Archaeology
History, myth, and landscape in the Fuentes de Cesna monumental complex (Algarinejo)
A natural monument with [pre]history Dominating the Genil river valley, in the village of Fuentes de Cesna (Algarinejo, Granada) and almost …
Prehistory
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Early Modern History
Calvary stones and water-related milestones, Baños de la Encina (Jaén)
In Baños de la Encina, a wide array of calvaries carved into stone still exists, present in both religious and civil buildings as well as sp…
Archaeology
Archaeology and disability in prehistory to transform present societies
Since when has disability accompanied humanity? Disability has been part of the human experience since prehistoric times. Archaeological rec…
Archaeology
Jōmon Prehistoric Communities: Periodization and Chronology
The Jōmon period (縄文時代, jōmon jidai) is the prehistoric chronological period of part of the Japanese archipelago, spanning approximately fro…
Prehistory
The Imhotep of Torre d'en Galmés: Egyptian cults in Bronze Age Menorca?
This past 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most notable and peculiar milestones in Menorcan archaeology: the discovery, in an a…
Prehistory
Contacts between the Empordà and the Rossellon in the Middle Neolithic
The article presents the facies of Empordà and proposes various methodological studies to investigate its links with the Chassey group of Ro…
Prehistory
Music in prehistoric times
The ability to make music is uniquely human, with singing, dancing, and construction being universal phenomena shared by all known living so…
Archaeology
Paleolithic archaeological evidence from Moriles (Córdoba)
Moriles is located in the south of the province of Córdoba, in a region known as Sur Cordobesa Campiña. This rural territory shares its surr…
Archaeology
The discovery of the ice man
When we hear the word mummy, our minds immediately travel to those well-known Egyptian mummies. However, as we saw in previous publications …
Prehistory
Iberian women's clothing: image, status, and legitimation of power
The Iberian culture (6th-1st century BC) was one of the most significant entities in our Protohistory. These communities were distributed ac…
Archaeology
The Neanderthals: Theories about Their Extinction
The Homo neanderthalensis is currently the best-known ancient human. Since the discovery of a first skull in 1829 in Engis (Belgium), the co…
Archaeology
Did Hobbits Exist? The Case of Flores Island
The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much of what once was is lost. Because no one …
Archaeology
The City of Caral: Religion (Part II)
Both European and American civilizations have had the need to know and understand the origin of the world and humanity. Therefore, it is ine…
Prehistory
Are We What We Eat? Nutrition from an Evolutionary Perspective
The paleo diet, the keto diet, the Dukan diet, the Atkins diet, the LOW-CARB diet, the carnivore diet… you’ve probably heard of them, right?…
Archaeology
Artificial lighting through history: a journey from prehistory to the present (I)
In the Europe we live in today, electricity has become an indispensable part of life. Beyond economic fluctuations, access to it is truly ea…
Archaeology
The sacred city of Caral (Peru): general distribution of the site (Part I)
The Caral-Supe civilization is one of the oldest in the Americas, forming alongside many others around the world such as Sumer in Mesopotami…
Archaeology
Megalithism: The Pyrenean cromlechs
Most of us associate the word crómlech with one of the several examples within the megalithic world, automatically visualizing Stonehenge as…
Prehistory
The landscape of change: between Neanderthals and Sapiens
The extinction of the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), a matter with many questions and few answers. But, above all, a question that an…
Prehistory
The Prehistory of Seville's El Cuervo. Introduction
While it is not at all criticizeable to document the main paradigms or the most famous sites in prehistory, there is often a sense that preh…
Archaeology
THE CAVE OF LES TEIXONERES: HUMANS AND CARNIVORES SHARING SPACE
Summer arrives, along with the excavation campaign season. This is the case for the archaeological site of the Cova de les Teixoneres, part …
Archaeology
The "triple death" ritual or "threefold death"
In a previous article (Martínez Blanco, 2021), we delved into the world of mummies discovered in European bogs and peatlands. In this new in…
Archaeology
Geoarchaeology as a meeting point for two scientific disciplines
Introduction The relationship between Geology and Archaeology has been developing since the 19th century with publications such as Principle…
Prehistory
Humans... and stubborn ones at that. A brain shaped by millennia of nutrition.
Throughout our lives, we have heard many times that "we are what we eat." Of course, this is true, and there is plenty of scientific evidenc…
Prehistory
Prehistoric women: some biological aspects of childbirth.
Human childbirth is a process that we know perfectly when it comes to our own species. We understand the different stages of development and…
Archaeology
Prehistoric cannibalism in the Iberian Peninsula
When we hear the term "cannibalism," our minds are likely to evoke scenes from The Silence of the Lambs starring Anthony Hopkins, the accide…
Archaeology
The three times dead. Mummies, swamps, and rituals
Death is defined as a passage, a transition. The funeral ritual is a rite of passage between two opposing spaces, that of life and that of d…