Un equipo de investigadores de la Universidad Técnica de Estambul ha empleado un innovador modelo computacional para desentrañar las dinámicas que permitieron a la legendaria ciudad neolítica de Çatalhöyük, en la actual Turquía, mantenerse durante más de mil años antes de experimentar una transformación radical. Los resultados, publicados en la revista Journal of Archaeological Method […]
Una stretta monetaria energica può riportare stabilmente l’inflazione all’obiettivo solo se il bilancio pubblico è in grado di assorbirne il costo. Altrimenti la disinflazione perde credibilità e i rendimenti a lungo termine segnalano il rischio di una sbandata.
El ministro de Cultura y Turismo de Turquía, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, ha dado a conocer el descubrimiento de una pieza arqueológica de singular valor durante los trabajos de excavación que se llevan a cabo en el yacimiento de Karahantepe, correspondientes a la campaña de 2026. Se trata de una escultura compuesta, con una altura de […]
In the interior of the Yucatán Peninsula, where jungle vegetation intertwines with the characteristic limestone of the region, a team of archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History has brought to light a settlement that completes the complex mosaic of the Maya civilization. This is K’oxol Ja’ II, an archaeological site made up […]
En el interior de la península de Yucatán, donde la vegetación selvática se entrelaza con la roca caliza característica de la región, un equipo de arqueólogos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia ha sacado a la luz un asentamiento que viene a completar el complejo mosaico de la civilización maya. Se trata de K’oxol […]
Un equipo de investigadores franceses y turcos ha publicado un exhaustivo análisis de doce puntas de flecha de obsidiana con incisiones intencionales halladas en el yacimiento neolítico de Tepecik-Çiftlik, en la región de Capadocia (Turquía). Estos objetos, que datan de entre el 7100 y el 6100 a.C., representan un fenómeno arqueológico excepcional: son extremadamente raros […]
Las más de 50.000 piezas de cerámica halladas en el yacimiento de Hüde I, en el lago Dümmer (Baja Sajonia, Alemania), están proporcionando una visión sin precedentes sobre cómo se produjo la transición del estilo de vida cazador-recolector a la agricultura en el norte de Europa. Los investigadores han identificado cerámica procedente de al menos […]
Un equipo de arqueólogos, liderado por la Universidad de Bohemia Occidental (UWB), ha sacado a la luz en las proximidades de la localidad de Chleby, en la actual República Checa, una estructura monumental que data de hace más de 6.500 años y que se configura como uno de los centros rituales más antiguos de Europa […]
Hace aproximadamente quince mil años, las comunidades de cazadores-recolectores que poblaban el sur del Levante experimentaron una transformación radical en su organización social y espacial. Aquellos grupos que hasta entonces habían mantenido un régimen nómada, desplazándose tras las manadas y las estaciones, redujeron drásticamente su movilidad y establecieron los primeros asentamientos permanentes de los que […]
Texto del discurso de Pablo J. Davoli, dictado en el cierre de la jornada de marras, organizada por la Dirección General de Relaciones Internacionales del H. Senado de la Nación…
Forced disappearances have plagued Mexico for decades. In 2019, something remarkable happened: Twenty-one disappeared people were found, alive. They had been toiling in narco-slavery camps, an under-covered aspect of Mexico’s illicit drug trade. But there wasn’t a happy ending. (This story was originally published in Spanish by Quinto Elemento Lab):
Freedom had not been kind to the captives. Few had been able to regain even the wretched standard of living that had pushed them into the arms of the cartels in the first place. Many were scarred by paranoia, trapped in addiction or suffering mental illnesses. Some had been abandoned by their partners or families. More than one, we learned, died after being rescued, some by their own hand. We came to feel that these men had been triply betrayed: first by the narcos who had lured them into the mountains, then by the government that failed to look for them, and finally by a society that refused to welcome them back into its fold.
We are telling their stories not because we hope to secure justice, but simply to establish the truth. This was a modest ambition shared by one of our interlocutors, Andrés. He told us that many of the survivors’ accounts had been doubted. He’d even read criticisms on social media: That’s what they deserve for being shiftless and lazy. “Those people should try thinking before they speak, because they don’t know when they might suddenly find themselves in a similar situation,” Andrés said. “They might be lucky enough to be rescued, or unlucky enough to die out there. I decided to give this interview because this situation’s not going to change. In Mexico, there’s sexual slavery, human trafficking, forced labour. This didn’t start yesterday; it’s been going on for many years.”
Por David Ramos “Se cerró el templo, el sagrario quedó desierto, quedó vacío, ya no está Dios ahí, se fue a ser huésped de quien gustaba darle posada ya temiendo…
Monarch butterfly populations are on the upswing. But, faced with climate change, pine bark beetles, and even avocado-farming cartels, can it last? For The Atlantic, Vann R. Newkirk II follows Cinderella, Eric, and Carle, three butterflies named by his young daughter, as they leave their wintering ground in Mexico to migrate north to lay eggs in order to complete their “biological mission.”
Cinderella, Eric, and Carle had all been tagged in Sierra Chincua, which meant that I could deduce certain facts about their lives. They were already bona fide world-class wanderers, having flown there all the way from Canada in the fall, a three-month trip. Along the way, they’d dodged birds and windmills and cars, eventually reaching the same patch of forest—perhaps even the same trees—that their great-grandparents had roosted in. For much of the winter, they had not eaten and had barely moved, jamming themselves so tightly against their fellow travelers that from a distance they looked like scales armoring the sides of the trees. Now they’d awakened, stretching their wings and warming up.
Travis Diehl’s feature on “Star Axis,” the half-century project of artist Charles Ross, is transportive, an ideal combination of explanatory and sensory writing. Not all of us will make it to the sparse section of Anton Chico, New Mexico, to ascend the steps of Ross’s pyramid and see the stars reel. For those of us who don’t, Diehl’s piece makes for an elegant consolation prize.
Ross broke ground during the U.S. Bicentennial year. Fifty years and more than $10 million later, he says “Star Axis” will be done by winter. In the final design, the staircase rises 11 stories through a tunnel blasted in the rock of Chupinas Mesa, 6,000 feet above sea level and into a viewing chamber in a concrete, stone and steel pyramid 52 feet tall. A circular window there frames Polaris. As viewers climb each of the 147 stairs, the rim of the window appears to broaden, giving an idea of how far Polaris has and will move in a given amount of time, during the 26,000-year cycle known as precession, the gravitational wobble of the Earth’s rotational axis.
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