Editing History of Spain (section)

==Prehistory==
{{Main|Prehistoric Iberia}}

[[File:Ethnographic Iberia 200 BCE.PNG|thumb|Ethnology of the Iberian Peninsula c. 200 BC]]
The earliest record of ''[[Homo]]'' [[genus]] representatives living in Western Europe has been found in the Spanish cave of [[Archaeological Site of Atapuerca|Atapuerca]]; a flint tool found there dates from 1.4&nbsp;million years ago, and early human [[fossils]] date to roughly 1.2&nbsp;million years ago.<ref name="BBC2007">{{cite news|title='First west Europe tooth' found|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6256356.stm|publisher=BBC News|date=30 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316120128/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6256356.stm|archive-date=March 16, 2018}}</ref> Modern humans in the form of [[Cro-Magnon]]s began arriving in the Iberian Peninsula from north of the [[Pyrenees]] some 35,000 years ago. The most conspicuous sign of prehistoric human settlements are the [[Cave painting|paintings]] in the northern Spanish cave of [[Altamira (cave)|Altamira]], which were done c. 15,000 [[Before Christ|BC]].<ref name="britannica prehistory">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Spain – History – Pre-Roman Spain – Prehistory|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/557573/Spain/214578/History#toc=toc70344|encyclopedia=Britannica Online Encyclopedia|year=2008}}</ref>

Archeological evidence in places like [[Los Millares]] and [[El Argar]] suggests developed cultures existed in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula during the late [[Neolithic]] and the [[Bronze Age]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chapman|first=Robert|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/495987647|title=Emerging complexity. Texte imprimé : the later prehistory of south-east Spain, Iberia and the west Mediterranean|date=1990|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-23207-4|oclc=495987647}}</ref> Around 2500 BC, the nomadic shepherds known as the [[Corded Ware culture|Corded ware culture]] conquered the peninsula using new technologies and horses while killing all local males according to DNA studies.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The invasion that wiped out every man from Spain 4,500 years ago|url=https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/03/inenglish/1538568010_930565.html|last=Ansede|first=Manuel|date=2018-10-04|website=EL PAÍS|access-date=2020-05-11}}</ref> Spanish prehistory extends to the pre-Roman [[European Iron Age|Iron Age]] cultures that controlled most of [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberia]]: those of the [[Iberians]], [[Celtiberians]], [[Tartessos|Tartessians]], [[Lusitanians]], and [[Vascones]] and trading settlements of [[Phoenicia]]ns, [[Carthaginians]], and [[Greek colonies|Greeks]] on the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] coast.