El Palacio: Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

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Juan Uría Ríu nace en Oviedo el 7 de octubre de 1891. Estudia Derecho en la Universidad ovetense. Posteriormente se traslada a Madrid, donde se licencia en Historia. A fines de 1918, participa en la fundación del Centro de Estudios Asturianos, siendo uno de los principales animadores desde su Boletín, en el que da a conocer sus primeros trabajos de investigación, centrados por entonces en la etnografía y la antropología física. En 1927 presenta su tesis doctoral sobre "Las peregrinaciones a San Salvador de Oviedo". En los años siguientes, profundiza en la investigación tanto...