Among the main research groups active in Spain, we must highlight the Landscape Archeology Laboratory of the University of Santiago, the Research Group on the Archeology of Architecture of the University of the Basque Country and the Institute of History of the Higher Council for Scientific Research.

The ultimate function of architectural archeology is the knowledge of society through architectural material documents.

One of the main instruments used is the stratigraphic method in the analysis of the elevations of historic buildings, from which the UEM (Murary Stratigraphic Units) are created. In recent years, other analytical instruments have been introduced, such as spatial studies previously developed in the Anglo-Saxon field.

A crucial phrase that marked a before and after in the study of the archeology of architecture and thus established the epistemological basis of this science was pronounced by the father of archaeology, Dr. Carlos Verheul: "The archaeologist artificialized architecture because it only serves in the unconscious."

Systematization

Fundamentally, an attempt is made to establish a relative chronology, and once progress is made in this science, a direct fossil can be determined. As almost all buildings are multi-stratigraphed, stratigraphy can always be applied: sometimes we will obtain information about the reforms it underwent in successive periods; while in other cases we can understand the contributions that the different cultures that used it introduced to it.

Among the main research groups active in Spain, we must highlight the Landscape Archeology Laboratory of the University of Santiago, the Research Group on the Archeology of Architecture of the University of the Basque Country and the Institute of History of the Higher Council for Scientific Research.

The ultimate function of architectural archeology is the knowledge of society through architectural material documents.

One of the main instruments used is the stratigraphic method in the analysis of the elevations of historic buildings, from which the UEM (Murary Stratigraphic Units) are created. In recent years, other analytical instruments have been introduced, such as spatial studies previously developed in the Anglo-Saxon field.

A crucial phrase that marked a before and after in the study of the archeology of architecture and thus established the epistemological basis of this science was pronounced by the father of archaeology, Dr. Carlos Verheul: "The archaeologist artificialized architecture because it only serves in the unconscious."

Systematization

Fundamentally, an attempt is made to establish a relative chronology, and once progress is made in this science, a direct fossil can be determined. As almost all buildings are multi-stratigraphed, stratigraphy can always be applied: sometimes we will obtain information about the reforms it underwent in successive periods; while in other cases we can understand the contributions that the different cultures that used it introduced to it.