Preface

[EN]This volume represents a significant step forward in promoting the dissemination work done by the Archeology of Built Space Research Team from the Landscape Archaeology Laboratory, Padre Sarmiento Institute of Galician Studies (CSIC-Xunta de Galicia) in Santiago de Compostela (now Institute of Heritage Sciences, Incipit). This work focused attention on the design of a renewed theoretical-methodological device on which a comprehensive Archeology of Architecture could be based (Mañana et al. 2002). It also revolved around the organization during the Annual Meetings of European Association of Archaeologists of consecutive sessions related to this subject. The previous volume in BAR International Series collects the contributions presented in Lisbon 2000 and Esslingen am Neckar 2001. Afterwards, two sessions were again organized in San Petersburg 2003 and Lyon 2004. The interest in this line of work became evident in both sessions, with outstanding contributions from several European specialists, who at the same time, focused attention on chronological-cultural matters spanning the period from the Neolithic to the Modern Age.