The new "plec de lectura" of the Xarxa de Biblioteques de Menorca is dedicated to Lluís Plantalamor, one of the archaeologists who promoted studies on the Talayotic period in Menorca. Lluís Plantalamor Massanet was born in Palma in 1949, where he began his training and later moved to Barcelona, where he graduated in Ancient History (1973). Years later, after settling in Menorca, he obtained his doctorate with a thesis entitled La arquitectura prehistórica y protohistórica de Menorca y su marco cultural (Prehistoric and protohistoric architecture in Menorca and its cultural framework) (1990). This year the Xarxa de Biblioteques de Menorca produced some triptychs dedicated to key figures that led to the declaration of World Heritage.
In 1974 he moved to Menorca to take over the direction of the Museu de Menorca until his retirement in 2014, with a brief period between 1976 and 1977 when he was curator of the Museu de Girona. Lluís Plantalamor's professional period at the Museu de Menorca was initially marked by a change of venue, from Can Mercadal to the convent of Sant Francesc, and later by the opening of the permanent exhibition. These have also been intense years in his research work with archaeological excavations at many sites on the island, such as So na Caçana, Trepucó, Torelló, Son Mercer de Baix, Biniai Nou, Son Olivaret and Cornia Nou, among others.
His field of research has focused on Menorca's prehistoric period, mainly on its first settlements (Chalcolithic and Bronze Age). His work in the elaboration of planimetries of prehistoric monuments and as the author of the drawings of the materials recovered in archaeological interventions should also be highlighted. It is necessary to consider him as one of the major promoters of studies on the Talayotic period in Menorca.