Quel est le type de liant de ce mortier ? Comment choisir le bon échantillon à analyser ? Peut-on caractériser un mortier sur le terrain ? Quapportent les analyses minéralogiques ...

Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much ...

De Newgrange en Irlande à Hal Saflieni à Malte ou Gavrinis en Bretagne, les tombeaux néolithiques sont connus pour leur caractère monumental. Loin d'être de simples "contenants" mortuaires, ces tombes ...

This volume presents the proceedings of the session 'Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-literate Peoples' part of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in Burgos (Spain), the 4th September 2014. ...

ART.Images of the Ice Age, here in its third edition, is the most complete study available of the world's earliest imagery, presenting a fascinating and up-to-date account of the art ...

Sommario: - Mª Isabel Fernández-García, Pablo Ruiz Montes y Mª Victoria Peinado Espinosa, Introducción. Pioneros en el estudio de la Terra Sigillata Hispánica. BLOQUE 1. Producción y centros productores - ...

In this work, originally published in Dutch, Rik Smits theorizes that language could not have developed originally as a system of communication. It is, instead, the result of combining separate ...

The research scope of this book is the human occupation of the northern Adriatic region at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 24,000- 20,000 calBP), and a point ...

For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and ...

Millstone quarries are the sites where hard and abrasive stones were extracted to be fashioned into the querns or millstones to grind flour for bread, the staple food of our ...

The principal aim of this study is to put forward a technological and typological analysis of the industries of the Early Neolithic concerned in the process of neolithisation in several ...

El presente libro recoge las Actas del Congreso que con el mismo título se celebró en 2007 en el Museo Casa de los Tiros (Consejería de Cultura de la Junta ...

Este volumen recoge las actas de dos encuentros celebrados en León y en Vitoria-Gasteiz dedicados al estudio de identidades étnicas en las sociedades hispanas de los s. VI y VIII. ...

Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, ...

De gran formato y profusamente ilustrado, contiene las últimas aportaciones de los máximos especialistas en la cultura clásica maya: arte, escritura, religión, rituales, estructuras sociales, arquitectura, guerra y paisaje político. ...

Ignored for many years, the archaeology of the Tripillia/Tripolye sites found in modern Ukraine and Moldova can make important contributions to a discussion of scale and settlement nucleation in prehistoric ...

For 250 years encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen's nets: everything imaginable from prehistoric animal bones to priceless Roman statues. Fishing trawlers annually sweep an area equivalent in ...

The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe provides a unique, up-to-date, and easily accessible synthesis of the later prehistoric archaeology of north-west Europe, transcending political and language barriers that can hinder ...

Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. ...