Al otro lado del vestigio

Based on the author's doctoral thesis, this is a study of the transition from hunter-gathering to pastoralism-farming in the southern Iberian peninsular. Caceres' work involves detailed study of the fauna available in this region from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, especially in relation to human occupation and settlements. Theoretical and methodological issues are outlined in the first part, followed by an in-depth examination of data related to economic strategies and available faunal species, finishing with a discussion of the process of Neolithisation and the emergence of farming in...

Este libro rinde tributo a una generación de mujeres que, con sus conocimientos, habilidades y esfuerzos, crean estrategias alimentarias cotidianas, y ello, en un contexto de concepción popular de lo que es la dieta mediterránea. A menudo ignoradas, las mujeres mayores constituyen un baluarte fundamental de la conservación de nuestro patrimonio cultural y gastronómico. No solo se trata de alimentar a la familia, importa organizarse, calcular, sopesar y, sobre todo, compartir. Frente a las amenazas socioeconómicas, culturales y de salud que presenta la McDonalización de nuestros estilos ...

In 2007, during the archaeological excavations for the construction of a metro station in the Piazza Venetia of Rome, two auditoria were discovered that date to the first half of the second century AD. Some archaeologists identified them as part of Hadrian's Athenaeum, the first great Roman academic institution that is mentioned in classical sources. This book is the result of a thorough analysis covering topography, architecture, and philology, with the goal of revealing the function of the structures, which could have formed part of the Atheneum or, perhaps, of a judicial institution...

Este libro introduce al lector en el sistema de creencias de la Regla de Palo Monte (o Regla Conga) y estudia las deidades paleras y su fuente kikongo, lengua de los bakongo del Bajo Congo.