Desafíos urbanos y metropolitanos en México y el mundo

Results of a regional settlement study which argue that the emergence of highly nucleated early Wankarani villages can be attributed to concentration of highly productive land for a mixed farming-herding economy, defense, and labor pooling. There is little evidence of exotic imported goods, but some indication of small-scale village specialization and economic interdependence. The full regional settlement dataset is available online to complement the volume. Complete text in English and Spanish.

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...

Novela histórica. Un joven oficial del Ejército Español, David Crespo, puertorriqueño de cuna, español de sangre, habrá de enfrentarse al esclarecimiento de un misterioso secreto y a una revisión de su propia existencia personal que traerá como consecuencia su revelación. Los hechos trascurren en el año de 1898, con la Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense como suceso histórico aglutinador y entre las ciudades de Mayagüez, La Habana, San Juan y Cádiz como escenarios. Mundos encontrados y necesariamente complementarios, España, Puerto Rico, Cuba y Estados Unidos, naciones destinadas...

The fact that a journalist of the written press, an editor for more than thirty years, suddenly starts writing with pictures, taking photos, can only mean two things: either he is gone mad or the world has been so reversed that it is not recognizable anymore. Jordi Panyella (Barcelona, 1966) is still writing in the newspaper El Punt Avui, as he always has, but the world has now changed radically. And specially in his city, following the brutal impact of the crisis of the Covid-19. Through a story woven with images taken during two months of confinement, Barcelona 2020 unfolds the every day...