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Novedosa reconstrucción histórica de los once reyes de Tenochtitlan y, especialmente de los dos Moctezumas y de sus madres y esposas. A partir de la ruina anterior del reino tolteca y del viaje de Topiltzin Quetzalcóatl a Chichén-Itzá, la destacada antropóloga estadunidense desarrolla la tesis de la conciencia cíclica de los aztecas como teoría que explicaba sus grandes cataclismos y el presagio de nuevas eras.

Isidre Ambrós, corresponsal de La Vanguardia en Pekín y Hong Kong durante una década, se sumerge en una sociedad muy reservada ante los extranjeros, como es la china, para narrar el perfil menos conocido del pais que aspira a desbancar a Estados Unidos del liderazgo planetario. A través de sus viajes, cual Marco Polo del siglo XXI, por toda la vasta geografía china, conversa con ciudadanos de toda condición que nos ayudan a comprender la evolución y el día a día de una sociedad de un funcionamiento muy distinto a la nuestra: al mismo tiempo que está controlada férreamente por el...

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.