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Miguel Martín Fernández de Velasco was born in Valladolid (Spain, Europe) the July 18, 1927. Is the oldest of seven brothers and sisters. In 1934 (at the age of seven years), his family moved to Montoro (Córdoba, Spain), where his parents (José Martín and Concepción Fernández de Velasco), were owning a farm.

He loses his father at he beginning of the Spanish civil war of 1936. After many frights and incidents, the rest of the family returns to Valladolid, where they are established definitively early 1937.

There he studies Secondary Education in San José College. Later studies Law Degree at the Valladolid University, studies that completes with the qualification of Discinction in a record time of three years.

In 1952 marries with Marina Jiménez Bleye, beautiful palentine (palentine: natural from Palencia province. Spain, Europe), Romanesque Philology Degree, whom he would have six sons.

Following the familiar tradition, he sets up an experimental farm where there are realized tests of new growing and birds selection. The pure bird lines developed in this farm compete with these imported from U.S.A.

In this time, he founds the magazine Club del Campo (Agriculture Club) destined to serve as communication way between Spanish farmers. The magazine, that has an edition of 100,000 copies at month, is free distributed.

Later he exercises the law during several years, profession that leaves to brings other personal projects, like the creation of several urbanizations.

Miguel Martín is a person full of interests. Between his multiple hobbies it can be cited the fight, the fishing, the falconry, and in general any activity related with the outdoor life.

He is an enthusiast admirer of the Romanesque Art, the Prehistory, and the American History.

Between other skills, he had developed these of find underground waters with a pendulum help (dowsing)... skill that serves the same to mark wells (and convert a dry ground in a irrigated land), that... to find the goshawks that he loses during a hunting!

These interests had led him to cross great part of the Spanish geography, acumulating an endless number of personal experiences, anecdotes, and adventures.

In his falconry interest, Miguel Martín has gone so far as to lower self by big rocky walls with a cord, to catch falcon rearing, that he was training later. He has passed one or twice nights climbed up a tree, in the middle of a forest, because the wolfs were looking excessively clinging to sleep on the tent. And he has come across the bear in the middle of the palentine mountain...

At the point to will be a half-century, Miguel Martín suffers to slipped disk. As prescribed by his doctor, he tries to avoid the operation doing rest on bed. Unable to be hand on hand, although on the bed, he takes advantage of these time to write Peñagrande, where he paints faithfully the nature and the people of the palentine mountain, and where he narrates (covertly) big part of his adventures. He finances personally the publication and distribution, of the first edition of this book. As anecdotal detail, we’ll mention that, in the andalusian hunting, Peñagrande was part of the hunting price, together the place, the assistant, and the lunch.

As a result of this book, he begins a productive literary career, in which Miguel Martín expresses his knowledges, hobbies, and interests, crossing ways so varied as literary for young people, poetry, historical novel, traditional novel, and even scientific book. All of his work has an autobiographical marked stamp.

Only he can write books as Peñagrande, Dardo y Huracán, Perdigonadas, Homo or Réquiem por el soldado Cristóbal de Olea.

His assets include several Spanish literary prizes, like the 1983’ Lazarillo National Award of Literary for Young People. Also he has achieved important prizes in the audiovisual field, which he contributes with the texts.

He has imparted great number of lectures for adults, with subjects so varied like Etology, Prehistory, Falconry, Fishing, Hunting, Romanesque Art, or Genetic. Also he has had innumerable Meetings with the author, with the young readers of his works,

In 1993 he traveled to New York, invited by the Cervantes Institute from these city, to impart a series of conferences to the bilingual teachers of the city.

Between the surprising facets of this vallisoletane (vallisoletane: natural from Valladolid city. Spain, Europe), it is also necesary to mention his passionate interest for the Prehistory and the Archaeology.

In 1979, leveling lands, he warns the presence of Inferior Paleolithic stone tools. As a result of these found, he begins an investigation work, which would culminate with the discovery of a Paleolithic culture in the Castilla y León zone (Spain, Europe), unknown until now by the science.

This find might suppose a change in all the Prehistory books, which present the Inferior Paleolithic men (2.5 millions years old) as an animal that walks upright, and make tools only by percussion. From this discovery emerges that, at least the Middle Pleistocene man (750,000 to 120,000 years BC), have a reflexive thought, lavishes the art, and cultivates a complex mystic. By this reason, Miguel Martín embarks in the ungrateful obligation to announce it to the Administration, and the scientific community.

As happened in his time to Marcelino Sautuola (discoverer of Altamira Caves, who died without his find was recognized), the official statements deny him by the moment his support and his interest.

Actually, Miguel Martín, already retired, writes and goes deeply into the study of his amazing archaeological discovery.