Hoces de Bronce Y Martillos de Piedra

"Did communism exist in the prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula? The story of the anonymous people who built the ancient stones of the dolmens of the Iberian Peninsula has not yet been told. They were men and women surprisingly similar to us, and the new techniques of current archaeology allow us to recover for the first time the fascinating subtleties of their social and political life. In Hoces de piedra, martillos de bronce, archaeologist Rodrigo Villalobos immerses us in a pioneering journey into Iberian prehistory. We will contemplate our most remote history in an absolutely innovative light and discover the ways in which our ancestors organized their existence. Whether in democratic communalist societies or under the yoke of authentic warrior aristocracies that rose up as rulers of the first archaic states, our ancestors played a leading role in an exciting story, in which episodes of cooperative work and mutual support coexisted with situations of exploitation, oppression and domination. Stone Sickles, Bronze Hammers is an innovative and essential vision of Spain's prehistoric past.

Rodrigo Villalobos García holds a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Valladolid (2015) and has worked professionally in both technical archaeology and research. His field of specialization is the social archaeology of Neolithic farming communities and the beginnings of the Metal Age in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula. In recent years he has co-directed archaeological projects on Chalcolithic mines and artisan workshops for variscite ornaments in Zamora, on megalithism in the north of Palencia and Burgos and on the Chalcolithic walled settlement of El Pico de la Mora, in Valladolid. In addition to this, he is a secondary school teacher in Cantabria and disseminates prehistoric social archaeology through the blog Las Gafas de Childe