Viviendo juntos aparte

A report on the different phases of occupation at the site of Castillejos de Pelegrina in the region of Guadalajara (Spain). Once inhabited by members of the Arevaco tribe, archaeological evidence has revealed that the site was occupied from the 7th to 2nd century BC. This study outlines the history of the site, changes in the nature of the settlement, the construction of its defensive walls, and discusses the domestic and industrial activities that took place. Spanish text.

Vistas a fines del siglo XX, las ciencias sociales presentan un panorama abigarrado y a menudo confuso, de una complejidad que parece inmanejable, como si fuesen campo exclusivo de los profesionales. La idea de este libro es que no es asi: que para ver con claridad conviene tomar distancia y que, en lo importante, la reflexion de las ciencias sociales esta al alcance de casi todos. En un sentido, se trata de un manual: propone una manera ordenada de aproximarse a las diferentes disciplinas y a los temas fundamentales del pensamiento social. Es tambien una meditacion personal y una invitacion...

Clear evidence that sedentary farmers cultivated both maize and manioc in the Colombian Amazon Basin by 2700 B.C. During the first few centuries A.D. a larger population actively managed organic garbage and eventually transported large quantities of silt from the river banks to improve the agricultural yields of the plateau they farmed. Complete text in English and Spanish.

The Codice de Santa Maria Asuncion, one of the most comprehensive native census pictoral manuscripts that has survived from central Mexico, provides a wealth of information on native rural life, social structure, settlement patterns, land tenure, household composition, political and economic organization, and cultural ecology and is one of a handful of remaining examples of indigenous record keeping. A facsimile edition.