ARCHEOLOGY

Author: VIÑAS VALLVERDÚ RAMON.
Year: 2003.
University: BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA I HISTÒRIA , UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA.

Summary: Archeological Research initiated in 1981 in one of the most significant sites of the Mexican Republic, more specifically in the Central Desert dela peninsula of Baja California, on the slope of the Ocean Pacífico.La thesis focuses on the Painted Cave, framed within the style it has been disclosed as the Great Wall. The objectives are focused on three main aspects: the first is the type of formal compositional typological, thematic and sequentially with a comprehensive and detailed documentation of the rock manifestations of this set, the second lies in the interpretation and third in the an archaeological and cultural. The thesis provides a comprehensive database for the investigation of this cultural phenomenon, and in particular the use and development of Painted Cave, a set that is considered as one of the largest ceremonial centers of the groups of prehistoric and pre-Columbian Mexico. Finally raised a proposal to define the framework and cultural tempolral of Painted Cave and intends to call the archaeological contexts, located between 7500 BP and the fifteenth century as the culture of the Great Wall and not as a style more peninsular.

Author: PENA GRAÑA ANDRÉS.
Year: 2004.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA [More theses of this university] [www.usc.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE XEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE XEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.

Summary: On a common Indo-European fund, even without a solution to the Middle Ages, as a result of infiltration and contacts between languages and ideas used by people coastal inveteradamente used as vessels to the Atlantic Ocean and its tributary rivers, there was a capillary , osmotic, uninterrupted, extensive process of socio-cultural and institutional mutual convergence, leading, after an apparent continuous renewal, a constant ebb and flow acumulativo-evolutivo and consolidation or almost obsoluto paralysis of the most natiguas institutions indoeuropeas.Es study and analysis of this process, the purpose of our argument. Not being able to analyze or study in a train long-term culture material, dark per obscuriora isolating and concidiendo "things" either not as elements of isocrónicos models serial and trade exchange between the Mediterranean and Extra-Mediterráneo either as eager consumption, naive transpositions apriorísticas made by a globalized post-industrial society, we believe we study the evidence and material with a method factográfico comparative own acotando and establishing reliable promptemas (groups coherent evidence) or "relational series" integrated systems arqueológicos.Constituyendo as show "things" the material expression of European systems and recording beliefs, compared with fantastic approaches paralógicos, as in 1944 it saw JACOBSTHAL and nearly forty years after it repeated M. Ruth MEGAW and J.vincent S. MEGAW, inducing persistence smile of the Cheshire Cat, frivolous reification of the archaeological area in the taxidermia scientific this force, now deconstructive, outside a promptema could not have limits and other rules as laid down by the fentasía's archaeologist. Applying a generic diacrónico-evolutivo similar to the method used by lingüstica compared very appropriate for the study of myth and institutions, joint cultural systemic obvious, identify, analyze and organize into segments schematic consistent the origin and evolution of a common area institutional Atlantic, perhaps, although we still intended to be, for some time, denied.

Author: VÁZQUEZ MARTÍNEZ M. ANGELES.
Year: 2004.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA [More theses of this university] [www.usc.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA , DEPARTAMENTO DE HISTORIA I.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE XEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Author: CASELLAS CAÑELLAS ELISABETH.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE LLETRES.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Summary: There are many gaps in knowledge of the Olmec. There are no texts or images hitóricas or oral tradition that can be recueperar from documents other peoples. The archaeological context is the longer paper to know that we welcome. The paper wants to move both in chronological knowledge, as in the treatment of a whole style and Olmec culture, analyzing the context of one of the most remarkable archaeological remains, though less common than identify, the colossal heads. The investigation is the first survey conducted after extensive excavations, vertical and horizontal, on the archaeological context of one of the seventeen colossal Olmec heads found in the existing states of Veracruz and Tabasco, in the Gulf Coast of Mexico. The monument SL-53 or head colossal 7 San Lorenzo is particularly interesatne because it was found on the spot in 1969 and subsequently estudaida as one of the heads made from the recycling of an old throne, which still signals niche in his side right, thus indicating the connection between ideological thrones and colossal heads as images of supreme power. In the frame of reference that there was institutionalized power through the authority of an individual (whose symbol was the throne), the recycling of thrones of colossal heads should occur for political reasons and also the walkout of talaldo an colossal head within the set of these monuments that communicate the exercise of political power and ideological in their society, he had produced a change in priorities and provisions of centralized power. The working thesis focuses on retrieving and interpreting the archaeological remains of aconteciemientos and human behavior related to a colossal head occupations that have left earlier, contemporary and post-placement of the monument, in the study area. The first chapter describes in general field of research around the Olmecs, the problems on its home territory, temporalida d and the current state of knowledge. Chapter II introduces the natural context of the area of San Lorenzo from the latest research, developing a new vision on the land and landscape with which lived and acted former human occupations. In chapter III introduces the social context of San Lorenzo (local) and the surrounding area (regional) from the analysis of complex social, public spaces and sculpture as a protagonist of human actions production spaces and public demonstrations of power. Chapter IV is a summary of the registration sculptural on all the 17 warheads found at the centers of Three Zapotes, La Venta and San Lorenzo, with the aim of retrieving information on the package, the sources contrasted with recent research on recycling monuments point possible relations between them from a formal point of view and transmission technique. In Chapters V and VI presents data from the archaeological record of the area where the head was found colossal 7 San Lorenzo. Through an analysis of the stratigraphic sequence and archaeological material, and their frequency distributions in the study area, 8 is obtuv 48c or more information about the monument and its dating, on occupations, the changes and their relationship to the monument and its dating, on occupations, the changes and their relationship to the monument and the role of this system within the socio-cultural Olmec through the different periods. Together these chapters, an appendix with the experimental data on the possible use of sulfur in the process of sculpted.

Author: AULADELL MARQUES JORDI.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.ub.es].
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: Labor's research area of arqueometalúrgia based on the study of a set mostral of iron objects, based on the analysis of which was obtained evidence i scientific data based on the level of technology at the time and location given. The chronological scope includes preibérico, ancient Iberian and full iberico (mid s.VII-IN.S.II.AC). The geographical context is the northeast peninsula, resulted in two specific areas: area 1 (central coast Catalan), Area 2 (delta ebro). Deposits included are: The objectives are to show functions requiring specific treatment: cutting areas, peak effort mechanic typologies their focus on war objects, agricultural, personal and industrial (knives). After correspontiente selection and documentation of all mostral, proceeded to the analytical phase, focusing on the study of various metallographic, samples collected from each subject; in turn, proceeded to studies pralelos type radiographic, microdurezas, electron microscopy and chemical analysis. The results show the existence of specific treatments in ancient materials from S. VII AC It was found using the stacking sheets, as opposed to single block, cementation, the temple in different gradations, recristalización-recocido, and the generic use and intentional steel as improvement of the mechanical properties in specific areas of the goals. This finding highlights the diversity of evolición technological objects like timing and location nearby, and introduces the variable of the presence of material imported from potential imitations, local or imported, but with similar tipologia very poor technical characteristics. In turn presents the heterogeneity of the process in the context of the study and the need for the creation of a corpus analysis of ferrous materials as prelude to a more generic view of the technological evolution of metallurgy protohistorica.

Author: CRUELLS BANZO WALTER.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Summary: The basis of the thesis of three large ceramic from deposits Tell Amarna and Tell Halula in the Euphrates valley and Chagar Bazar in the area of the Khabur. The result of this analysis is a complete catalog of ceramic forms for each of the sites studied and compared to each phase Halaf proposals. Analyzes regional differences observed in the compositions of the series ceramics, its type, its stylistic in the valley of Eurfrates in relation to the valley Khabur. In terms of results, it determines a new phase "Proto-Halaf" which connects directly to the end of the period Pre-Halaf with the emergence of Halaf horizon at the site of Tell Halula around 6000 calibrated BC. At the site of Chagar Bazar, this new phase "Proto-Halaf" represents the first occupation and presents reminiscences of local traditions belonging to the culture of Hassuna III. The determination of this phase "Proto-Halaf" deposits Tell Halula and Chagar Bazar allow propose a model poligenista for the origins of Halaf. It also presents a new framework for periodization of the horizon Halaf based on two major stages: A Halaf (period of training Halaf) and Halaf B (period of development and fullness of Halaf). Finally, it provides a new approach to the absolute chronology of Halaf based on obtaining new funding by radiocarbon in each of the sites. These show that for Tell haluga and Chagar Bazar new phase Proto-halaf would start around 6200/6100 calibrated BC.

Author: SOLAUN BUSTINZA JOSE LUIS.
Year: 2004.
University: PAÍS VASCO [More theses of this university] [www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGIA Y GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGIA Y GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.

Summary: 1. INTRODUCTION The state of affairs relating to the knowledge of medieval pottery in the geographical scope of the Basque country, and more specifically in the province of Alava, is in a stage of uncertainty and vacuum reasoned among other causes for the marginalization that has been been immersed, high priority the study of other cultures or historical stages. A few years ago who had lamented that the data ceramic insurance for the Basque Country were anómalamente scarce, if not non-existent (MATESANZ, 1987, 245) While in other adjacent regions, as Cantabria or Palencia, there had been some progress in the field of ceramics altomedieval mainly as a result of the work of Garcia Guinea in Castellar of Villajimena-, we must recognize that in our area, for a long time, ignorance and disinterest were great. The heavy weight of prehistoric archeology and the almost total absence of researchers concerned about the material culture of the Middle Ages had a lot to do, certainly with that situation. Moreover, many of the studies in the past decades on medieval ceramics in the north and northwestern peninsular relied largely on kits descontextualizados, recovered at levels scrambled or poorly documented stratigraphically genuine "money bag" from the that could hardly put seriaciones sufficiently substantiated. The decade of the 80, however, will mark a major turning point in this trend with progressive diversification of sources of archaeological excavations in medieval chronology, as is the case with the necropolis vizcaínas of Memaia, Momoitio or Mendraka in Bizkaia or settlement Alava Los Castros of Lastra. As a result of this new orientation will light the first studies on ceramic medieval Basque Country, part of a job compilatorio on productions ceramics from this period in the North and North West of the Iberian Peninsula (GARCIA WAY, 1989; SÁENZ OF URTURI , 1989). They point because some of the ideas that characterize the criteria prevailing in the nineties. In recent years, the proliferation of excavations carried out in deposits of this period and specific geographical area -excavaciones using modern recording systems, is allowing get the first sequence stratigraphic closed and, in parallel, the possibility of raising an investigation ceramológica timely informed. In the Basque country, the recent archaeological excavations carried out at the Cathedral of St. Mary of Vitoria, framed within the master plan for its restoration, have helped to bridge the gaps that we referred. With more than 20,000 fragments ceramic collected so far in a sequence stratigraphic closed-embracing materials from Roman times until the XIX century, the Cathedral of St. Mary project will establish a first serialization ceramics production belonging to the historical stages darker , ie from the High Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. 2. METHODOLOGY OF WORK 2.1 .- will be taken as the basis of this thesis archaeological excavations conducted at the Cathedral of St. Mary of Vitoria and nine other sites in Alava (Castros of Lastra (Caranca); Church of San Roman (Tobillas); Ermita de Santa Eufemia. Virgen del Campo (Maestu); The Llana (Labastida); Farm Mavilla (Estavillo); Laurel Street, 11 (Salinillas of Buradón); Street Henry IV, 1 (Rivabellosa); Calle Lope Lopez de Ayala (Rivabe 8 Llosa) and 1cd9 Basilica Armentia (Vitoria), plus two vizcaínos (necropolis Mendraka in Elorrio and necropolis of Momoitio in Garai), which will be revised from estratigrafías between centuries VIII to XIII that from the point sight ceramológico are relevant. The first step in the methodology of job represents, in this way, a comprehensive review of their contexts ceramic, supplemented with the study of other estratigrafías reliable localized sites in the Basque Country. It does not relieve in any case analysis of other settlements in territories bordering and deemed important to contextualize the work of research, case of La Rioja, Navarra, etc.. 2.2 .- Once selected the estratigrafías representative will start the analysis arqueométrico its related repertoires ceramic work that aims to identify the different productions existing ceramics, creating what is called in arqueometría "reference groups." Obtaining these groups is absolutely necessary to transform the information in artifact purely historical information, and therefore in its determination is where the largest effort of analysis. protocol would work as follows: a) Analysis formal. In that differ depending on the types ceramic exclusively on their morphology, or what is the same in the case of pottery, the use for which they were manufactured. Within this section, we believe it necessary to conduct a specific terminology or nomenclature of each party in a container that is made up, which allows to unify criteria when describing pieces, given the subjectivity prevailing in this section. B) Technical analysis and compositional. This is the basic analytical step, and it employs a range of technical resources ranging from the physical characterization by microscopy and / or analysis mineralogic, direct comparison with the reference groups posed in the study of other collections or the analysis of chemical characterization , which generally uses the techniques ray diffraction Xoa atomic absorption spectrometry. C) Finally focuses on the analysis of the various decorative resources associated with the various productions. 2.3 .- The third paragraph in the study we propose is aimed at completing the definition of "reference groups" including his characterization physicochemistry the time factor. Therefore at this stage will address issues relating to the cronoestratigrafía, whose definition will take into account both the time concerning themselves each unit or reservoir, such as those obtained from the comparative analysis undertaken with other collections. 2.4 .- defined all the parameters that have to differentiate each of the "reference groups", the information will be ready to be subjected to statistical analysis, analysis where the combination of all these data from prospects quantitative, qualitative and similarity -tenemos intend to experiment and the potential utility of cluster analysis for these ends will allow us to interpret from historical parameters, taking into account the diversity of properties covered, may determine such diverse issues as: the origin of the different geological productions , and therefore whether or not they have been the subject of trade, the degree of dominance that its producers had the technical ceramics, the presence or absence of changes in eating habits or the timing of each of the different groups. 2.5. The result is the design of pottery from a twofold: firstly, as a taxonomic tool (fósil-guía), and also as a tool hermeneutics (historic document). 3. PROBLEM TO BE RAISED The uncertainty in the field of medieval pottery is, as described in the introductory chapter, great. It is not surprising, therefore, to continue production in qualifying time brackets so wide that are virtually useless or publish some productions with errors secondment of several centuries. This situation has not been reached, however, coincidentally. It is therefore necessary to be aware of the causes that have generated and to rectify. It must be rectified, for instance, some behaviors that have consistently prioritized productions "fine" - to the detriment of the common response to stylistic criteria that are clearly insufficient. We must also correct certain attitudes methodological, designing ceramics not only as indicators but as time indicators, too, and cultural transformations result of changing production cycles. Forgetting this has resulted, for example, do not understand that the similarities between the ceramic protohistóricas and altomedievales not due to any revival born of strange impulses atávicas but similar production cycles, which, of course, compels us to reflect on the contexts historical and socio-economic circumstances that generated. As has been pointed out repeatedly, however, soon we can move in the investigation - and we are thinking specifically in the investigation of the centuries altomedievales- until they become ceramics relatively reliable indicator time. And this requires achieving, first, and the publication later in archaeological contexts defined as those in the Cathedral of St. Mary. 4. OBJECTIVES Based on the problem, the objectives that we must meet the doctoral dissertation to be presented are as follows: 1. Creation of the above "reference groups" to identify the productions ceramics produced in this period and area. That is, develop a systematic productions ceramics held in the Basque Country over the centuries VIII to XIII, based estratigrafías closed reliable. 2. Designing ceramics not only as indicators but as time indicators also sociocultural transformation and the result of changing production cycles. 3. Open channels of historical research as extensive as the geologic origins of the different productions, and hence whether or not they have been the subject of trade, the degree of dominance that its producers had the technical ceramics, determining the use of containers, etc. .

Author: Armada Pita Xosé Lois.
Year: 2004.
University: A CORUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.udc.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Humanidades.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Humanidades.

Summary: This thesis deals with the study of the rituals of commensal of the Indo-European societies of NO and N Plateau of the Iberian peninsula, using as a main source instrumentation cash (tableware, grilling, meat hooks, sicupula, etc..). It also considered other sources of additional information as iconography epigraphs or sources grecolatinas. The work was organized into four parts: 1 .- Historiography and theoretical problems and methodological 2 .- Study of instrumental metal 3 .- Information Sources additional 4 .- Interpretation and Conclusions

Author: BARREIRO MARTÍNEZ DAVID.
Year: 2004.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA [More theses of this university] [www.usc.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: We present a theoretical proposal oriented design of a theory of management of the archaeological heritage. Through a research program, called Archeology and Society, aims backbone of a proposed action for Archeology Applied understood as an archeology which come back in the fields of research and management, with a potential claim of epistemological axiological of archeology and management, and greater involvement in the social life of the academic archeology. To that end, it conducts an analysis of the current situation of archeology and its division into three sectors professionals (academia, government and independent professionals), and two traditions that have been seen as dichotomous (archeology humanistic academic and face archeology management). It reconstructs this dichotomy appearance until placed in the traditional division between fields of knowledge and technology. It presents a critical view of the technical soundness and cognitivo-instrumental as theoretical premise for proposing an archeology understood as a technology for the comprehensive management (socialization) of the archaeological heritage. This criticism has come under the critical tradition of modern philosophical thought, for the implementation stage, in the context of political proposals for modernization reflexive (sustainable development and environmental assessment) and the actual practice modernize. To do so, developing theoretical content and the proposals for action (of interest for the management of the archaeological heritage) summarized in the Spanish Strategy for Sustainable Development, as well as existing legislation (and pending approval) in the field of environment protection environment and archaeological heritage. Examples of actions are proposed in the proposed theoretical framework which is the centerpiece of work: a model for assessing impact on the cultural heritage and a real example of this type of action, which appreciate the contradictions in practice in the discursive that fall, as well as an example of integrative proposals as organizing a series of workshops between different professional sectors, aimed at normalization methodological discipline in the management area.

Author: GARCÍA GARRIGA JOAN.
Year: 2004.
University: ROVIRA I VIRGILI [More theses of this university] [www.urv.cat].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE LETRAS - UNIV. DE ROVIRA I VIRGILI DE TARRAGONA.

Summary: This Doctoral thesis entitled: Technology and variability of lithic industries middle and upper Pleistocene Initial northeast of the Iberian Peninsula and southeastern France: Level G of Caune de l'Aragó, Selva and basins Roselló, and Ter lake Banyoles, whose main objectives scientists studying the technological processes Palaeolithic lower in these geographic areas and their involvement in the conduct paleoecosocial of prehistoric human societies. Starting with the study of deposits that are located in different ecosystems (valleys Tautavel, Roseellón, Ter, and the Jungle of Banyoles lake basin), and their industries from sedimentary deposits preserved in cave (G level of Caune of l 'Arago) or coat (lower Mollet I) in the open air on the surface of former paleosols (Puig d'Esclats, Casa Nova d'en Feliu and Can Burgés) in flood river valleys (Domeny Industrial), foot deposits dismantled by dynamic aspect of erosive (Costa Cross, Mas d'en Galí and Puig d'en Rock III) and in ancient river terraces fossil (Mas Ferréol terraces, the Plane d'en Bougart and the Butte du Four-Llabanère), addresses these problems ties reflection and conceptualization of methodological tools System Lógico-Analítico. The scenario that is presented to define the evolutionary dynamics of the industries Pleistocene middle and upper initial in the northeast and southeast peninsular French tour environment of the interrelationship between technology which provides the Operating Systems Technical bifaces and Levallois one hand and among those who developed other instruments and alternative operating systems on the other. It proposes an evolutionary pattern characterized by dynamism and flexibility adaptive all of the industries studied, leaving evidence in open conceptual limitations of the modes that Graham Clark (1977) defined. These approaches have implications for the behavioral patterns in the cultural sense of territoriality and subsystems, which are defined as the presence of many of the same technological structures operational and conceptual or "traditions techniques" in the same unit or regional ecological during the Palaeolithic lower . The proposal is also based on a general model of settlement and occupation of the territory based on the existence of communities homínidas deeply rooted in the permanent life in the same biotopes and ecological systems (regions in the broad sense of the word). His maximal exploitation and utilization during the middle and upper Pleistocene initial due allow subsistence and development of populations that could be perpetuated in different areas along the lower Palaeolithic. This would be ultimately a purely structural environmental performance, which would define the human communities that generated records litotécnicos studied, and is based on the existence of a complex network of territories and regions hierarchical, well-organized, but separated from them - not landforms serve as bordering areas or border, but for the existence of populations culturally diferenciadas-. The results obtained in the analysis litotécnicos also allowed documenting patterns adaptive differential (reflected in the degree of variability technological industries) between the various geographical areas by l 8 os homín 4bf gone mesopleistocenos. The empirical data that have allowed defend this hipóstesis come from the study of three parameters: the catchment areas of the raw materials needed for height -destaca the existence of strictly local recruitment patterns of rocas-, analysis production systems technicians of each regional unit, and the interval diachronic obtained for these settlements, both concerning timing, and through the application of the techniques of dating absolute.

Author: Utrero Agudo María de los Ángeles.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID [More theses of this university] [www.uam.es].
Place of defense: Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología.

Summary: The recent renovation and methodological explaining Archeology Peninsular dedicated to the study of ecclesiastical architecture of the times and tardoantigua altomedieval carries the necessary revision of registration material this extensive period. From a historical basis which highlights the main challenges and developments in current and traditional archeology in this area, an analysis of the architectural culture from different approaches. First proposes an approach to the architectural elements at formal and structural as a prelude to further study of systems abovedamiento to which they give rise, understood them as structural and functional solutions, not merely formal. The identification of different systems over five centuries (Ss VX), as well as the constructive knowledge of the models that originate, pursues and tries to prove its eventual use as indicators of historical architecture surrounded by a strong chronological discussion and interpretative.

Author: PRADOS MARTINEZ FERNANDO.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID [More theses of this university] [www.uam.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.

Summary: The work deals with a plot as little studied architecture Punic of monumental character. Through the completion of fieldwork and analysis of historiographic has raised a study of the funerary monuments of nature turriforme in the North African area, primarily in the vicinity of the city of Carthage (Tunisia) nuclear hotbed of culture Punic. It has also analyzed the architectural precedents of these models were developed primarily constructive in the area siriopalestina and southern Anatolia. Subsequently, it has applied the same method of analysis on some models turriformes southeast of the Iberian peninsula date from the third century BC The Roman conquest and demonstrating the impact of the architectural influences (typological and technology) and cultural world púnico in the Iberian culture and its subsequent screening in the funerary monuments built in the same regions and in Roman times.

Author: González Reyero Susana.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID [More theses of this university] [www.uam.es].
Place of defense: Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología.
Place of preparation: Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Summary: It examines the historical process by which the photograph was incorporated into the historical and archaeological studies in Spain, between 1860 and 1960. From a dual perspective. On the one hand, the successive phases -cronológicaas or conceptuales that this photographic technique was applied to archaeological science in the aforementioned period, and secondly, the different uses and implications of their arrival and implementation had to study historical Spaniards. To understand this process has also been discussed how it developed in other countries auropeos, devoted several chapters to the case of France, Great Britain and Italy. It also has considered other forms of analysis and description of reality such as drawings, and emptied the molds and their impact on the Archeology Spanish. They also attended the role d ela dissemination of findings and theories through talks and lectures, museum exhibit and, ultimately, the role d ela fotgrafía in shaping a global framework for discussion archaeological and in the shaping of a collective memory national heritage. Another chapter is devoted to know the files or fototecas with photographs of archaeological character which exist in Spain and in some countries overseas funds on Archeology Spanish. Recensionar highlighted the usefulness of these centers and its funds due to the absence of a body similar in Spain. Therefore the thesis has done an unprecedented tour for a historical process-the application of photography to archeology in Spain of great importance and that helped change and shape the science we know today.

Author: CABRERA PÉREZ LUIS LEONEL.
Year: 2004.
University: ZARAGOZA [More theses of this university] [www.unizar.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: THE STUDY IS IN THE CENTRAL MANIFESTATIONS PREHISTÓRICAS SOUTH OF BRAZIL AND THE EASTERN REGION URUGUAY, DURING THE LAST 4,000 YEARS. THE DEMONSTRATION ARQUEOLÓGICA MORE VISIBILITY TO UNDERSTAND REFERRED TO AS "CERRITOS OF INDIAN" MOUNDS TO COVER THE REGION BY THOUSANDS, WHICH TESTIMONIAN THE "ARCHITECTURE. GROUND" GROUPS OF HUMAN TO THOUSANDS OF YEARS IN THE REGION peopled, ALCANZANDO LEVELS DEVELOPMENT OF TYPE SOCIOCULTURAL "FORMATIVO." DISCUSS IT IS THE STRUCTURES, PATTERNS SOCIO-ECONOMIC, Remnants, FUNEBRIA, ETC. A WAY OF BACKGROUND OF ABORDAJE REGIONAL IS PROVIDED A SUMMARY OF THE RESEARCH archaeological finds NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST OF ARGENTINA, BRAZIL AND SOUTH OF A SUMMARY OF PREHISTORY URUGUAYA: RESULTS ACHIEVED, THE THEORETICAL MARCOS, METHODOLOGIES AND CULTURAL POLICY (STATUTORY FRAMEWORK) , FROM WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN THE INTERVENTION ON SUCH AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CULTURAL HERITAGE, PUTTING IN VALUE, PROTECTION AND SOCIALIZACIÓN.

Author: PAPÍ RODES CONCEPCIÓN.
Year: 2005.
University: ALICANTE [More theses of this university] [www.ua.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: It deals with the study of literature Aureliano Ibarra and Manzoni as one of the leading figures in archeology alincantina of the time. It analyzes all its scientific papers, with a special emphasis on their key monograph llici their situation and antiques and set nearly one hundred articles in the newspaper. The constitution, which maintains a struggle on the location of the former llici with writer Francis Papí Jover. It reconstructs the history of their exacavaciones in the archaeological site of The Alcudía, Elche, site of the former llici, through documentation found at the Municipal Historical Archive of Elche and at the Royal Academy of History, among others. On the other hand, deals with the documentation of the so-called "Ibarra Collection" that after his death the State found its heir, becoming part of the funds from the National Archaeological Museum in 1892. This important set pieces remained virtually no catalog to date: This paper addresses the scientific documentation of the parts that compose it and considers all documentation relating to the same both in the museum and in other centers and archival research .

Author: FUERTES SANTOS MARÍA DEL CAMINO.
Year: 2005.
University: PABLO DE OLAVIDE [More theses of this university] [www.upo.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES (DEPARTAMENTO DE GEOGRAFÍA, HISTORIA Y FILOSOFÍA).

Summary: The main objective of this Doctoral Thesis has been developing a systematic typology of the ways of medieval times ceramics deposit Cercadilla, so that from its morphological characteristics, and in some cases, decorative, that could determining the precise chronological arc in which they were made. Thus, we have entered the knowledge of the kind of people who occupied this site Cordoba during the medieval period. The end result has been the creation of a single body in ceramic that have been grouped, sorted and dated, most of the ways medieval ceramics recovered from Cercadilla. However, even if the core of this work is the systematization of the ceramic typology, we did not want to shelve the context histórico-arqueológico with which it relates, and the ceramic studio is preceded by a detailed review of the urban environment and household in which recovered materials. Under explained what we could split the argument into two large blocks, interrelated and imbrincados one another: occupation medieval domestic and medieval ceramics associated with it.

Author: Rodrigo Requena Esther.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Filosofia i Letras.
Place of preparation: Fa. de Filosofia y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Summary: This thesis is an exploration of the territory immediately to the nucleus Roman Iesso (Guissona, The Segarra), up from time Iberian Late Antiquity. We have focused on the study arqueomorfológico territory with special attention to the study of regressive path and the current land division to be able to analyze in detail the current landscape elements which correspond to previous arrangements, and specifically to the Roman era. Cities have constituted the subject of investigation for generations of arqueólogis who have devoted themselves to rebuilding urban models on which were based. But the introduction of new disciplines and the extension of the objectives of the research have become increasingly apparent that a city is not composed exclusively by the urban core, but also across a territory that depended on it; is therefore absolutely necessary for the study of the cities of Roman times, understand the relationship between city and countryside. The investigation has revealed that the foundation of Iesso involves planning and installation of a land division centuriado that completely transforms the surrounding landscape and leads to changes in the patterns of settlement prior to the founding of the Roman city. This land division responds to the model most widespread in the provincial territory, centuración, which in our case module responds to centuries of 20 x 20 actus. This land division will be operational from the end of the first century BC, during the entire period up to an imperial moment advanced Under Empire that probably witnessed its gradual disintegration. The evolution of the Iberian settlement from time to the end of the Roman world has become necessary to undertake a review of all archaeological sites in the area covered by our investigation that would allow them to clarify and determine changes in the structure and management in rural areas. The results of this study has allowed for the first time to have a reliable chronology of all deposits in the area and thereby make a periodization of the same. Also, as it has been possible with the data obtained has been the classification and description of the types of these rural settlements.

Author: ZAMORA MORENO M. DOLORES.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA, FACULTAT DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: One of the most singular and joint archaeological remarkable period of Iberian located in the northeastern part of the current Catalan territory, which is located in the term municipal Cabrera of the Sea, a small town that is far about 25km from the city of Barcelona. This municipality, from the point geographically, highlights a modest depression that opens to the sea, framed by a series of low-lying hills not exceeding 400m, which concentrate a large amount of deposits arqueologícos period ibérica-siglos VI - BC This territory was part of a natural population centers of antigà ¼ age most important pre belonging to the ethnic group of Iberians layetanos. In a little more than about 60 hectares, archaeological work, and going back to the late nineteenth century, have helped locate and meet a broad-oppidum of about 10 hectares-located in the mountains of Burriac who chairs and dominates the valley, series of small rural settlements in the vicinity of the oppidum, two huge fields of silos and many other silos, in a less concentrated, are scattered through the area, three cemeteries, a cave shrine and a number of surveillance and defense among them an impressive tower isolation. The work is meant to be an exercise in data collection, management and interpretation essentially archaeological and historical as possible, which could mean this enclave across the Layetania Iberian. His meticulous and thorough analysis has enabled us to develop a theoretical proposal territorial organization and settlement patterns that seem to demonstrate a premeditated design, the characteristics of the wealthy territory, which is complex at the same time pragmatic course in the management, distribution and functionality that resulted in conceiving the territorial occupation. The uniqueness of the enclave seems to mark a huge difference between this and other areas layetanas which, a priori, is unique and allows theorize about its uniqueness, its locks and its significance with respect to the remaining areas of the Layetania. The confluence in this small valley all these exceptional elements makes clear and evident, in our opinion, that it is the center of political power in the Iberian layetanos.

Author: MIRÓ ALAIX M. TERESA.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE GEOGRAFÍA I HISTÒRIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT DE GEOGRAFIA I HISTÒRIA.

Summary: Study ática pottery figures and ornately decorated from the Greek colony of Empúries. We studied and cataloged 3680 copies coming delas official excavations carried out in Empúries since 1908, as well as other exhumed prior to this date mainly from the necropolis amburitanas. It analyzes the contexts estratigraficos, shapes, painters, the scenes and inscriptions conclusions on establishing business contacts between Emporión and settlements on the Iberian Peninsula and the South of France, from the arrival of ceramic ática red figures to Empúriles, distribution, its supply, the relationship Emporión with other Greek cities of the Western Mediterranean and the role of ceramics ática as merchandise, IV, V and over the centuries BC.

Author: MAURICI FERDINANDO.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.ub.es].