Directorios

ARQUEOLOGÍA

 

	Parque Arqueológico de Alarcos
		Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha. «Alarcos constituye en la actualidad uno de los conjuntos arqueológicos más espectaculares de la región, no sólo por su extensión de 33 ha. de espacio intramuros sino también por la importancia de sus restos ibéricos y medievales. Los vestigios arqueológicos evidencian la ocupación humana del cerro desde la Edad del Bronce hasta la Plena Edad Media, con un largo periodo intermedio de despoblación en épocas romana y visigoda.» España

	Parque Arqueológico de Carranque
		Toledo. Yacimiento visitable con restos de la villa romana de Materno, basílica, ninfeo y otros monumentos interesantes. España

	Parque Arqueológico de Carranque
		Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, Consejería de Educación y Cultura. «Visitar Carranque es viajar en el tiempo. Recorrer el yacimiento permite conocer una parte del pasado. Prestar atención al Parque Arqueológico conduce a conocer nuestra historia y, en definitiva, a nosotros mismos. La espectacular colección de mosaicos de la Villa de Materno justificaría por sí sola una visita al yacimiento. También bastaría el edificio conocido como la Basílica, con sus excepcionales columnas de mármol de cuatro metros de altura, talladas en canteras imperiales de Turquía y Grecia.» España

	Parque Arqueológico de Segóbriga
		Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha. «Segóbriga es el más claro ejemplo de la progresión social y del desarrollo urbano en la Meseta sur en época romana. Citada en las fuentes antiguas en el marco de las guerras de los siglos II y I a.C. y definida por Plinio como extremo de la Celtiberia, las evidencias de su etapa prerromana son muy débiles y se reducen a algunos objetos descubiertos en contextos arqueológicos posteriores y a unas pocas monedas.» España

	Patrimonio de la Humanidad en Catalunya
		Diario La Vanguardia, Barcelona. «El patrimonio es el legado que recibimos del pasado, que vivimos en el presente y que transmitiremos a las generaciones futuras, y el patrimonio mundial recibe un reconocimiento excepcional por su aplicación universal. Los bienes culturales o naturales designados patrimonio de la humanidad son lugares destacados y admirados como valores universales pero también obligan a los países a conservarlos para evitar su desaparición. En el mundo hay un total de 690 lugares inscritos y España ocupa el primer lugar de la lista con 36 designaciones. Los orígenes de la designación de monumentos culturales como patrimonio de la Humanidad para asegurar su conservación se remontan a los años sesenta. Entonces la Unesco lanzó una campaña internacional en Egipto, cuando se quiso construir la presa de Asuán, para proteger los monumentos de Nubia. Con la presa se inundaba el valle del templo de Abu Simel y de Filae, tesoros de la civilización egipcia. Para salvaguardarlos se trasladaron piedra a piedra para montarlos en lugares secos y protegidos. Los gobiernos de Egipto y Sudan protagonizaron una llamada de atención y en 1959 la Unesco, en cooperación con 50 países y el organismo ICOMOS, elaboró la Convención sobre la Protección del Patrimonio Mundial Cultural.» Incluye apartados sobre las Iglesias románicas del valle de Boí, el conjunto arqueológico de Tarraco, el Monasterio de Poblet, las pinturas rupestres del arco mediterráneo y los arquitectos Domènech i Montaner y Gaudí. España

	Pelee Island/Middle Island: How We Got to the Present Millenium
		Pelee Island Heritage Centre - Windsor Public Library. Virtual Museum Canada. «The searchable website documents the ecological history of Pelee Island with more than 88 thousand words, photographs, videos and interactive Geographic Information Systems maps providing multiple layers of individually taillored information.» Canadá

	Perspectiva hipotètica de Tàrraco, s. II dC
		Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Tarragona. «Des de la seva fundació, l'any 218 aC, Tàrraco esdevingué un assentament bàsic per a la romanització de la Península Ibèrica. L'any 27 aC, en el marc d'una profunda reforma politicoadministrativa d'Hispània duta a terme per August, Tàrraco fou designada capital de la important provincia Hispania citerior, anomenada també Tarraconensis. Aquesta decisió va significar el reconeixement definitiu de la funció que la ciutat hauria d'exercir en els territoris de l'occident romà durant tot el període de l'Alt Imperi. I va impulsar un ampli programa tendent a dotar la colònia d'un alt nivell urbanísitc i monumental, d'acord amb la seva importància i amb la seva significació.» España

	Petra: Lost City of Stone
		American Museum of Natural History. «Deep within the deserts of Jordan lies the ancient city of Petra. Through a narrow gorge it emerges into view, revealing awe-inspiring monuments cut into the surrounding cliffs. What is this astonishing city? Who built it, and why? Two thousand years ago, Petra stood at a crossroads of the ancient Near East. Camel caravans passed through, loaded with spices, textiles and incense from distant regions—and through such commerce, the city flourished. Its people, the Nabataeans, harnessed precious water, enabling the population to soar to perhaps 20,000.» EEUU - inglés Jordania

	Petrie Museum Of Archaeology
		University College London. «The Petrie Museum houses an estimated 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. It illustrates life in the Nile Valley from prehistory through the time of the pharaohs, the Ptolemaic, Roman and Coptic periods to the Islamic period.» Egipto Reino Unido

	Pitt Rivers Museum
		University of Oxford. «The Museum displays archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. It was founded in 1884 when General Pitt Rivers, an influential figure in the development of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology, gave his collection to the University. The General's founding gift contained more than 18,000 objects but there are now over half a million. Many were donated by early anthropologists and explorers. The collection includes extensive photographic and sound archives which contain early records of great importance. The Museum continues to collect through donations, bequests, special purchases and through its staff and students, in the course of their fieldwork.» Reino Unido

	Pompeii: Nature, Science and Technology in a Roman Town
		Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. «Pompeii, as everyone knows, presents a case that is of utmost importance for the study of antiquity, in that it shows us the conditions and contexts of ancient life which were suddenly interrupted in the night between the 24th and 25th of August, 79 AD, when the eruption of Vesuvius buried, under five meters of lapilli and ash, this small city on the Campanian coast. The unexpected end and complete burial of the city with all its furnishings, its inhabitants, and its activities conserved a patrimony of knowledge which we have been exploring for two and a half centuries.» Italia

	Provenience Unknown
		Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. «Originally created as a documentary panel exhibition about the illicit traffic of cultural property, adapted from the work of Daniel Graepler and Marina Mazzei, produced collaboratively by the Art History Department and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.» EEUU - inglés

	Punkurí
		Universidad Nacional del Santa «Punkuri, es esencialmente arquitectura, un gran edificio de barro sobre la terraza donde se ubica, pues el lugar fue elegido considerando los materiales existentes para la construcción , los vientos , la altura , el dominio visual y su relación con el cerro San Cristóbal al frente y a poca distancia .El emplazamiento fue meditado y planificada la construcción.» Perú

	Queen of Sheba
		American Foundation for the Study of Man. «Only a handful of outsiders had ever been to Marib and no excavation had ever been conducted when in 1951 Imam Ahmed, King of Yemen, granted the American Foundation for the Study of Man (AFSM) permission to excavate at the Mahram Bilqis ("sanctuary of Bilqis"); Arab folklore's legendary name for the sanctuary dedicated to the ancient Sabaean Moon God and associated with the fabled Queen of Sheba mentioned in the Koran, the Bible and the Ethiopic Holy Book.» EEUU - inglés Yemen

	Rise of the Black Dragon: Cultural Treasures from China
		The Provincial Museum of Alberta. «A dense web of towns and villages spreads across northeastern China's vast, agriculturally productive Manchurian Plain. From time to time, the daily activities of local villagers disturb the rich historical fabric of this landscape, revealing something of China's ancient history. This was the case for villagers working in Acheng County, near Harbin, Heilongjiang. Excavating in the west wall of the Jin Dynasty (A.D. 1115-1234) capital, known as Shangjing, they stumbled upon an exquisite, sitting bronze dragon. The reasons for burying the little dragon in Shangjing's walls centuries ago remain a mystery, but we do know that Jin Emperor Shizong ceased using a sitting bronze dragon on his imperial carriage in A.D. 1166.» Canadá

	Saint-Victor Petroglyphes (The)
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «The petroglyphs (or rock carvings) near St. Victor are one of Saskatchewan's prehistoric mysteries. No one knows exactly who carved them, why they were carved, or even when they were carved. All we can be certain of is that they provide us with clues to the lifestyle of a society that lived on Saskatchewan's plains hundreds of years ago, at a time pre-dating any of our written records.» Canadá

	Semitic Museum
		Harvard University. «The Semitic Museum was founded in 1889, and moved into its present location in 1903. It originally was the home of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, a departmental library, a repository for research collections, a public educational institute, and a center for archaeological exploration. Among the Museum's early achievements were the first scientific excavations in the Holy Land (at Samaria in 1907-1912) and excavations at Nuzi and Tell el-Khaleifeh in the Sinai, where the earliest alphabet was found. During World War II, the Museum housed Naval offices and was closed to the public.» EEUU - inglés

	Shefton Museum of Greek Art and Archeology
		University of Newcastle. «The collection includes Roman, Near Eastern and Celtic items, but objects of Greek and Etruscan manufacture represent its main focus. The core of the collection is an extensive range of pottery, ranging in date from Mycenaean to Hellenistic. In particular, it holds some fine examples of Attic red-figure and over 100 pieces of Attic black-glaze pottery, as well as Attic white-ground lekythoi, used as oil flasks and often found as offerings at tombs. In addition to the Attic pottery, the museum has a collection of Corinthian pots, characterised by orientalising decoration using motifs adopted from the Near East. There are also examples of Mycenaean and Geometric pottery, red-figure of South Italian and Etruscan manufacture, and Etruscan bucchero pottery.» Reino Unido

	Solomon's House in Oxford: New Finds from the First Museum
		Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. «The Old Ashmolean Building in Broad Street, Oxford, is now occupied by the Museum of the History of Science but recent building and refurbishment work has brought to light evidence of its original purpose, as the home of the Ashmolean Museum in the seventeenth century and the University's first official site for experimental science.» Reino Unido

	Teotihuacan. The City of the Gods
		Arizona State University. Archaeological Research Institute. «We have created this site to offer the general public and experts around the world access to information about this ancient city. It consists of introductory pages, recent excavation reports and academic journals.» EEUU - inglés México

	The Antiquities Museum
		The University of Queensland, Brisbane. Faculty of Arts. «Over a period of thirty years the collection grew steadily in size and in reputation under the guidance during that time of Classics and Ancient History staff members Gordon Cooper, Don Barrett, Max Kanowski and Bruce Gollan, and today the Antiquities Museum has on display a broad range of ancient artefacts stemming from Western Asia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.» Austria

	The First Europeans: Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca
		Co-organized by the American Museum of Natural History and Junta de Castilla y León, Spain. «Castilla y León, the largest autonomous region in Spain, contains more than 50 percent of the country's historical and artistic patrimony, as well as the largest number of UNESCO world heritage sites. The history of this 100,000-square-kilometer region, the largest in western Europe, stretches back one million years. It was in Atapuerca where evidence of western Europe's first inhabitants was unearthed.» «The gently rolling hills known as the Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain hide a complex system of large limestone caverns. Openings into the caves dot the hillsides, and for nearly one million years, these cave entrances have provided shelter for humans as well as animals. Over the millennia, the inhabitants of Atapuerca left behind an extraordinary fossil record that scientists are just beginning to unearth.» EEUU - inglés España

	The Manchester Museum
		University of Manchester. «The Manchester Museum provides access to about six million items from every continent of the globe. Butterflies and carvings from India; birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific; live frogs and ancient pottery from America; fossils and native art from Australia; mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa; plants, coins and minerals from Europe; art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean; and beetles, armour and archery from Asia.» Reino Unido

	The Provincial Museum of Alberta
		«The Provincial Museum of Alberta is committed to building and preserving collections documenting the diversity of Alberta's natural history. We have eight different natural history collections. To date our collections number about 500,000 specimens. Collections are accessible to researchers and the interested public and specimens will be loaned to qualified institutions.» «The Provincial Museum of Alberta is committed to preserve and build collections documenting 12,000 years of human occupation of the Province. The history programs are divided into two sections - Aboriginal and early contact history (Archaeology and Ethnology) and post-contact history (Folklife, Government History, and Western Canadian History)» Canadá

	The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology
		University of Reading, Department of Classics. «..., is recognised as the fourth largest collection of Greek ceramics in Britain. The collection primarily consists of material from the Greek and Græco-Roman civilisations of the Mediterranean, most notably Greek and Etruscan ceramics and terracottas. Other artifacts include prehistoric pottery, as well as metal and stone artifacts of Greek and Roman date. There is also an important collection of Egyptian antiquities, ranging from the Pre-dynastic to the Roman period.» Reino Unido

	Tàrraco, una arqueología viva
		Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Tarragona. «Tarragona y la arqueología son dos realidades que, desde siempre, han estado íntimamente asociadas. El esfuerzo y la sensibilidad de las generaciones que nos han precedido, especialmente desde mediados del siglo XIX, han hecho posible una apreciable progresión en el conocimiento de la historia y de la configuración de la ciudad y del su territorio de influencia.» España

	Tárraco en la fotografía del siglo XX: 1939-1979
		Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Tarragona. «Tàrraco en la fotografia del segle XX: 1939-1979 quiere constituirse, objectivamente, y siempre con el patrimonio arqueológico de Tarragona como escenario, en el testimonio gráfico de una época y de unas circunstancias; pero quiere ser, también, un público reconocimiento para todos aquellos que -en algunos casos, en el marco del ejercicio de su profesión y de sus responsabilidades directas o, más frecuentemente, en el del más puro voluntarismo, desde su inquietud por la historia- fueron capaces de conformar, en aquella época y bajo aquellas circunstancias, una auténtica crónica y de perpetuar el recuerdo. Dejando escrita, por tanto, la historia de su tiempo.» España

	University of Alberta Museums
		«The University of Alberta Museums hold a world of wonder and discovery for the inquisitive mind. They provide learning opportunities that are exceptional, innovative and inspiring, and enable new generations and diverse communities to explore and benefit from a vast array of world-class research and scholarship. Thirty-five diverse museums and collections located throughout the campus combined with the Department of Museums and Collections Services, a community of curators, staff and students, and the Friends of the University of Alberta Museums together form the University of Alberta Museums.» Canadá

	Vikings Discovery and Landing at L'Anse aux Meadows
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «The early accounts of Viking discoveries, including their discovery of North America, come to us from the sagas; ancient Norse stories that were told by word of mouth for many years, and later written down for future generations to read. (The earliest written version of the sagas dates back to the twelfth century.) The beginning of the Vikings' movement westward toward North America can be traced by reading in the Sagas of the sea voyages of Erik the Red and Bjarni Herjolfsson.» Canadá

	Vilars 2000
		Universitat de Lleida. «La fortalesa dels Vilars d'Arbeca (Lleida, Espanya), 750 B.C.-325 B.C., constitueix un conjunt arqueològic excepcional, especialment per les seves defenses, muralla torrejada, "chevaux-de-frise" i fossat, únic en el panorama peninsular i europeu de la Primera Edat del Ferro i la Cultura Ibèrica. La Universitat de Lleida desenvolupa un projecte, "Vilars 2000", que te per objectiu la investigació integral, la restauració del monument i la musealització i presentació al públic.» España

	Vivre au bord du Danube il y a 6500 ans
		Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Grands sites archéologiques. «Grâce à une documentation iconographique commentée, des illustrations et schémas originaux, des anecdotes, la vie des villageois du tell Hârsova à l’époque chalcolithique est évoquée de façon concrète à la lumière des découvertes archéologiques du chantier école, fruit d’une coopération franco-roumaine.» Francia Rumanía

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