Juan Antonio Quirós is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of the Basque Country, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology (University College London), and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College (University of Oxford, 2018). He is director of the ‘Heritage and Cultural Landscapes Research Group’ of the University of the Basque Country and the 'Rural Medieval Research Group', CSIC-UPV/EHU. His principal interests lie in the archaeology study of landscapes, the archaeology of rural communities, Mediterranean Archaeology, Archaeology of Architectures, and the study of Social Complexity. Besides, he is very interested in a multi-proxy and multidisciplinary approach to cultural resources. Some of this recent works included Arqueología de una comunidad campesina medieval: Zornoztegi (Bilbao, 2019); Longhouses, house biography and social complexity in Early Medieval Northwestern Iberia (Arqueología de la Arquitectura 2017); Local identities and desertions in Late Medieval period (Reti Medievali, 2017); Social complexity in Early Medieval rural communities (Oxford, 2016); and Agrarian Archaeology in Early Medieval Europe (Quaternary International 346, 2014). Currently, he is preparing a book about the Archaeology of Medieval Peasantry.