The archives of iberian archaeology: One archaeology for two Spains 1926 1915 1897 1890 1863 The Iberians and the Celts built the Spanish nature. Who wouldn’t see their genius since Sagunto to Zaragoza, since Hannibal to Napoleon? What a unique people¡ Modesto Lafuente, 1860 It must have been understood by now that I view the Basque people as an untouched remnant of the great Iberian nation… This supports my view that the Iberian 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 of the generations that created the Catalonian spirit Enric Prat de la Riba, 1906 The descriptions as barbarism and even savagery written by foreign writers hurt our dignity as Spaniards. the shyness of Spanish authors eager to obtain from other 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’ the typically Spanish art of pre-Roman times; this could be called, in all propriety, ‘Hispanic’ Manuel Gómez-Moreno, 1922 Now we can imagine this ‘Dama de Elche’ escorted by 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 peoples as 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 wish that other writers remained faithful to the defense of the Iberian people, the most typical and representative of Spain, now in danger of disappearing at the hands of the pro-European fashion. Domingo Fletcher, 1949 1937 1941 1956 1931