Helena Bonet Rosado

Helena Bonet Rosado (born 1953, in València) is a Spanish archaeologist who specialises in Iberian material culture.

She has published two books and numerous articles and chapters on Iberian archaeology.

She is currently the Director of the Prehistory Museum of Valencia.

Bonet Rosado received her doctorate from the University of Valencia in 1993.

In 1995, Bonet published the site of ancient Edeta, modern Tossal de Sant Miguel, near the town of Llíria.

Bonet argued that Edeta was the capital of a large Iberian polity covering the Camp de Túria, based on its exceptional size (up to 15 hectares), large houses with rich furnishing, specialised ceramic production, appearance in the historical accounts, and the surrounding systems of watchtowers or smaller hillforts and arterial roads.

Bonet and Mata led the excavation of Puntal dels Llops, a small Iberian hilltop fort near modern Olocau.

Further excavations include the small Iberian sites of La Seña (Villar del Arzobispo) and Castellet de Bernabé (Llíria).

Bonet and colleagues have more recently published on the ancient oppidum of La Bastida de les Alcusses, near modern Moixent.

In 1999, she was appointed deputy director and head of the Prehistoric research department at the Prehistory Museum of Valencia.

She was appointed Director in 2005.

Bonet, along with Consuelo Mata Parreño and Joan Bernabeu Auban, published early work on the organisation of Iberian polities in the Valencian Community, arguing for hierarchical relationships between oppida in the region.

Bonet and Mata also published a typology of Iberian fine (class A) and coarse (class B) pottery, which is widely used by Iberian archaeologists.

Bonet has also published on the lives of women in Iberian prehistory, which was also the subject of a 2006 exhibition at the Prehistory Museum.