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Criado-Boado, Felipe

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Felipe Criado-Boado is an archaeologist specializing in landscape archaeology, archaeological theory, and heritage studies. He was born in 1960 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), in whose university he graduated (1982), obtained a PhD (1989) and taught until 2000, when he became research professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He spent an academic year in Cambridge (1986–1987), at the time of the emergence of post-processual theory. At present, he is the director of the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) of the CSIC and since 2015 president of the European Association of Archaeologists (Fig. 1).

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Further Reading

  • Criado-Boado, F. 2012. Arqueológicas. La Razón Perdida. Barcelona: Bellaterra.

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  • Criado-Boado, F., and V. Villoch. 2000. Monumentalizing landscape: From present perception to the past meaning of Galician megalithism (North-West Iberian Peninsula). European Journal of Archaeology 3 (2): 188–216.

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  • Hernando, A. 2001. Arqueología de la Identidad. Madrid: Akal.

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González-Ruibal, A. (2020). Criado-Boado, Felipe. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2594-1

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