\"La guerra y el armamento ibérico: estado actual\" F. Quesada Sanz (2016) In:R. Graells, D. Marzoli (eds.) Armas de la Hispania prerromana.RGZM Tagungen, Band 24, Mainz 2016, pp. 165-192

War and Weapons of the Iberians: Current StatusIn this study we systematically review the new research undertaken into weapons and war in the context of IberianCulture since the 1996 Seminar on War in the Iberian and Celtiberian World that was held in the Casa de Velázquezand published in 2002. This meeting has been expressly designed to continue and update the work of its predecessor.We have reflected in greater depth on the actual nature of the documentation available and its limitations and possibilities,with particular attention to differences in space and time. We have also evaluated the problem of survivals ingrave goods that might mask the evolution of weapon types. Considerable advance has also been made in the studyof the beginning and end of the period, i. e., on the formative phase of the Iberian panoply in the First Iron Age andthe variations that occurred in the era of Republican Rome.New types of weapons have been discovered in the Iberian world and progress has been made in various aspects ofTypology in types such as helmets, disc cuirasses, and swords from the early Iberian world and greaves. Comprehensiveattempts have been made to classify horse harnesses and spurs, but metallurgical and technological analyses, despitesome specific publications, still remain to be done, although progress has been made, particularly on the subject ofartificial coatings with magnetite. However, major advances have been made in relation to weapons from contextspreviously little studied, such as settlements and shrines, because the focus of the research has in the past been mainlyon cemeteries.The first all-inclusive models have been proposed for the forms and conceptions of war in the Iberian world, very differentfrom the old primitivist conceptions. This is also true of a new study of the tactics and training of armies: theold model of the »Hispanic guerrilla« has been superseded, and a great deal of work has been done on the cavalry. Amajor debate has been taking place on siege warfare and the role of fortifications, and in recent years new hypotheseshave been proposed on Hispanic mercenary forces in the Mediterranean.Finally, new forms of research have emerged, such as gender studies relating to contexts in which weapons appear,and associating their study with osteological analysis. The archaeology of the battlefields of the Second Punic Waris providing new results and perspectives, and so too is urban archaeology in contexts of violent destruction, whichdocument the effects of war on non-combatants.