David Garcia i Rubert is Associate Professor of Archaeology and History, Faculty of Geography and History (Universitat de Barcelona). He has a BA in Archaeology (UB, 1999) and a Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona (2005). From 1997–2000, he was an FPI Fellow at the UB, and he has carried out many Postdoctoral research stays in Ecuador (Universidad Nacional del Chimborazo, Riobamba, 2010–2011) and the UK (University of Bristol, 2010). At the UB, he was an Associate Professor from 2004–2014 and Professor from 2014–today. He was also an Associate Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2013–2020). He studies the social, political, and economic structures of past human societies from a perspective that combines Archaeology and Anthropology. His main areas of study are the Mediterranean societies of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, especially those of the Iberian Peninsula (Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Iberian Culture).