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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 231-253, May 2026.In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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Fundamentos de Historia - Historia Antigua y Medieval: Problemas y soluciones materiales
Didacticae: Revista de Investigación en Didácticas Específicas, 2022 Fundamentos de Historia corresponde a una serie de proyectos de innovación docente financiados por el vicerrectorado de estudiantes de la Universidad de Sevilla, cuyo objetivo primero fue identificar las necesidades de los alumnos a la hora de cursar la asignatura homónima introducida en el plan de estudios del Grado de Educación Primaria en 2010.
Víctor Sánchez Domínguez +2 more
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The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1068-1087, November 2025.Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
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Sí se puede: The enduring legacy of Mexico on wine and politics
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 514-523, May 2025.The cultural significance of the grapevine is undeniable. However, we fail to acknowledge how the grapevine has and continues to influence the most pressing political questions of our time. From the beginning of the Conquest, Indigenous peoples were forced to plant the vine, Spain burned the vines Miguel Hidalgo used to teach the poor, and César Chávez
Daniel H. Chitwood +6 more
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Evidence of glass bead‐making in the early Islamic Iberian Peninsula
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 364-379, April 2025.Abstract Glass beads from two Islamic archaeological sites in the Tagus valley in central Spain were selected and analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS), and a subset of samples (n = 6) was analysed for Pb isotopes by multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometry (MC‐TIMS).
Cristina Boschetti +4 more
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Mammal Review, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 2025.The shrew Crocidura iculisma has a fragmented distribution limited to southwestern Europe. This study analyzes changes in its geographic distribution including palaeontological and modern data, revealing a significant reduction its range during the Holocene due to competitive exclusion by Crocidura russula and climatic changes.
Ángel C. Domínguez‐García +8 more
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The Zooarchaeology of an Iberian Medieval Jewish Community: The Castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain)
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 1, January/February 2025.ABSTRACT Archaeological excavations at the castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain) led to the identification of part of the Jewish district of the town. This area, occupied between the 14th and 15th centuries, represents a unique example of a medieval frontier Jewish quarter defined by complex urban planning, a synagogue, and various domestic units ...
Marcos García García +3 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 352-363, December 2024.Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
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Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 648-664, June 2024.Abstract Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy (EDX) enables the determination of the composition and structure of tiny calcified remains occasionally recovered during burial excavations. To deepen the practical application of this technique, we performed SEM/EDX analysis on three different tiny ...
Alejandra C. Ordóñez +4 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 1, May 2024.Abstract Objectives To test a hypothesis on interpersonal violence events during the transition between Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in the Eastern Pyrenees, to contextualize it in Western Europe during that period, and to assess if these marks can be differentiated from secondary funerary treatment.
Miguel Ángel Moreno‐Ibáñez +7 more
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