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Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract Numerical notation found on multiple slates from Early Medieval Visigothic Iberia remains undeciphered. Previous studies have proposed that they simply represent Roman numerals. However, the comparative study of the numbers on the written and numerical slates suggests that they do not in fact represent the same graphic code.
Fernández Cadenas N.
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Contribution of cultural heritage values to steppe conservation on ancient burial mounds of Eurasia
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Civilizations, including ancient ones, have shaped global ecosystems in many ways through coevolution of landscapes and humans. However, the cultural legacies of ancient and lost civilizations are rarely considered in the conservation of the Eurasian steppe biome.
Balázs Deák +26 more
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MEDIEVALISMS AND MEDIEVAL TIMES: CONFRONTING CHRONOPOLITICS WITH MEDIEVAL TEXTURES OF TIME
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 142-156, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This review essay examines Nadia R. Altschul's discussion of medievalism in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century South America in Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth‐Century South America. She explores a chronopolitics whereby the notion that late medieval Iberia lagged developmentally behind the rest of Europe ...
Hannah Skoda
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Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 498-524, May 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the economics of innovation in livestock rearing during the first globalisation in Uruguay, the country with the most cattle per person in the world, both then and now. Using a new historical dataset of Uruguayan agriculture, the first one at a sub‐provincial level, I exploit regional differences in the adoption of cattle
Emiliano Travieso
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Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 22-41, March 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This paper looks from a gender perspective at the elusive figure, complex personality and myth of Francisco de Miranda, enlightened traveller and Precursor of Latin American independence. By analysing Miranda's personal archive as his own carefully crafted creation, it pursues three closely connected issues insufficiently interpreted in ...
Mónica Bolufer
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The Basque Heroine Libe and the Nationalist Press (1895–1936)
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 77-97, March 2022., 2022 Abstract The founder of Basque nationalism, Sabino Arana, wrote Libe. Melodrama dramático (a dramatic melodrama) in 1902. Arana placed the heroine ‘Libe’ in a medieval battle. She was created to convey what the role of Basque women should be in defending their Homeland. Arana died shortly after the script was published in 1903. His successors attempted
Leyre Arrieta
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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People and Nature, Volume 3, Issue 1, Page 129-147, February 2021., 2021 Abstract Marine ecosystems play a key role in human wellbeing, particularly in the Global South through small‐scale fisheries (SSF). While many have speculated that such activities are central to the provision of cultural benefits (such as cultural identity and heritage values), there are key information gaps regarding SSF cultural contributions to ...
Rocío López de la Lama +4 more
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La Civilización del Oxus [PDF]
, 2013 La Civilización del Oxus, también conocida como la Civilización de Bactria-Margiana, está centrada en el oasis de Murghab, Turkmenistán, y datada entre el 2200-1700 AC. Descubierta por Victor Sarianidi en la década de 1970, continua sus excavaciones en
Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C.
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Civilizaciondigital.org: la civilización digital [PDF]
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Guirao, Josep
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