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¿Cuál es el sentido de nuestras vidas? ¿Por qué y para qué hemos nacido? Mirando al mar es un libro que se atreve a indagar en las preguntas metafísicas y fundamentales de nuestra existencia. Una historia que entremezcla los aprendizajes de vidas pasadas que se unen al presente en un mismo proposito: Ayudar al despertar de conciencia de la humanidad. La historia nos lleva a traves de las vidas de Rafael y Sara, que el destino une de una manera extraordinaria para emprender juntos el viaje mas dificil. El viaje a nuestro mundo interior.Desde el antiguo imperio Atlante, anterior a Tartessos, hasta los tiempos actuales en la region de Andalucia, el libro entrelaza las historias del presente y del pasado haciendo que sus personajes transiten sin miedo por el camino del aprendizaje y el autodescubrimiento. Una historia que te permite avanzar en el viaje de crecimiento personal y espiritual que todos hemos venido a realizar en este mundo. Tras su primer libro, Cartas desde el Paraiso, el autor publica esta segunda obra con la intencion de seguir navegando en los mares del autodesarrollo y la conciencia personal.

One of the most significant differences between the New Worlds major areas of high culture is that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. Four members of the camelid family--wild guanacos and vicunas, and domestic llamas and alpacas--were native to the Andes. South American peoples relied on these animals for meat and wool, and as beasts of burden to transport goods all over the Andes. In this book, Duccio Bonavia tackles major questions about these camelids, from their domestication to their distribution at the time of the Spanish conquest. One of Bonavias hypotheses is that the arrival of the Europeans and their introduced Old World animals forced the Andean camelids away from the Pacific coast, creating the (mistaken) impression that camelids were exclusively high-altitude animals. Bonavia also addresses the diseases of camelids and their population density, suggesting that the original camelid populations suffered from a different type of mange than that introduced by the Europeans. This new mange, he believes, was one of the causes behind the great morbidity of camelids in Colonial times. In terms of domestication, while Bonavia believes that the major centers must have been the puna zone intermediate zones, he adds that the process should not be seen as restricted to a single environmental zone. Bonavias landmark study of the South American camelids is now available for the first time in English. This new edition features an updated analysis and comprehensive bibliography. In the Spanish edition of this book, Bonavia lamented the fact that the zooarchaeological data from R. S. MacNeishs Ayacucho Project had yet to be published. In response, the Ayacuchos Projects faunal analysts, Elizabeth S. Wing and Kent V. Flannery, have added appendices on the Ayacucho results to this English edition. This book will be of broad interest to archaeologists, zoologists, social anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and a wide range of students.

Beginning in 1994, the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka conducted a complete survey of the Islands of the Sun and Moon in southern Lake Titicaca, along with test excavations of important Inca, Tiwanaku, and pre-Tiwanaku sites. This book provides the final results of this work on one of the most important locations in the circum-Titicaca Basin, with detailed survey and excavation data indispensable for Andeanists and other scholars interested in the development of complex political, economic, and ritual systems in prehistory.

When the Spanish colonized it in AD 1769, the California Coast was inhabited by speakers of no fewer than 16 distinct languages and an untold number of small, autonomous Native communities. These societies all survived by foraging, and ethnohistoric records show a wide range of adaptations emphasizing a host of different marine and terrestrial foods. Many groups exhibited signs of cultural complexity including sedentism, high population density, permanent social inequality, and sophisticated maritime technologies. The ethnographic era was preceded by an archaeological past that extends back to the terminal Pleistocene. Essays in this volume explore the last three and one half millennia of this long history, focusing on the archaeological signatures of emergent cultural complexity. Organized geographically, they provide an intricate mosaic of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic findings that illuminate cultural changes over time. To explain these Late Holocene cultural developments, the authors address issues ranging from culture history, paleoenvironments, settlement, subsistence, exchange, ritual, power, and division of labor, and employ both ecological and post-modern perspectives. Complex cultural expressions, most highly developed in the Santa Barbara Channel and the North Coast, are viewed alternatively as fairly recent and abrupt responses to environmental flux or the end-product of gradual progressions that began earlier in the Holocene.

This volume explores the social and economic processes involved in the manufacture of obsidian prismatic blades, one of the sharpest cutting instruments ever produced in the prehistoric world. Focusing on ancient Mesoamerica, contributors examine the variation in the way the blades were manufactured and the causes behind their variation.

The streetscape of Londons historic square mile has been evolving for centuries, but the Citys busy commercial heart still boasts an extensive network of narrow passages and alleyways, secret squares and half-hidden courtyards.Using his wealth of local knowledge, historian David Long guides you through these ancient rights of passage many dating back to medieval times or earlier their evocative names recalling old taverns, notable individuals and City traditions. Hidden behind the glass, steel and stone of Londons banks and big business, these survivors of modern development bear witness to nearly 2,000 years of British history.

La arqueología es una ciencia social que ha tenido como objetivo primordial el estudio de las sociedades pasadas a partir de sus testimonios materiales ubicados en tiempo y espacio. A lo largo de su historia ha tendido puentes teoricos y empiricos con las ciencias exactas (como la fisica y la quimica), con las ciencias naturales (como la geologia y la biologia) y con ramas humanisticas (como la historia del arte o la filosofia), con el fin de enriquecer su bagaje teorico y para disponer de mejores herramientas analiticas. Este libro examina la demarcacion de la arqueologia mediante el estudio historico del desarrollo disciplinar y de la manera en que se ha conformado su marco conceptual a lo largo de su historia de 190 años. A partir de este analisis, se explica y se sostiene que la arqueologia es una ciencia hibrida que combina saberes de distintos campos del conocimiento y los adapta a sus propias necesidades.

A water separation, or flotation, machine is an instrument that divides soil into three components: the material that floats (called flot or light fraction), the stones and other heavy portions that do not float (called residue or heavy fraction), and the particles that either dissolve in water or become suspended in it and are washed away. The primary purpose for utilizing such a device is the recovery of organic remains, such as charred seeds, charcoal, or small bones, which would otherwise be permanently lost. However, the machine is of great value for archaeological excavation because it allows for the collection of tiny artifacts of all classes, it divides them by size and weight, and it does not break fragile items. Water separation is very different from water screening. Use of a water separation machine requires four stages in the recovery of archaeological material: 1. Retrieval of archaeological sediments 2. Operation of the water separation machine 3. Sorting of the materials 4. Study of the materials.

As part of the INSTAP Archaeological Excavation Manual series, Thin-Section Petrography of Ceramic Materials provides a concise overview of the history and application of the practice while detailing how this type of petrographic analysis can benefit archaeologists in the field. When thin-section analysis is employed as part of a thorough, multi-disciplinary study of ceramic materials, it provides a wealth of additional interpretative data to archaeologists, allowing for more accurate interpretations of the past, especially regarding pottery production, provenance, variations in technology over time and space, exchange networks on local and non-local scales, and even social issues such as choices of both manufacturers and consumers and traditions of manufacture.

En junio de 1994 se desenterró enPalenque, Chiapas, uno de los másgrandes misterios arqueológicosdel sigloxx: una tumba colmadade jade y cinabrio, pero sin inscripciones.El cuerpo era de unamujer, algo inaudito hasta entonces:ninguna gobernante maya,que se supiera, habia recibido ese tipo de honores.Testigo presencial del hallazgo, Adriana Malvido reconstruye la voz de la Reina Roja para que sea ella quien nos cuente su historia y la de su pueblo, no sin una buena dosis de suspenso y misticismo. Como una ventana a un mundo perdido, la figura de TzakabAjaw ha ayudado a comprender mejor la civilizacion maya y ha transformado las vidas de quienes han estado cerca de ella, cientificos e investigadores en cuyos dias y noches tambien nos adentramos en esta deslumbrante cronica.Esta nueva edicion, que conmemora los treinta años del descubrimiento, ha sido actualizada para ofrecer a los lectores la informacion mas reciente sobre la identidad y la vida de la Reina Roja. El misterio mas grande esta ya resuelto, pero con cada respuesta la fascinacion por el mundo maya, lejos de disiparse, no ha hecho mas que crecer.

Un estudio pionero sobre la historia intelectual chilena que evidencia los valores que dieron forma a nuestra identidad nacional.La seducción de un orden se adentra en los debates políticos y culturales que tuvieron lugar en Chile durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX, como parte del proceso de construccion de la republica y de consolidacion de la nacion, en los que la clase dirigente asumio el protagonismo desde su posicion conservadora pero abierta al cambio. Estos debates, suscitados en la prensa, los libros, el teatro, el lenguaje y otras esferas culturales y politicas, buscaron dar forma a los valores, creencias e ideales que forjarian los cimientos de la nueva identidad nacional y estatal.Este profundo estudio identifica el concepto de orden en todas sus dimensiones, junto con el republicanismo y el catolicismo, como los pilares sobre los cuales la republica fue actualizandose, tanto en el plano cultural como politico.A 23 años de su publicacion original, volver a revisar los debates fundacionales del Estado y la nacion resulta especialmente iluminador para comprender rasgos esenciales de la cultura chilena. La busqueda y la recuperacion de ciertos "ordenes" en la sociedad y en el debate politico contemporaneo parece ser, segun argumenta su autora, elementos que tienen una larga tradicion y prevalencia entre los chilenos.

Tesoros de leyenda, yacimientos milenarios, robos y expolios… un recorrido apasionante por los hitos de la arqueología de nuestro paísTesoros de leyenda, yacimientos milenarios, robos y expolios… un

Esta Breve historia de la arqueología nos narra los asombrosos descubrimientos de los mayores arqueólogos del mundo: tumbas egipcias, ruinas mayas, las primeras colonias europeas en Norteamérica, los misterios de Stonehenge, los sobrecogedores eventos de Pompeya y muchos otros. A lo largo de cuarenta breves capitulos, Brian Fagan cuenta la evolucion de la arqueologia desde sus origenes en el siglo XVIII hasta sus mayores avances tecnologicos en el XXI.

El libro definitivo sobre Atapuerca. En Atapuerca , Eudald Carbonell y Rosa M. Tristán repasan con exhaustividad y contagiosa fascinación la historia del yacimiento, sus claves y su relevancia, y los detalles de su formacion y de los trabajos que en el se han realizado y se realizan en la actualidad. Con todo ello, nos sumergen en un mundo prehistorico explicado con tanta precision que llegan a hacernos sentir parte de el. Se han escrito muchos libros sobre Atapuerca, pero ninguno como este, completo, riguroso, entretenido y cautivador, redactado por algunas de las personas que, posiblemente, mejor conocen sus secretos.

Purpureae vestes estudia un elemento fundamental en la vida de cualquier sociedad antigua como es el vestido y los colores utilizados para el adorno del mismo, especialmente la púrpura. El lujo en el vestir implicaba el empleo de materiales como el oro para la confeccion de ciertos complementos. Con unos antecedentes claramente orientales de busqueda de la magnificencia externa de reyes y otros dignatarios, el simbolismo del color en el adorno personal constituyo, en las ciudades ribereñas del Mediterraneo, un factor importante de distincion social. Ya fueran de procedencia vegetal, mineral o animal, los tintes dieron siempre el alma a los textiles. Por ello, el poder imperial romano, en algunos periodos de su historia, controlo con normas legales de mayor o menor dureza el uso de determinados colores obtenidos a partir de gasteropodos marinos. La obra trata extensamente los aspectos economicos y tecnicos relacionados con la elaboracion y comercializacion de vestidos y telas para otros usos (velas, adornos del hogar, etc.). A partir de diversos puntos de vista, entre los que se incluyen los datos arqueologicos o las referencias etnografico-comparativas, se incide en las etapas de preparacion de las fibras textiles, en las formas de elaboracion de los tejidos mas complejos a traves de la reconstruccion experimental, en el trabajo de los pescadores y manufactureros que elaboraban en talleres costeros el tinte mas valorado, la purpura, o en quienes trabajaban en los talleres de la ciudad, asi como en el analisis y descripcion detallada de los resultados extraidos de los restos textiles aparecidos en yacimientos, del Egipto romano sobre todo, que nos muestran todavia hoy la riqueza y viveza de sus colores.

Nasirutha é uma jornada espiritual e filosófica da Escola judaica de Hilel (Beit Hilel) a Sabedoria Ancestral e a transcendência da alma. Dividido em várias partes ricas de ensinamentos, este livro u

During the Neolithic and Bronze Age - a period covering some 4,000 years from the beginnings of farming by stone-using communities to the end of the era in which bronze was an important material for weapons and tools - the face of Britain changed profoundly, from a forest wilderness to a large patchwork of open ground and managed woodland. The axe was replaced as a key symbol, first by the dagger and finally by the sword. The houses of the living came to supplant the tombs of the dead as the most permanent features in the landscape.In this fascinating book, eminent archeologist Michael Parker Pearson looks at the ways in which we can interpret the challenging and tantalising evidence from this prehistoric era. He also examines the various arguments and current theories of archeologist about these times. Drawing on recent discoveries and research, and illustrated with numerous maps, plans, reconstructions and photographs, this book shows what life was like and how it changed during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Sutton Park is a nationally important historic landscape. Its many visitors are often drawn by the rich ecology that this public open space of about 2,250 acres provides. However, the Park also contains extensive and well-preserved archaeological remains of various periods of the past. The recent exposure of hitherto concealed archaeological features by heathland clearance has emphasised the remarkable extent and survival of these remains. This book reveals the evidence of manmade structures and objects that show how people exploited and managed their environment; amongst other things, the 28km (17 miles) of former boundaries that explain the present-day vegetation patterns; and the impact that the industrial use of water power had on the landscape. This informative and carefully illustrated book reveals the special history of this site to visitors from near and far.

Northumbria was one of the great kingdoms of Britain in the Dark Ages, enduring longer than the Roman Empire. Yet it has been all but forgotten. This book puts Northumbria back in its rightful place, at the heart of British history. From the impregnable fastness of Bamburgh Castle, the kings of Northumbria ruled a vast area, and held sway as High Kings of Britain. From the tidal island of Lindisfarne, extraordinary saints and learned scholars brought Christianity and civilization to the rest of the country. Now, thanks to the ongoing work of a dedicated team of archaeologists this story is slowly being brought to light. The excavations at Bamburgh Castle have revealed a society of unsuspected sophistication and elegance, capable of creating swords and jewellery unparalleled before or since, and works of art and devotion that still fill the beholder with wonder.