La voz de los vencidos

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Francis Bacon advirtió de que los hombres que han alcanzado altas posiciones acaban siendo extraños a sí mismos. Consideraba que a la ardua ascensión de los poderosos seguía inevitablemente un eclipse que derivaba en "cosa melancólica", pues resulta muy difícil resignarse a la vida privada y al retiro. Montaigne confesaba en sus ensayos que en su dedicación a los otros, a la política, no pudo evitar apartarse de sí mismo. ¿Por qué tantos hombres de sabiduría se han metido en política?, se pregunta el autor, en clara alusión a su propia experiencia.Casi todos los intelectuales...

El antiguo Egipto es una de las civilizaciones más fascinantes y sofisticadas de la historia conocida. Los antiguos egipcios son recordados por sus dioses, pirámides, faraones, momificación, jeroglíficos, agricultura y mucho más.

This study is a highly innovative body of research on the supply of raw material in prehistoric Iberia. The archaeological assemblages from recently excavated sites in north-eastern Spain are clearly presented, as are the various methods for the characterisation of flints and the determination of geological origins. The study is important in terms of the new data provided on raw material supply at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia and a reconstruction of mobility patterns and resource exploitation of hunter-gatherer groups during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. In Spanish.