We offer with this paper the archaeological activity carried out in Cordoba during the period in which Enrique Romero de Torres, the first of a series of provincial comisarios, directed the Comisaria de Excavaciones. A period, the first postwar, marked by poverty and by the purge suffered by members of the local intelligentsia linked to Archaeology, such Samuel de los Santos Gener, who succeeded Romero de Torres as comisario. Both scholars represented the Comisaria General de Excavaciones Arqueologicas in Cordoba, a very controversial institution due to the egotism of its Director, Julio Martinez Santa-Olalla, and by the amateurism of ist members, holders of an honorary position that entailed an enormous amount of work. Beside the papers published by the aforementioned scholars, this research would not have been possible if it had not been for two primary documentary sources: the Romero de Torres family's archive and the Registro de hallazgos arqueologicos en la provincia de Cordoba, daily kept by Santos Gener. Both constitute a rich and varied collection of documents, illustrative enough to allow us to know the slow and tough recovery of a minimum normality in the archaeological research during the harsh first period of the Franco regime.