Search results for "Wester"

A mediterranean perspective of the neolithization process. The cave of Nerja in the context of andalusia (Spain)

2013

[EN] This paper offers an overview for the Early Neolithic of the southern coast of Andalusia (Spain). Analyses of materials recovered during the 1979-87 excavations in Nerja cave by professor Francisco Jordá Cerdá, including new radiocarbon dates on domestic taxa, allow us to examine the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Paleoenvironmental and paleoeconomic data (stratigraphy and bioarcheological data) combined with archaeological data (ornaments, bone tools, lithics, and ceramics were analysed) to provide a regional perspective on the neolithisation of the western Mediterranean. There is an apparent 500-year gap between occupations by the last coastal foragers and the earliest Neolithic fa…

Episodios de precipitación torrencial en el este y sureste ibéricos y su relación con la variabilidad intraanual de la oscilación del Mediterráneo oc…

2018

Ponencia presentada en: XI Congreso de la Asociación Española de Climatología celebrado en Cartagena entre el 17 y el 19 de octubre de 2018. [ES]La relación de la Oscilación del Mediterráneo Occidental (WeMO) con la ocurrencia e intensidad de las precipitaciones en el litoral mediterráneo ibérico ha sido demostrada en numerosos trabajos. Entre 1950 y 2016 se registraron 239 episodios de precipitación torrencial extrema (≥200 mm/24 horas) en las cuencas hidrográficas del Júcar y del Segura (3,6 casos al año). El 29,3% de estos eventos tuvieron lugar con una fase de la WeMO fuertemente negativa, el 37,5% en una fase negativa y el 28,3% en una fase ligeramente negativa. Solo el 7,9% de los epi…

Combined spatial Radiocarbon density maps and refined SCPD method to explore food production spread through the central and western mediterranean

2018

The neolithisation process in Europe constitutes a fundamental issue of interest in social evolutionary studies. The pioneer work of Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza (1984) has been considered the basis for discussing the mechanisms involved in the expansion of farming and herding practices in a continental scale, assuming their spread from the Near East domestic core area. From an evolutionary perspective the introduction of agriculture and livestock implies major shifts in social dynamics including changes in demographic patterns as well as in settlement distribution and cultural models. Spatial analysis together with the use of radiocarbon data as a demographic proxy maybe one of the keys to …

Landscape Socioecology in the Serpis Valley (10,000–4000 BP)

2008

En este trabajo se discute nuestro enfoque de la modelización del paisaje para la cuenca del Serpis medio (costa mediterránea central de la Península Ibérica) durante el Holoceno. La secuencia arqueológica de estos valles está marcada por la aparición inicial del paquete neolítico alrededor del año 5700 a.C. Examinamos cómo los paisajes responden al modo de vida agrícola, tanto a corto como a largo plazo. Conceptos como el cambio, la adaptación y también la resiliencia proporcionan marcos conceptuales para comprender mejor la forma en que los seres humanos interactúan con su entorno. También ayudan a explicar cómo fenómenos como la introducción inicial de la horticultura simple de cereales …

Preliminary data on systematics and biogeography of Bufo bufo in the Western Mediterranean

2008

City gates of Augustodunum and their architectural models (Gaul, Italy, Western Provinces of the Roman Empire)

2012

Augustodunum, civitas Aeduorum, roman city founded under the reign of Augustus, was equipped with four roman city gates : the gate of Arroux and the gate of Saint André, both well preserved, the gate of Saint Andoche which sole remaining part is a flanking tower, and the gate of Rome, destroyed long ago.The heart of this study lies in the stratigraphic reading of those gates structure and in thoughts about the building site of Autun’s city gates operating process. Moreover, since the 16th century, antiquaries, travelers and artists have described in many ways their visits to the roman city gates of Autun. These accounts constitute a major documentary collection of written and iconographical…

Paliotti d’altare in fili di paglia delle chiese cappuccine della Sicilia occidentale

2018

Degna di nota è l’abilità di alcuni religiosi francescani nell’eseguire opere ornate con fili e frammenti di paglia, materiale povero per eccellenza, facilmente flessibile e dal colore simile all’oro. Pochi nomi emergono nel panorama artistico siciliano relativamente alla lavorazione di paliotti d’altare ornati con tale materiale, uno di questi è Padre Antonino da Bisacquino, ma meritano di venire alla ribalta insieme alle loro creazioni. Very interesting is the ability of some Franciscan religious in executing works adorned with threads and straw fragments, a poor material, easily flexible and with a color similar to gold. Few names emerge in the Sicilian artistic panorama regarding the cr…

Geodetic and geological evidences of activetectonics in western Sicily (Italy): insights onthe seismogenic source of the 1968 Beliceearthquake sequen…

2013

The night between the January 14th and 15th 1968, a wide area of western Sicily (Italy) was shaken by a strong earthquake, the main shock of a seismic crisis that hit the region until the January 25th. The disastrous event, that is the strongest seismic event recorded in Western Sicily in historical times, caused about 370 deaths and the destruction of many villages facing the Belice river valley, which was the epicentral area for this unexpected natural disaster. The seismic sequence consisted of a main shock with M=5.9 and a series of pre-shock and aftershocks that were clustered along a NE-SW alignment. Focal planes solutions provided by many authors in the last decades show controversia…

The majolica production of Northern central Sicily (16th - 18th Century AD): Archaeometric evidence

2007

Architetture lignee per lo spettacolo tra XVII e XVIII secolo a Palermo (Theatral wooden architectures in Palermo during XVIII and XIX centuries)

2016

La realizzazione di architetture per lo spettacolo, stabili o temporanee, interamente realizzate in legno fu una consuetudine sette-ottocentesca diffusa sia in molte grandi città europee sia in centri di minori. Anche a Palermo anfiteatri, teatri-circo e casotti occuparono anche a lungo le piazze del centro storico e grandi edifici "contenitori" pubblici o di facoltosi cittadini, ospitando giochi equestri, spettacoli con animali esotici. La connotazione temporanea suggeriva l'uso del legno a costruttori e progettisti: realizzate rapidamente, potevano con semplicità essere smontate e riproposte altrove. Sebbene si trattasse di "architetture provvisorie", era necessario che fossero non solo s…