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The Antequera megalithic site in the work of Georg and Vera Leisner: a review

2019; Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Volume: 2; Issue: 28 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12795/spal.2019.i28.15

2255-3924

Leonardo García Sanjuán, Coronada Mora Molina, Martin Bartelheim,

Archaeological and Geological Studies

The Antequera dolmens site (Malaga, Spain), included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since July 2016, has a research history of almost 200 years that goes back to the work of Rafael Mitjana y Ardison in the 1840s.After the discovery of the Viera dolmen and El Romeral tholos, in 1903 and 1904 respectively, the research of the great megalithic site received a renewed impulse.Published in 1943, the first volume of the corpus of Iberian megalithic monuments by Georg and Vera Leisner (Die Megalithgräber der Iberischen Halbinsel, Erster Teil: Der Süden) was to become the most detailed study of the Antequera site during the second half of the 20th century, despite the fact that being published in German limited its penetration among the Spanish scholarship.Here, we review the importance of the work of the Leisners to understand the Antequera megaliths in light of the results of the research that has been undertaken in the last 15 years.Many of the issues raised by the German couple continue to be fully pertinent within the context of today's research on these monuments.In addition, to facilitate future access to their work, this paper is accompanied by full translations into English and Spanish of the Leisners's text on the Antequera megaliths.