Alabaster is one of nature’s few industrial minerals that is described as ornamental, scarce and rarely concentrated in mineable accumulations.
Alabaster is one of nature’s few industrial minerals that is described as ornamental, scarce and rarely concentrated in mineable accumulations.
The biography of the famous jurist Don Juan de Solórzano Pereira is well known, but not so much his relationship with artistic issues. We examine the goods that he possessed, among which there were numerous objects from the Indies, and we present new aspects of his patronage of the main chapel of the Madrid monastery of Caballero de Gracia.
The old Isla Plana, off the coast of Alicante and Santa Pola, has long been an insular enclave valued both for its geographical position and for the wealth of fish in its surrounding waters. However, it remained uninhabited until the last third of the 18th century, when an ambitious project for a military stronghold and civil colonization of the island was promoted, in accordance with the reformist philosophy of the Spanish Enlightenment in the time of King Carlos III. , halfway between utopia and reality. That project would be known as Nueva Tabarca, in memory of the origin of its first settlers. Two characters were key in its configuration and development: the former captain general of Valencia and later president of the Council of Castilla, the Count of Aranda, and the military engineer, Infantry Colonel Fernando Méndez de Rao Sotomayor.
The musealization of battlefields is a work area that has a long tradition in other countries such as the United States, France, England or Germany, because these archaeological sites are part of their cultural heritage, and for this reason they are preserved and conditioned. for your visit.
The purpose of this work is to make known a scientific instrument that, due to its importance, was acquired by the State to form part of the Modern Age collections of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum (MAN) displays an important collection of scientific instruments from different periods, some of which are of extraordinary value, such as the Roman clock of Belo, the Andalusian planispheric astrolabe of Ibrahim ibn Said al-Sahli, the great astrolabe of Gualterus Arsenius (said of Philip II) and the Rabdologic abacus. There are other objects of interest in the collection where art and mathematics merge. The objects in the collection of Professor Manuel Rico y Sinobas (1819 – 1898), physicist and doctor, are not of the same quality as those mentioned above, but are of interest. The theodolite/astronomical clock by Gualterus Arsenius, which would be an excellent piece if it were complete, is unique of its kind. The collection of 18th-century pantographs is very remarkable. Among the carpenter’s and navigator’s slide rules there is an extraordinarily rare square-headed ruler.
The Amazonian universe encompasses innumerable themes (gender, mythology, archaeology, social relations, the vision of the “Other”, war, autochthony, etc.). In short, an exclusively female society, or one where women control all areas, is considered a matriarchy (regardless of concepts such as matrilineality, matrilocality or both). It has filled pages, not only in antiquity, and has remained in the human mind for millennia. The emergence of matriarchal theories in the 19th century served to revive a dormant but never forgotten discussion of gender that greatly influenced early contemporary analyses of one of the best-known Greek myths. Many of the postulates that emerged then, such as matriarchy or the existence of a primordial Great Mother Goddess, now superseded, are still defended by various authors to support the supposed real existence of a society with these characteristics that deserve critical analysis.
The scientific expedition of the armoured frigate Arapiles led by Juan de Dios de la Rada across the Mediterranean in 1871 brought to the National Archaeological Museum a collection of 319 objects from Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. Of these, just over 77 came from Cyprus and all were donated by the Italian Consul in Larnaca, Riccardo Colucci. Here we analyse his role as a collector and his relationship with the donation to the Museum, highlighting the importance of his figure in the genesis of the Museum’s collection of archaeological objects.
We present an ethnoarchaeological study of an alzada, a seasonal habitat in the high mountains of Lugo, linked to summer pastoral activity and, to a lesser extent, to agricultural activity, in order to establish, in accordance with the data obtained through anthropological and geographical fieldwork, an explanatory model of the process of almost total abandonment of the site and the acquisition of new functions and meanings that it has recently taken on. In this way it is possible to understand, in the light of the ethnographic, historical and anthropological context, the archaeological remains of this place of occupation.
These coins were campaign coinage, possibly issued as a result of the first entry of Alfonso the Battler into Toledo as King of Castile.