Helena Bonet Rosado
Helena Bonet Rosado (born 1953 in València) is a Spanish archaeologist who specializes in Iberian material culture. She has written two books and many articles, and she is the Director of the Prehistory Museum of Valencia.
She earned her PhD from the University of Valencia in 1993. In 1999 she became deputy director and head of the Prehistoric Research Department at the Prehistory Museum of Valencia, and was named Director in 2005.
Bonet Rosado, together with Consuelo Mata Parreño and Joan Bernabeu Auban, studied how Iberian polities in the Valencian Community were organized, arguing that oppida were connected in hierarchical ways. With Mata she also published a widely used typology of Iberian pottery: fine class A and coarse class B.
In 1995 she published the site of Edeta, near Llíria (modern Tossal de Sant Miguel). She argued Edeta was the capital of a large Iberian polity covering Camp de Túria, based on its size, impressive houses, specialized ceramics, mentions in historical accounts, and the surrounding watchtowers and roads. Bonet and Mata led excavations at Puntal dels Llops, a small hilltop fort near Olocau. They have also worked on La Seña (Villar del Arzobispo) and Castellet de Bernabé (Llíria). More recently they published on La Bastida de les Alcusses, near Moixent. Bonet has also written about the lives of women in Iberian prehistory, which was the focus of a 2006 exhibition at the Prehistory Museum.
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