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Empeñado desde hace treinta años en recopilar y sacar a la luz los documentos más relevantes de nuestro pasado, resultaba inevitable enfrentarme antes o después a los Libros de Visitas de la Orden de Santiago. Se trata de una de las colecciones más importantes del Archivo Histórico Nacional, formada por una serie de enormes y desgastados volúmenes manuscritos procedentes en buena medida de los siglos XV y XVI, que habían logrado sobrevivir a la acción destructiva de las diferentes guerras y al abandono y deterioro del tiempo y las desamortizaciones. Custodiados desde sus orígenes en ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

A beautiful slipcase holds three volumes on the history of Bogota, making this resource an indispensable and fascinating documentary of Colombia's capital. The first two volumes that cover the conquest, colonialism, and the 19th century have been updated with fresh designs, while a completely new third volume covers the 20th century and includes the history of Bogota's expansion, the development of services and institutions, and the achievements and failures of more recent times. This lovely collection constitutes a legacy of obligatory reading for both its current and future inhabitants....

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.