Archaeological cultures in Spain

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archaeological culture

The Magdalenian (also Madelenian; ) is a technocomplex of the Late Upper Paleolithic in parts of Western and Central Europe. It dates from around 21,000 to 13,000 years Before Present. It is named after the type site of Abri de la Madeleine, a rock shelter () located in the Vézère valley of Tursac in Dordogne, France.

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The Azilian is a Mesolithic industry of the Franco-Cantabrian region of northern Spain and Southern France. It dates approximately 10,000–12,500 years ago. Diagnostic artifacts from the culture include projectile points (microliths with rounded retouched backs), crude flat bone harpoons and pebbles with abstract decoration. The latter were first found in the River Arize at the type-site for the culture, the ''Grotte du Mas d'Azil'' at Le Mas-d'Azil in the French Pyrenees (illustrated, now with a modern road running through it). These are the main type of Azilian art, showing a great reduction

The Tardenoisian (or Beuronian) is an archaeological culture of the Mesolithic/Epipaleolithic period from northern France and Belgium. Similar cultures are known further east in central Europe, parts of Britain. and west across Spain. It is named after the type site at Fère-en-Tardenois in the Tardenois region in France, where E. Taté first discovered its characteristic artifacts in 1885.

thumb|Talaiot in Capocorb Vell, Mallorca thumb|Talaiot at Son Serra, Mallorca thumb|Main entrance to Ses Païsses talaiotic settlement, Mallorca

Chalcolithic occupation site in Spain

archaeological culture

prehistoric culture on the Gymnesian Islands in the western Mediterranean Sea

Period of approximately 1300-700 BC in Europe

cultural property in Cardeñosa, Spain

archaeological culture of coastal Iberia

Bronze Age culture in Portugal

thumb|300px|The motillas during the Iberian Bronze Age The motillas were the early settlements of La Mancha (Spain) belonging to the Middle Bronze Age, and connected to the Bronze of Levante culture. These were human-made hills atop of which are placed fortified settlements. Their height is usually between four and five meters and the motillas are separated from each other by a distance of four to five kilometers. Their construction started  BCE and they were used for about 1000 years.