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ISCUA was the 1st Symposium of Conservation for Underwater Archaeology (ISCUA), held in 2019 in the Formentera island. It was organized by the Institut Balear d"Estudis en Arqueología Marítima (IBEAM) in collaboration with the Council of Formentera. That it served as a platform to disseminate leading research in the preservation of our maritime cultural heritage. This Symposium was aims to continue with the training of the youngest generations in the field, as well as to create future links between differents institutions and invited specialists. This book, is the result of the best reunion ever.

During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark A. S. McMenamin unearthed fossils of creatures dated at approximately 600 million years old -making them the oldest large body fossils ever discovered. These circular fossils, known as Ediacarans, seemed to defy explanation. Representatives of marine life forms that existed in Precambrian times, as much as fifty million years before life on earth began to diversify rapidly, the specimens bore a superficial resemblance to jellyfish. A typical Ediacaran had a quilted body, three curving arms at the center, and a fringe of fine radial lines. McMenamins curiosity was fueled by the puzzle of whether the Ediacarans were animals or some other type of organism. How could such complex forms of life appear so suddenly, without extensive records of prior evolution? Yet, this seems to be exactly what the Ediacarans had done. "The Garden of Ediacara" presents a mesmerizing documentary of a major scientific discovery, detailing McMenamins trip to Namibia, where, with a party that included the renowned paleont

Arx Hasdrubalis. La ciudad reencontrada. Con un hilo conductor marcadamente temático, se explica la historia de la arqueología en el Cerro del Molinete (Cartagena), uno de los accidentes orográficos que mas y mejor ha caracterizado la topografia y fisonomia urbana de la ciudad de Cartagena en el devenir de los siglos, desde el momento de su fundacion hasta el presente, y donde las diferentes culturas europeas han dejado su huella a lo largo del tiempo.

El presente volumen recoge, en su primera parte, los estudios relativos a los materiales hallados en las campañas 1993-94. La peculiaridad de estos materiales es que corresponden a una fecha, en torno a los primeros años de reinado de Antonino Pío, habiéndose hallado los nombres de mercatores hasta ahora desconocidos. Al mismo tiempo es de particular importancia la publicación, por primera vez entre los materiales Testaccio, de un buen número de tituli picti sobre ánforas africanas. En la segunda parte de la obra se recogen estudios sobre gravimetría, flora y poesía relativos al Monte Testaccio, así como otros estudios tipológicos sobre las ánforas Dressel 20 del Testaccio, y otros estudios generales sobre la producción de aceite en el mundo romano. The current volume gathers, in its first part, the studies related to the archaeological material from the digs of 1993-94 in Monte Testaccio. The peculiarity of this material is that it is dated approximately on the first years of Antoninus Pius time, having been documented some names of unknown mercatores. At the same time, the publication is also very important as it includes a large amount of tituli picti on African amphorae of the Testaccio material for the first time. The second part of the book includes gravimetric, flora and poetry studies related to Monte Testaccio; typological works on Dressel 20 amphorae from Testaccio; and, other general studies on olive-oil production in the Roman world.

María Dolores Fernández-Posse (Pachula para todos sus conocidos), empezó su carrera científica como alumna de Antonio Arribas en la Universidad de Granada. Desarrolló su notable capacidad como arqueologa en las excavaciones que el equipo de Arribas efectuaba por entonces en los asentamientos del Cerro de la Encina (Monachil) y la Cuesta del Negro (Perullena) y completo su doctorado con su tesis "El final de la Edad de Bronce en la Meseta Norte: la Cultura de Cogotas". Paralelamente entro a formar parte de los servicios tecnicos de Arqueologia del Ministerio de Cultura en 1975, cuando a traves de Arribas conocio al que entonces era su responsable, Juan Maluquer de Motes; en ellos trabajo hasta su muerte prematura en 2007. Este libro es un homenaje y un reflejo de la amplia gama de amistades e intereses cientificos con que contaba Pachula.

Since the earliest days of the medium photographers have been drawn to the power and beauty of this mysterious and iconic landmark. The photographs they have taken have added to our knowledge and understanding of the site, as well as showing the changes in the surrounding landscape. More... Renowned TV historian and Stonehenge expert Julian Richards traces the development of photography of Stonehenge, from the earliest known shot (taken in 1853 and belonging to Prince Albert's personal collection) to modern day thermal imaging shots. He explains what they tell us about various excavations and discoveries and how these have contributed to our understanding of the site. But more than this the photographs give us a fascinating cultural history of Britain's best known monument. From shots of Victorian ladies picnicking on the collapsed stones (much of the site was reconstructed in the 1920's) to shots of World War 1 bombers parked behind them (the RAF petitioned for the stones to be demolished in the First World War as they were distracting pilots from the nearby air base), to mass Druidic ceremonies in the 1920's, the book gives a unique and intriguing picture to the ever changing nature of the site. At the same time the author uses remarkable aerial shots to explain the archaeology of the immense ceremonial landscape of the surrounding area.

La presente obra, escrita por uno de los más prestigiosos especialistas en la materia en el ámbito internacional, ofrece un completo y riguroso panórama de los conceptos, métodos y prácticas sobre los que se sustenta la practica arqueologica actual. De la excavacion propiamente dicha a la interpretacion de los datos, pasando por una vision historica de la disciplina, el lector encontrara en sus diferentes capitulos todo aquello que el arqueologo debe tener en cuenta en el curso de su trabajo, como la datacion, la cronologia, la tecnologia, el comercio, el arte o la religion, asi como las principales metodologias utilizadas en la actualidad (Arqueologia cognitiva, social y ambiental). Acompañado de numerosos ejemplos practicos, asi como de un amplio aparato de dibujos y fotografias, el texto de Renfrew y Bahn es una herramienta indispensable para cualquier persona para la que la arqueologia constituya un instrumento basico de su trabajo e investigacion.

Palaeolithic societies have been a neglected topic in the discussion of human origins. In this book, which succeeds and replaces The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe, published by Cambridge University Press in 1986, Clive Gamble challenges the established view that the social life of Europeans over the 500,000 years of the European Palaeolithic must remain a mystery. In the past forty years archaeologists have recovered a wealth of information from sites throughout the continent. Professor Gamble now introduces a new approach to this material. He examines the archaeological evidence from stone tools, hunting and campsites for information on the scale of social interaction, and the forms of social life. Taking a pan-European view of the archaeological evidence, he reconstructs ancient human societies, and introduces new perspectives on the unique social experience of human beings.