The exhibition “Atapuerca: our ancestors” was presented at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid, Spain) during 1999-2000. The objective of this exhibition was to show the discoveries made at the paleoanthropological site of Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). In Atapuerca, one of the most important Pleistocene sites of the world, more than 3,000 human fossils dated around 300,000 years old h...

In Early Modern Persian prose and verse, verbs with a present stem accompanied by grapheme "-y" have been used to express modal concepts of imperative and command or invocation and request. Researchers, regardless of the historical changes of Early Modern Persian, believe that this structure of  subjunctive 2nd person singular has been used to express imperative mood, and that &q...

Entre los procesos de ‘autorización’ dramaturgas y obras que aún se consideran ‘menores’, las traducciones adaptaciones representan manipulaciones virtuosas capaces socavar renovar el sistema valores determinan instancias canonicidad. El presente artículo propone explorar algunas derivas contemporáneas la comedia conde Partinuplés (1653) Ana Caro dos primeros entreactos en prosa Tragicomedia ja...

Abstract Astrology played an important part in early modern European culture, as a fundamental of both mathematical and astronomical traditions. During the same period, Society Jesus built their global educational enterprise, which included proven expertise study. Although insufficiently acknowledged Jesuit historiography, astrology formed this scientific project. Several authors engaged study,...

The quest for precious metals and trade routes during the early modern period fundamentally changed world. What was global impact of large deposits silver gold which existed in Americas? In this chapter, we take a view. We find that Europe, England Netherlands benefited most. By contrast, colonizers par excellence, Spain Portugal, were unable to profit from their colonial expansion. Latin Ameri...

This article compares the books about Lifes of Thomas More written by Roper and Harpsfield work Tomás Moro Fernando de Herrera. The comparison is taken as a case in point divergent early development biographical genre England Spain. three texts were Catholic humanists, but under different contexts, which produced kinds text. Roper’s Harpsfield’s Catholicism, marked close contact with Morean tra...

The change of territorial organisation in the 18th century Spain was strongly related to preservation local heritage. Academic architects, military engineers, and master builders coexisted carry out design management municipal construction works. evolution figure builder confrontation with architects guilds since creation Royal Academy Fine Arts San Fernando posed an inflection point this aspec...

Remarkably little is known about the population-level processes leading up to the extinction of the neandertal. To examine this, we use mitochondrial DNA sequences from 13 neandertal individuals, including a novel sequence from northern Spain, to examine neandertal demographic history. Our analyses indicate that recent western European neandertals (<48 kyr) constitute a tightly defined group wi...

With The Royal Touch in Early Modern England: Politics, Medicine and Sin, Stephen Brogan offers a new understanding of the royal touch – the ability of kings and queens to miraculously heal their subjects of particular diseases in 16th and especially 17th-century England. ‘Greater numbers of people were touched for scrofula during the Restoration by both Charles II and James II, and with greate...