La industria lítica del núcleo urbano maya de La Blanca, Petén, Guatemala

This book pf Professor Allan R. Brewer-Carías, is a recollection of his Speeches and Lectures delivered on matters of History and Constitutionalism, between 1986 and 2026, before the Consejo de Estado of Spain, and before four Spanish Academies: (the Academia de la Historia y Arte de San Quirce of Segovia, the Real Academia Valenciana de Jurisprudencia y Legislación of Valencia, the Real Academia de Legislación y Jurisprudencia de Madrid, and Real Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras of Cádiz. The book also includes his Speeches given on the occasion of receiving doctor...

This book captures the most stunning studies, the difficulties, the dangers, and the experiences during a 10-year period of travel and expeditions. Author Juan Jesus Vallejo journeys across five continents, giving us a glimpse into the pyramids in Peru that are older than the Egyptian pyramids; the first human temples with more than 10,000 years of history, discovered in the dusty fields of Kurdistan; and the largest and most puzzling painted rocks on the planet, in nearly unexplored areas of the Sahara. An endless stream of riddles, anecdotes, and facts, this book demonstrates that the world ...

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

Para los mexicas la causa de muerte era un marcador importante para definir el siguiente destino de las entidades anímicas. Ellos veían en este fenómeno un paso transitorio dentro de un ciclo que tenía que ver con un sistema universal. Desde la creación del hombre, cuya parte esencial se tomó del Mictlan o inframundo, hasta alguna de las moradas para los muertos como puede ser el Tlalocan o paraíso terrenal, esta mitología conforma un circuito que responde a la observación de los ciclos vitales como la agricultura y los astros. Luego de un largo proceso de sincretismo tras la...