Ricardio Elia and Amalia Pérez-Juez co publish an article with other colleagues

Ricardo Elia and Amalia Pérez-Juez have just published, alongside other researchers from Spain, the article “Menorca Talayótica: Prehistoric and Current Communities – New Ways of Understanding” in the book Creating Participatory Dialogue in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Interpretation: Multinational Perspectives (Springer, 2022). The paper addresses the relationship between archaeological heritage and its different audiences on the island. Menorca is part of the Balearic Islands, Spain, located in the center of Western Mediterranean. Within a small territory, it has preserved a high number of archaeological sites, primarily from the Bronze and Iron Ages (Fig. 1). Popular explanations of prehistoric Menorcan remains attribute their origin to unknown people, such as “the Moors” or even giants. However, these archaeological sites are part of the landscape of the current communities, which have developed emotional ties to them. Archaeological sites are part of their daily life, and they are viewed as pieces of their own heritage, tradition, and landscape.