia de la Historia, 1998. * Excavaciones en el cerro Ecce Homo: (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid). Martín Almagro Gorbea, Dimas Fernández-Galiano. Madrid: Diputación Provincial. Servicios de Extensión Cultural y Divulgación, D.L. 1980. * El bronce final y el periodo orientalizante en Extremadura. Martín Almagro Gorbea. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto Español de Prehistoria, 1977. * Los campos de túmulos de Pajaroncillo (Cuenca). Excavaciones Arqueológicas en España 83, Madrid 1974, 131 pág. * La necrópolis de "Las Madrigueras". Carrascosa del Campo (Cuenca) (Bibliotheca Praehistorica Hispana X). Madrid, 1969. 165 p. * Estudios de Arte rupestre Nubio. I. Sites in East Nile riverside, Nag Kolorodna and Kars Ibrim. (Memorias de la Misión Arqueológica Española en Egipto X), Madrid 1968 (with M. Almagro).

Works summary

Magazine articles (351) Contributions in collective works (188) Books (20) Thesis Directed (39) Coordination (58 publications)

References

External links

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