El principal objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es devolver la agencia a las poblaciones sicilianas de la primera mitad del I Milenio a.C. mediante el análisis de sus dinámicas sociales y políticas. En particular, estudiar ...

La colonisation des Possessions espagnoles du golfe de Guinée entraîne la mise en rapport de civilisations hétérogènes et d’hommes ethniquement et culturellement différents. Aussi, en favorisant la circulation de l’information ...

This thesis provides a description and a pragmatic analysis of the expression and interpretation of focus and contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). I argue that LSC data provides empirical evidence that contrast is an ...

As a psycho-spatial phenomenon, the inner geographies has seldom been investigated due to its abstract, intangible, and somewhat elusive nature, thereby evading definitive explanation. To derive a better understanding of ...

In pre-Columbian times thousands of raised and ditched agricultural fields were built in the seasonally inundated savannah of the Llanos de Moxos, southwestern Amazonia. How they functioned is still poorly understood. An ...

This dissertation studies the role of music making in the social construction of the city within the paradigm of the experience economy. Music making as collective organization of sound that requires decisions of what is ...

During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) the Spanish launched an unprecedented guerrilla insurgency that undermined Napoleon’s grip on that state. The advent of this novel and illegal “system” of warfare ushered in an era of ...

The purpose of this PhD thesis is to understand the role of Crete in the economic exchange between Phoenicians and Greeks in the Aegean during the 1st millennium BC. An analysis of the materials found at the site of Kommos ...

Este trabajo está dedicado al estudio de la arquitectura doméstica de los yacimientos del valle del Habur (Siria), durante el periodo que va desde el Neolítico hasta el segundo milenio a.C. Basándonos en la información ...