Pelayo Quintero

Pelayo Quintero Atauri was one of the fathers of Spanish and Moroccan Archeology, a researcher whose work was developed in antiquarian times between the 19th and 20th centuries. The work and the different profiles of Pelayo Quintero tell us about archaeological treasures, evocative ruins, exotic mountains and landscapes, times of war and espionage, and an incipient archeology as a discipline. He was a contemporary of the most prestigious European and American archaeologists such as Petrie, Delattre, Bingham, Carter, Mallowan..., and as they carried out his work in conditions that may seem impregnated with the naïve romanticism of the late eighties and early nine hundred. His work and his work, enormous, must be considered and valued from the perspective of the time in which his work was developed, with a methodology typical of that time and to which the contemporary researchers of the Quintero himself. In Cádiz Pelayo Quintero will develop most of his life and work, but the study of his figure would not be understood without his childhood and youth in Uclés, a town in the province of Cuenca, his studies in Madrid and his arrival in northern Morocco. , where the fertile last years of his extensive and intense personal and professional life would take place in the difficult context of the Spanish postwar period and World War II.