Miquel Tarradell was first an archaeologist in
Spanish Morocco, where he delved into the ancient history of
Mauritania Tingitana, both in Roman and Punic times, and then went on to teach in Spain, focusing thereafter on archaeological topics in Spain. In 1950 he published El Periplo de Hannon y los lixitas, in Mauritania, no. 268. As an archaeologist he excavated in the city of Lixus, publishing in 1959,
Lixus: historia de la ciudad, guía de las ruinas y de la sección de Lixus del Museo Arqueológico de Tetuán. In 1960 he published the Punic
Morocco and in 1962 with
Luis Pericot Garcia) published a Manual of African prehistory. He was also interested in the Roman city of
Tamuda, which was excavated between 1949 and 1955, publishing an overview of the excavation in 1956. During his stay in Morocco he served as director of the Service of Archaeology of the protectorate, where organized and published the First Archaeological Congress of Spanish Morocco in Tetouan in 1953. He was a disciple of Francesc Soldevila,
Jordi Rubió and Pere Bohigas at the Catalan University Studies. He was one of the founders in 1946 of the clandestine magazine of Catalan culture
Ariel. He directed the Archaeological Research Service of
Granada and the Archaeological Service of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco. During this period, he carried out excavations in the Roman site of Lixus. He was Professor of
Archaeology at the Universities of
Valencia in 1956, where he created the journal Papeles del Laboratorio de Arqueología de Valencia. In
Barcelona, he was Professor of Archaeology, Epigraphy and Numismatics, since 1970. During his stay in Valencia, he worked in the Roman and Iberian sites of the
Valencian Community, together with other university archaeologists such as
Luis Pericot, Enric A. Llobretat and Gabriela Martín Ávila, and collaborated with the SIP together with Domingo Fletcher and Enrique Pla. Very committed to the recovery of democratic freedoms and Catalan culture, he supported the singer
Raimon from the very beginning. He was awarded the
Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes in 1977. He was also a member of the Standing Committee of the International Association of Prehistoric Sciences and advisor to the Council of Archaeology of the Generalitat de Catalunya and director of the history magazine in
Catalan Fonaments. He was a member of the
Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, on the Board of Trustees of the new Revista de Catalunya, and of the
Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana. == Legacy ==