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This is the revision of the different periods of Pollentia's forum since the beginning of the first quarter of the 1st. century BC until the Islamic period. We point out the documented reforms in the early Empire and also in the 3rd. century AD with special attention to the fortified precinct built in the late period over what had been the forum of the city. Revisión de las diversos períodos de ocupación del foro de Pollentia, desde sus inicios en el primer cuarto del siglo I a.C. hasta la época islámica, destacando las reformas documentadas para época alto imperial y las del siglo III d.C, con especial atención al recinto fortificado que se construyó en época tardía en el antiguo foro de la ciudad.

Diversos documentos conservados en la Real Academia de la Historia y en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando han permitido reconstruir las circunstancias del hallazgo del conocido tesoro de Quintana Redonda, formado por más de mil denarios de bolśkan, un casco de bronce y dos recipientes de plata. Presentamos los dibujos de estos dos recipientes, un skyphos y un mastos realizados en el momento del descubrimiento y hasta ahora inéditos. La revisión del conjunto permite afirmar que pudo tratarse del tesoro de un militar romano y que su ocultación debe ser anterior a las guerras sertorianas. Several documents preserved in the Real Academia de la Historia and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando have allowed us to reconstruct the circumstances of the finding of the well-known hoard of Quintana Redonda, which consists of more than a thousand denarii of bolśkan, a bronze helmet and two silver containers. We present the drawings of these two containers, a skyphos and a mastos, made at the time of the discovery, and unknown until now. By examining the set we can state that this could be a Roman soldier’s treasure, and its hiding took place before the Sertorian wars.

[ES] Durante las pasadas cinco décadas, Italia ha hecho inversiones en la construcción de obras públicas como estrategia central para dinamizar sus regiones menos favorecidas; sin embargo, debido a múltiples e inherentes disfuncionalidades, muchas de esas regiones siguen hoy a medio construir o abandonadas. El grupo de artistas Video Alterazioni se refiere a este fenómeno como lo “Incompiuto” (“lo incompleto”, en español), acuñando así un nombre para designar un nuevo estilo arquitectónico donde la materialidad inconclusa característica reconviene la idiosincrasia italiana. En busca de la dignidad existencial, los de Video Alterazioni sugieren que esos sitios reúnen y reensamblan lugares metafísicos de contemplación, pensamiento y de lo imaginario. Desplazándose hacia una de las muestras más espectaculares (la Represa de Blufi, Sicilia), la presente colaboración entre un arquitecto y un escritor da fe de aquella afirmación, y celebra las cualidades fenomenológicas de la ruina moderna que se argumentan en las emergentes literaturas geográficas. [EN] Over the last five decades, Italy has invested in the construction of public works as the core strategy to dynamize its less favoured regions; however, due to multiple and inherent dysfunctionalities, many of these remain half-built and abandoned today. The group of artists Alterazioni Video refer to this phenomenon as “Incompiuto” (“Incompletion” in English), coining a name for a new architectural style where the characteristic unfinished materiality speaks back to Italian idiosyncrasy. In the pursuit of existential dignity, Alterazioni Video suggest that these sites muster and reassemble metaphysical places of contemplation, thought and the imaginary. Drifting at one of its most spectacular samples (The Dam of Blufi, Sicily), the present collaboration between an architect and a writer testifies to said assertion, and celebrates the phenomenological qualities of modern ruination argued in emerging geographical literatures. The fieldwork conducted for this research took place while Pablo Arboleda was a doctoral candidate funded by the scholarship “Thüringer Graduiertenförderung,” granted by Bauhaus-University Weimar (Germany). The materialization of the present contribution has unfolded while Pablo Arboleda was a post-doc at the University of Glasgow, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation. [ZH] 过去五十年中 做为振兴欠发达地区的核心战略意大利对公共工程建设进行了投入。然而由于诸多固有的机制阻碍许多工程至今仍处于烂尾和废弃状态。Alterazioni Video的艺术家们为这种新的建筑风格创造了一个名词 “不完整”。这些建筑独特的未完成物质性也反映了意大利的特色。在追求生存尊严的过程中, Alterazioni Video认为这些建筑集中和重组了各种冥想、思想和假想的形而上学场所。针对最壮观的一个实例 西西里Blufi大坝 一位建筑师和一位作家之间的合作证明了上述观点并赞赏了近来地理文献中出现的现代毁灭的卓越本质。 Peer reviewed

[EN]This paper addresses the formation processes at an unparalleled Bronze Age settlement in the Iberian Meseta. The site of El Cerro (Burgos, Spain) presents a series of challenging features: the simultaneous inhumation of three subadults alongside a dwelling quarter and adjacent pits, some of them filled with apparent formality, including such anachronistic elements as Neolithic and Beaker items and several placed deposits, such as a leg of a cow. A critical evaluation of the contextual dataset, a re-fitting operation, and an assessment of the abrasion and size of a ceramic sample were carried out. The archaeological peculiarities of the site are explained as a contextually specific cultural response to a grievous and traumatic episode: the death of three young siblings, which entailed the abandonment of the settlement through prescribed practices. Some depositions are a product of recognizable intentionality, while others are regarded as unintended cumulative outcomes.

The article is about the attempts for regenerating Spanish astronomy and meteorology in the last quarter of the twentieth century through the human and scientific trajectory of Augusto Arcimís (1844-1910), amateur astronomer and the first Spanish professional meteorologist. The role of personalities linked to the Institución Libre de Enseñanza in the creation of the Instituto Central Meteorológico in 1887 and the spread of modern astronomical theories is analyzed. El artículo trata sobre los intentos por regenerar la astronomía y la meteorología españolas durante el último cuarto del siglo XIX a través de la trayectoria científica y humana del astrónomo amateur y primer meteorólogo profesional español Augusto Arcimís (1844-1910). Se estudia el papel de personalidades vinculadas a la Institución Libre de Enseñanza en la creación del Instituto Central Meteorológico en 1887 y en la difusión de teorías astronómicas modernas.