The archives of iberian archaeology:One archaeology for two Spains
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The Iberians and the Celtsbuilt the Spanish nature. Who wouldn’t see their genius since
Sagunto to Zaragoza, sinceHannibal to Napoleon?What a unique people¡Modesto Lafuente, 1860
It must have been understood by nowthat I view the Basque people as an
untouched remnant of the great Iberiannation… This supports my view that theIberian people ruled all over Spain in the
most remotes times.Manuel de Góngora, 1868
Those people are our ancestors,that Iberian ethnicity is the first ofthe generations that created the
Catalonian spiritEnric Prat de la Riba, 1906
The descriptions as barbarism and even savagerywritten by foreign writers hurt our dignity as Spaniards.
the shyness of Spanish authors eager to obtain fromother countries the charity of some artistic influence
Offended our pride as a race.Juan Cabré, 1919
The Iberian civilization of the IIIrd and IInd centuries b.C., despite its common elements that seem to endow the
peninsula with a great cultural unity, is in fact a mosaic of survivals and local features.
Pere Bosch-Gimpera, 1932
It is, unfair to call ‘Iberian’ thetypically Spanish art of pre-Romantimes; this could be called, in all
propriety, ‘Hispanic’Manuel Gómez-Moreno, 1922
Now we can imagine this ‘Dama de Elche’ escortedby a people standing around her as a bundle and a
phalanx to repel any invading attempt.Giménez Caballero, 1941
What we historically call ‘Iberians’ and archaeologically‘Iberian culture’ is neither race nor culture, as it is one and
the same Hispanic ethnicity in which, at most, a higher proportion of pre-Arian elements may be recognized together with, as is logical, some weak Mediterranean contributions.
Julio Martínez Santa-Olalla, 1941
The school of experts in prehistory of Barcelona and the Basque school of experts in prehistory and ethnology believed that it was better,
maybe because it was more to their liking, to refer to the Spanish peoplesas if they were still different and not united, instead of admitting
how all of them were fatally pushed towards that unity of Hispanic men that,may they want or not, is the historical truth.
Martín Almagro Basch, 1950
We end [this piece of writing] in fervent wishthat other writers remained faithful to the
defense of the Iberian people, the most typicaland representative of Spain, now in danger of
disappearing at the hands of thepro-European fashion.Domingo Fletcher, 1949
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