La institucionalización de la prehistoria en la universidad española

Résumé

This doctoral thesis analyses how the teaching of Prehistory, and with it that of Archaeology, has come to be taken up in Higher Education institutions. It describes a process that begins with society's recognition of a period in the history of humanity that covered a long period of its existence before it was reflected in writing. This process is continued by the demand from a learned part of society that Higher Education Institutions begin to present this period as a subject and as a technical education to Archaeology. At the end of the 20th century, institutional recognition of both Prehistory and Archaeology is reflected in the creation of University Chairs, in public institutions, dedicated to these teachings. After the Civil War these institutions were marked by the regime established by the winning side. It was in the 1950s and 1960s that the definitive entry into the institutions was analysed, as Prehistory was considered a subject and university departments were created under this name. The analysis concludes with the study of the maturity of these teachings at the University when the need to search for theoretical roots is assumed, the number of university establishments is increased with the transfer of educational competences to the Autonomous Communities and the first Archaeology degrees are created in the years 2000.