Doctor in prehistory and archaeology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2005), Elías López-Romero is associate postdoctoral researcher since June 2009 at the Heritage Laboratory (Iegps-Csic) in Santiago de Compostela (Galice, Spain). His main research interest is landscape archaeology and megalithic monuments of the European Atlantic Façade. Since 2006 he has also initiated research in coastal archaeology and heritage in collaboration with French colleagues at the Cnrs. He has carried out several research stays: in England (University of Reading, 2001), Spain (Universidad de Sevilla, 2003), and France (Umr 6566 at Université de Rennes 1, 2002, 2006, and 2007).