Creación da Coordinadora de Equipos de Normalización e Dinamización Lingüística do Barbanza

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At the edge of the marshes: new approaches to the Sado Valley Mesolithic (Southern Portugal)

Among the major European concentrations of Mesolithic settlements, the lower Sado valley is one of the least known. Despite the development of large systematic excavations in the mid twentieth century and recent attempts to re-examine some sites, only very partial information is available. Yet there are valuable unpublished archaeological collections in the National Museum of Archaeology in Lisbon, and the preservation of most of the sites is quite satisfactory. Moreover, the Sado shell middens are located in a very particular geographical setting, which opens up very interesting questions on the role of coastal and inland resources and landscapes among late hunter-gatherers. Since 2010, a Luso-Spanish interdisciplinary team has been systematically re-appraising this area within the framework of a research project on the transition to the Neolithic in coastal areas of SW Atlantic Europe. The project design and the preliminary results of the first fieldwork seasons are presented in this paper.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

From trivium to smart education

[EN] Rethinking the classics for thinking the future. This could be the compendium of the present article, in which we propose a revision of the immediate future of education based on the classic project of the Trivium. We will analyze, first, the transformation of education in the perspective of smart education, determined by the impact of technology and by the reflection on the competences of the 21st century; secondly, we will review the strategic and methodological proposals in accordance with this transformation, based on the theory of generative learning; thirdly, from the point of view of contents, we will analyse the impor- tance of core digital skills as programming and computational thinking. On this basis, the paper offers a proposal from a dual perspective. Firstly, by rethinking the main issues of education in the light of the history of the Trivium and the epistemological principles that shaped it. Secondly, by proposing the recovery of the Trivium disciplines (Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic) having in mind the debate on the competences of the 21st century, as the best instrument to enrich the current educational systems, especially in view of the challenges of digitalization

El dolmen del Alto de Lodos (Rasines, Cantabria)

La excavación del dolmen del Alto de Lodos ha proporcionado los primeros datos para el estudio del Fenómeno Megalítico en Cantabria. Se trata de un dolmen sencillo con cámara de tipo cistoide y un túmulo formado por acumulación de piedras, con algunas lajas colocadas en sentido oblícuo, cuya función debió ser la contención de la masa pétrea. La violación del monumento que ha deteriorado parte de su estructura no ha permitido documentar depósitos intactos; no obstante, algunos de los elementos líticos recuperados corresponden a restos de ajuar y permiten sugerir, por relación con los aparecidos en contextos relacionables, una datación para la utilización del dolmen quizá en la transición del cuarto al tercer milenio a.e.The excavation of the dolmen Alto de Lodos has provided the first data for the study of the Megalithic Phenomenon in Cantabria. It is a simple dolmen with a cystoid type chamber and a tomb formed by accumulation of stones, with some slabs placed obliquely, whose function must have been the containment of the stone mass. The violation of the monument, that has deteriorated part of its structure, has not allowed us to document intact deposits. However, some of the lithic elements recovered correspond to remains of trousseau and allow us to suggest, by relation with those found in nearby contexts, a dating for the use of the dolmen, perhaps in the transition from the fourth to the third millennium a.e

Flint ‘figurines’ from the Early Neolithic site of Kharaysin, Jordan

During the Early Neolithic in the Near East, particularly from the mid ninth millennium cal BC onwards, human iconography became more widespread. Explanations for this development, however, remain elusive. This article presents a unique assemblage of flint artefacts from the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (eighth millennium BC) site of Kharaysin in Jordan. Contextual, morphological, statistical and use-wear analyses of these artefacts suggest that they are not tools but rather human figurines. Their close association with burial contexts suggests that they were manufactured and discarded during mortuary rituals and remembrance ceremonies that included the extraction, manipulation and redeposition of human remains.This research is funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, the Agencia Estatal de Investigación, the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Project numbers: HAR2016-74999-P, PGC2018-096634-B-I00, RYC-2016-21108. The fieldwork is funded by the Palarq Foundation. J.S. was funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (European Commission GA 750460; H2020-MSCA-IF-2016). We also acknowledge support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI).Peer reviewe

Squaring the Circle. Social and Environmental Implications of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Building Technology at Tell Qarassa (South Syria)

We present the results of the microstratigraphic, phytolith and wood charcoal study of the remains of a 10.5 ka roof. The roof is part of a building excavated at Tell Qarassa (South Syria), assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (PPNB). The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period in the Levant coincides with the emergence of farming. This fundamental change in subsistence strategy implied the shift from mobile to settled aggregated life, and from tents and huts to hard buildings. As settled life spread across the Levant, a generalised transition from round to square buildings occurred, that is a trademark of the PPNB period. The study of these buildings is fundamental for the understanding of the ever-stronger reciprocal socio-ecological relationship humans developed with the local environment since the introduction of sedentism and domestication. Descriptions of buildings in PPN archaeological contexts are usually restricted to the macroscopic observation of wooden elements (posts and beams) and mineral components (daub, plaster and stone elements). Reconstructions of microscopic and organic components are frequently based on ethnographic analogy. The direct study of macroscopic and microscopic, organic and mineral, building components performed at Tell Qarassa provides new insights on building conception, maintenance, use and destruction. These elements reflect new emerging paradigms in the relationship between Neolithic societies and the environment. A square building was possibly covered here with a radial roof, providing a glance into a topologic shift in the conception and understanding of volumes, from round-based to square-based geometries. Macroscopic and microscopic roof components indicate buildings were conceived for year-round residence rather than seasonal mobility. This implied performing maintenance and restoration of partially damaged buildings, as well as their adaptation to seasonal variability.MICINN (HAR2011-21545-C02-01) The last hunter-gatherers and the first producing societies in Central and Southern Syria, the Ministry of Culture Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage (Excavations Abroad), the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, JAEDoc (contracts for A. Balbo), SimulPast Consolider and European Social Found, the Basque Government (Pre-doctoral grant Number: BFI.09.249 for A. Arranz), Basque Government-Research Group UPV/EHU IT-288-07 (L. Zapata), UFI11/09 Cuaternario of the UPV/EHU and Project HAR2011-23716 (I+D+i), Programa de Movilidad del Personal Investigador del Gobierno Vasco 2012, AGRIWESTMED (European Research Council funded) (contract for C. Lancelotti)

El poblado naviforme de Cap de Barbaria II (Formentera, Islas Baleares). Nuevos datos sobre su cronología y secuencia de ocupación

We present a series of six radiocarbon dates from the site of Cap de Barbaria II (Formentera, Balearic Islands). These place its occupation in the Bronze Age. In addition, methodological aspects of date calibration according to the nature of the samples (animal bone and shell) are discussed. This information defines chronological time span of the Naviform societies in the islands of Ibiza and Formentera and provides important elements for the understanding the formation, development, and end of these societies throughout the Balearic archipelago.En este trabajo presentamos un conjunto de 6 fechas de carbono 14 del poblado de Cap de Barbaria II (Formentera, Islas Baleares), que permiten acotar su ocupación dentro de la Edad del Bronce. Además, se tratan aspectos metodológicos relativos a la calibración e interpretación de las fechas en función de la naturaleza de las muestras (hueso y concha). La información delimita cronológicamente el grupo arqueológico naviforme en las islas Pitiusas (Ibiza y Formentera) y proporciona datos importantes para la comprensión de su formación, desarrollo y extinción en el conjunto del archipiélago balear

Re-evaluating the Neolithic: The Impact and the Consolidation of Farming Practices in the Cantabrian Region (Northern Spain)

Abstract:Research projects undertaken in the Cantabrian region since 1980 have produced new, high-quality information about the neolithisation process(es) in this area. It is now necessary to review this archaeological information and test the main hypotheses put forward to explain it. This paper presents an update on the archaeological evidence (sites, chronological dates, archaeozoological, archaeobotanical and technological information) for the early Neolithic in the Cantabrian region. It summarizes recent research on neolithisation in the region, and assesses the impact of this process during the early Neolithic, and its later consolidation. Although the available information is still incomplete, it is now possible to identify the focal point of the introduction of elements characteristic of the Neolithic way of life in the region. Current evidence suggests that it is in the eastern sector, where the earliest arrival of domesticates and new technologies such as pottery has been attested. The existence of continuities?such as sustained reliance on hunting and gathering and the coexistence of old and new funerary rites?suggests the persistence of native populations, which gradually participated in the neolithisation process after an ?availability phase?

Les occupations du natoufien et du PPNB ancien à Qarassa (Suweida, Syrie du sud). Premiers résultats et perspectives

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