Fourteen essays illustrating the latest research on the archaeology of Iberia from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The papers are: the island filter model revisited ( J. M. V. García ); fortified sites in southern Italy and Spain during the Neolithic and Copper ages ( J. C. M. de la Cruz ); transition from the Copper to the Bronze age ( Katina T. Lilios ); Bronze age survey in northern Spain ( A. Gilman et al ); development of cultural complexity in the western Mediterranean ( A. H. Gonzalo ); aspects of Talayotic culture ( M. Fernandez-Miranda ); prehistoric subsistence and monuments in Mallorca ( R. Chapman and A. Grant ), contact between the sea peoples and Tartessos? ( M. B. Galan ); the west of Iberia ( M. Priego ); religious aspects of Phoenician-Punic colonization ( M. B. Deamos ); Phoenician gold in the western Mediterranean ( Alicia P. Caveda ); funerary evidence for interactions betweeen Punic colonies and native Iberians ( Teresa C. Brunet ); Sanctuaries of the Iberian peninsula ( Lourdes Prados-Torreira ); the Iberians in Sardinia ( J. A. S. Velasco ).