De arqueología menorquina: Maria Lluïsa Serra Belabre y los círculos talayóticos de Sant Vicenç d’Alcaidús (Alaior, Menorca). – Menorcan archaeology: Maria Lluïsa Serra Belabre, the talayotic circles and Sant Vicenç d’Alcaidús (Alaior, Minorca)

Abstract

Maria Lluïsa Serra Belabre (1911 – 1967) was a Minorcan archaeologist who devoted her life to the cultural heritage of the island where she was born. Director of the Cultural Centre of Mahon (Minorca), among many other positions she held, she studied the history of Menorca tirelessly through their archives, libraries and archaeological sites. In this paper, her research will be addressed only in the field of Archaeology of Balearic Islands, especially in its analysis of the architectural forms of prehistoric island communities, through their numerous conferences and papers published in journals. Of all the sites in which she intervened, he highlights Sant Vicenç d’Alcaidús (Alaior, Minorca), stands out as the interpretive key to her theories on Talayotic houses.

Keywords

• Archaeology
• Historiography
• Architecture
• Social sciences research
• European history