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  1. Greek Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula: Archaic and Classical Periods by Adolfo J. Dominguez, Carmen Sanchez, et all 2001-02
  2. Native Religion under Roman Domination: Deities, springs and mountains in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula (bar s) by Elizabeth Richert, 2005-12-31
  3. Early Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula BAR-S1857 (bar s) by Mariana Diniz, 2008-12-31
  4. Graphical Markers and Megalith Builders in the International Tagus, Iberian Peninsula BAR IS1765 (bar s) by Rodrigo de Balbin-Berhmann, Rosa Barroso-Bermejo, et all 2008-12-31
  5. Non-Flint Stone Tools and the Palaeolithic Occupation of the Iberian Peninsula (bar s) by N. Moloney, L. Raposo, et all 1996-12-31
  6. Prehistoric Mining and Metallurgy in SW Iberian Peninsula (bar s) by MArk A Hunt Ortiz, 2003-12-10
  7. Technical Systems of Lithic Production in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula: Technological variability between north-eastern sites and Sierra de Atapuerca sites (bar s) by Xose Pedro Rodriguez, 2004-12-31
  8. Tecnologia litica del Paleolitico inferior del noreste de la Peninsula Iberica y sureste de Francia (bar s) by Joan Garcia Garriga, 2010-12-31
  9. Territorio Neolitico. Las primeras comunidades campesinas en la fachada oriental de la peninsula Iberica (ca. 5600-2800 cal BC) (bar s) by Gabriel Garcia Atienzar, 2009-12-31
  10. Iconografia nautica de la Peninsula Iberica en la Protohistoria (bar s) by Arturo Rey da Silva, 2009-12-31
  11. Hernando de Soto: Conquistador, Mississippi River, Southeastern United States, Lake Village, Arkansas, Hidalgo (Spanish nobility),Extremadura, Reconquista, Iberian Peninsula
  12. Heraldry for the Dead: Memory, Identity, and the Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia by Katina T. Lillios, 2008-09-01
  13. Santuarios y Rituales en la Hispania Celtica BAR S1963 by Silvia Alfaye Villa, 2009-12-31
  14. Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations

81. University Of Sydney Library Collections & Resources Policy
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82. Coastal Europe—Iberian Peninsula, Bilbao, Dordogne Valley, Brittany, And Norman
Coastal Europeiberian peninsula, Bilbao, Dordogne Valley, Brittany, and Normandy Perched on the end of the iberian peninsula, in the westernmost corner of Europe, Portugal has
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83. Coastal Europe—Iberian Peninsula, Bilbao, Dordogne Valley, Brittany, And Norman
Interest. Coastal Europe—iberian peninsula, Bilbao, Dordogne Valley, Brittany,and Normandy.
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84. Sephardic Surnames
Names of Arabic derivation, eg Abenatar, Abensur, also occur and can berelated to the iberian peninsula from where the Sephardics came.
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Excerpt from Sephardics of Curacao by Frances P. Karner
Published 1969 by Van Gorcum and Company, Assen, Netherlands
Although this description of Sephardic Surnames was written with reference to Curacao, all of these name structures were also used by the Jewish community of Nevis. Many of the Jewish surnames are directly related to geographical locations and were acquired as a consequence of the forced wanderings caused by persecution or denied opportunities. By taking the name of a community or a region, a place of origin could always be traced no matter where in the world the Sephardic would find himself in later years. In addition, it possibly also created a sense of some security, a knowledge that one had a "home base", roots somewhere, even though it was of a psychological rather than an actual nature. Names of Arabic derivation, e.g. Abenatar, Abensur, also occur and can be related to the Iberian peninsula from where the Sephardics came. During the long Moorish occupation of Spain and Portugal, much of their high civilization became embedded in the Sephardic Jewish sphere as well. This fact should not surprise us since name borrowing occurs time and again in instances of prolonged culture contact between different peoples. Yet in other cases, we find that the Curacao Sephardim bear surnames of pure Hispano-Portuguese - and hence Christian - derivation -, e.g., Alvares, Castro, Gomes, Senior.

85. Medieval Atlas - Maps Of Iberia - Medieval Spain And Portugal In Maps
and Portugal. The shifting political boundaries of the kingdoms inthe iberian peninsula are revealed in the maps offered here.
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Maps of Iberia During the Middle Ages the Visigoths, then the Moors, then Catholic Monarchs dominated what is today Spain and Portugal. The shifting political boundaries of the kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula are revealed in the maps offered here. You can find related materials about the history of Medieval Portugal and Spain in the Medieval Iberia Subject Index Map of the Spanish Kingdoms: 1030
From the Atlas To Freeman's Historical Geography, edited by J.B. Bury, a map of the political divisions of the Iberian peninsula in the year 1030, here at the Medieval History site. Map of the Spanish Kingdoms: 1210
From the Atlas To Freeman's Historical Geography, edited by J.B. Bury, a map of the political divisions of the Iberian peninsula in the year 1210, here at the Medieval History site.

86. Temples And Towns In Roman Iberia
Mierse shows that architecture on the peninsula displays great can be seen, but theIberian form has modern and ancient languages and the archaeology of the
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The Social and Architectural Dynamics of Sanctuary Designs, from the Third Century B.C. to the Third Century A.D.
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DESCRIPTION (back to top) This is the first comparative study of Roman architecture on the Iberian peninsula, covering six centuries from the arrival of the Romans in the third century B.C. until the decline of urban life on the peninsula in the third century A.D. During this period, the peninsula became an influential cultural and political region in the Roman world. Iberia supplied writers, politicians, and emperors, a fact acknowledged by Romanists for centuries, though study of the peninsula itself has too often been brushed aside as insignificant and uninteresting. In this book William E. Mierse challenges such a view. By examining in depth the changing forms of temples and their placement within the urban fabric, Mierse shows that architecture on the peninsula displays great variation and unexpected connections. It was never a slavish imitation of an imported model but always a novel experiment. Sometimes the architectural forms are both new and unexpected; in some cases specific prototypes can be seen, but the Iberian form has been significantly altered to suit local needs. What at first may seem a repetition of forms upon closer investigation turns out to be theme and variation. Mierse brings to his quest an impressive learning, including knowledge of several modern and ancient languages and the archaeology of the Roman East, which allows him a unique perspective on the interaction between events and architecture.

87. British Archaeology, No 49, November 1999: Reviews
rudimentary analogues of these features in inscriptions from the Rhineland and theIberian peninsula, where they are Return to the British archaeology homepage.
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Livestock farming in the Bronze Age
by David Field FARMERS IN PREHISTORIC BRITAIN
Francis Pryor
ISBN 07524-1403-8 hb Francis Pryor whisks the reader along with enthusiasm in the first major book on prehistoric farming in Britain since 1983. Anecdotal in style, it has much to do with the author's own experience with livestock and his clear wish to convey this to as many of the general archaeological readership as possible. In this respect it is something of a polemic. The stated aim is to discuss the millennium or so of `livestock farming that flourished during the Bronze Age' and the reader is swiftly and expertly guided through the transition from hunting to farming, through the notion of territory, to the world of symbolism and deliberate deposition. Based on the evidence from a number of excavations on the fen edge, the book uses the Etton causewayed enclosure, Welland Bank Quarry, and Flag Fen in particular, to chronicle farming practices from the Neolithic through to the early Iron Age. Most of the book is devoted to sheep farming. Pryor suggests that, unlike the loess-covered plains of central Europe, the climate and hilly landscape of Britain was more suited to stock control than agriculture. Cereals were certainly grown but it may have been in small quantities, perhaps in gardens, and more as an expression of the Neolithic way of life than for subsistence, but he misses a trick - or perhaps carefully avoids entering the debate on whether they were in fact grown for beer.

88. Ant "Supercolony" In Europe Raises Questions About Getting Along
supercolony, which stretches from northern Italy along the Mediterranean coastlinepast France and Spain and curves around the iberian peninsula past Portugal.
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89. Latin American And Iberian Collections And Resources At UNM
archaeology, anthropology, and history of the Mesoamerican region University of IberianPeninsula Resources University of California, Los Angeles Library
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90. SAAweb - Straus American Antiquity Vol 65 No 2
technocomplex of southern France and the iberian peninsula is an
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91. FSC Leisure Learning : Behind The Costa Brava: Exploring Garrotxa And Emporda, R
from the madding crowds. Its rugged windswept coastline has a floraunique to the iberian peninsula. This is interspersed with low
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92. B.A.R. Titles: ENVIRONMENT, LANDSCAPE AND GARDENS
1. BAR S1091, 2002 New Developments in Italian Landscape archaeology Theory and methodologyof field survey, land evaluation and landscape perception, pottery
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93. Point Of Reference - Journals And Bulletins
Aerial archaeology Newsletter. when last visited, only the first Adumatu Journal. the archaeology of the Arab World AfricanAmerican archaeology Newsletter. hosted by New South
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94. Staff - Department Of Archaeology - University Of Southampton
Diaz Andreu, M. and Keay, S. 1996 The Dynamics of Change The case of the IberianPeninsula, In (Eds.) Diaz Andreu, M Keay, S. The archaeology of Iberia.
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95. British Archaeology, No 45, June 1999: Features
In an article for British archaeology magazine, space researcher Duncan Steel argues that Stonehenge Category Science Social Sciences Archaeoastronomy Stonehenge...... constitutes smokinggun evidence of significant contact, at least in the Iberianpeninsula. Dr Mike Parker Pearson is Reader in archaeology at the University
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Neanderthals, sex and modern humans
A boy buried 24,000 years ago proves the two species did interbreed, writes Paul Pettitt The relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals has been the subject of vigorous debate for many years. Did the two species inter-breed? Did they come into contact at all, during the tens of thousands of years of their co-existence on Earth? (See BA March , and Letters , May.) In 1996, DNA from the original Neander valley Neanderthal remains was extracted and analysed. This work demonstrated that there were at least 500,000 years of evolutionary divergence between our own species and the c 40,000 year old Neanderthal in question, diminishing the likelihood that the two species intermixed. Now, however, direct evidence has come to light from Iberia, demonstrating unequivocally that contact took place and was probably quite extensive on the peninsula. The evidence was the discovery in November last year of an Early Upper Palaeolithic burial, over 24,000 years old, at the Abrigo do Lagar Velho in central western Portugal. The burial was of a young boy who was part Neanderthal, part modern human. His discovery has dramatically changed our perspective on Neanderthal extinction and the spread of our own species across Europe. The Ebro river, which runs NW-SE across the neck of the Iberian peninsula, has recently come to be seen by some researchers as a major environmental boundary in the Upper Pleistocene. The earliest anatomically modern human colonists - dating to

96. Gibraltar Museum Site : Clive Finlayson
of Climatic and Environmental Change Current Distribution Patterns in the IberianPeninsula and Evidence In Bound, M. (ed.). The archaeology of Ships of War.
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Bachelor of Science (Bsc) Special Honours Degree in Zoology (Class 1). The University of Liverpool.
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil). The University of Oxford.
Master of Science (MSc) in Museum Studies. The University of Leicester.
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Multi-scale spatio-temporal distribution patterns of animals, with special reference to birds. Current field research is carried out in Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar.
Distribution patterns at large spatial scales. Currently researching patterns across Afro-European continental and Mediterranean-Atlantic oceanic gradients. Body size and the composition and structure of communities of vertebrates. Changing environments and faunal patterns in southern Europe in the Quaternary. The Neanderthal extinction. Human Ecology. The integration of the human species within ecological research studies as a way of modelling ecological conservation. Historical patterns and processes of the southern Iberian Peninsula and North Africa from the classical period to the medieval with specific reference to the role of the geography.

97. Notes From The Road - Afghanistan - Buddhist Statues Of Bamyan - Archeology - Ah
He has just coauthored a work on the relevance of archaeology to apeople. Excavating Jesus, focusing on biblical archaeology, seeks
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98. Concentration In Latin American Studies
(Please note that a student may choose not to take a subject focused on the Iberianpeninsula.) Anthropology/Politics/archaeology and Material Science/History
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Four subjects from the list below, including no more than two from a single discipline and no more than one focused on the Iberian peninsula. (Please note that a student may choose not to take a subject focused on the Iberian peninsula.)
Anthropology/Politics/Archaeology and Material Science/History

The Ancient Andean World
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Masterpieces of Hispanic Culture Spanish I Spanish II Spanish III HASS-D Language Option Spanish IV HASS-D Language Option Oral Communication in Spanish Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition: Perspectives on Technology and Culture Spanish Conversation and Composition Advanced Reading and Writing in Spanish Spanish for Bilingual Students Introduction to Spanish Culture Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature HASS-D Introduction to Spanish Culture Making the Other Speak: Narratives from the Spanish Conquest of the New World Twentieth-Century Hispanic American Literature Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film The Short Story in Spain and Hispanic America

99. Centre D'Arqueologia Subaquàtica De Catalunya
the disembarkation of the Roman armies, culminating in the Romanization of the IberianPeninsula, and still To Main Page Back to Nordic Underwater archaeology.
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Underwater History
Throughout history the Mediterranean has been the great nexus of union between the nations that made up its shores. For it was the principal means of communication between peoples and cultures, a natural highway which allowed for the exchange of ideas and products. At the same time the rivers, lakes and marshlands served as routes for penetrating into the hinterlands and their banks became the ideal sites for human settlement. This continuous use of the waters has meant the leaving behind of innumerable mementoes of human activity, in the form of sunken ships, port constructions, the inventiveness employed in harnessing its natural resources, or simply lost and abandoned objects. Man has always attempted to recover objects which have fallen to the sea bed, to recover something considered to be of value. In order to achieve this end he has, over the ages, invented and perfected machines, apparatus, and techniques which have made the work both easier and safer. An antique object, however, is much more than something with a merely economic value. Ingots on the Presido site (L'Estartit) Over recent decades technical and methodological advances have allowed access to subaquatic archaeological remains, an their exploitation as a source of historical information. However, at the same time, the extension of human pressure along the coasts, and on the bottom of the sea, has accelerated the process of destruction of this enormously fragile heritage. In order to counteract this problem, in 1992, the Generalitat (Autonomous Government) of Catalonia, created the Subaquatic Archaeological Centre of Catalonia, the CASC (Centre d'Arqueologia Subaquàtica de Catalunya) charging it with the following missions: the inventory, protection, conservation, study and spreading of the archaeological heritage of Catalonia which is found submerged under coastal and inland waters.

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