Miradas a la historia

A valuable new contribution to the regional archaeology of La Payunia (Argentina), tackling issues of broader interest such as the elusive relationships between foragers and agriculturalists. The work contains new and interesting material which is presented with updated methodologies and conceptualisations. Spanish text.

Alfredo Coviello: Nacido en Buenos Aires el 25 de abril de 1898. Centro de sus actividades: Tucuman. Anos de mayor actuacion: 1933 a fines de 1943. Sede principal de sus actividades: el diario La Gaceta. Otros ambitos: Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Sociedad Sarmiento, Filial Tucuman de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (S.A.D.E.). Fundador y director de la revista Sustancia. Fallecio en Tucuman, a los 46 anos de edad, el 13 de julio de 1944."

We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...