Les parcours sinueux qu’ont suivis l’anthropologie et l’archéologie en Amérique du Nord depuis une cinquantaine d’années démontrent des intérêts convergents pour la connaissance et l’explication du comportement humain et cela avec des méthodes de recherche de plus en pl...

On a longtemps vu l’histoire et l’anthropologie comme deux disciplines très distinctes n’ayant pas grand-chose en partage. Jusqu’au début du XXe siècle, l’histoire fut essentiellement celle des « civilisés », des Européens et donc des colonisateurs. Si les colonisés n’é...

For excavation in sites often many firms proceed without effective and preventive estimates. The frequent accidents that occur indicate that we have not yet reached, especially in many sites of private clients, to a careful programming that allows reaching acceptable le...

It is important to predict an onset of slope failures or rock falls for the occupational safety because about 15 to 20 workers were killed by these every year in Japan. Approximately half of the victims suffered from slope failure during slope excavation construction. I...

We report the progress of our research on buildings and their surroundings for disaster prevention in Chuo-3, Ota City, which is an area in Tokyo, Japan with densely built-up wooden house areas. In a previous paper, we reported the results of an exhaustive survey of 383...

In recent decades, social development and demographic changes have led to a significant decline of the number of new building constructions and an increase of refurbishments and building activities in projects in the built environment.Those changes force building compan...

On April 16, 2016, Ecuador had suffered a 7.8 earthquake. The experience designing and building of Meche's house, a post-disaster alternative building process, is analyzed in this paper applying Martin Heidegger's concepts of Dwelling, Being in the World and Being There...

Meche's House is an alternative post-disaster construction, and this is the study of its bioclimatic approach showing that social and post-disaster buildings also need this kind of research. Tropical climate conditions lead to buildings having a high energy consumption ...

Definition of Five Storied Pagoda: A five-storied pagoda is a symbolic tomb of Buddha. When Buddhism was introduced into Japan in 538, a five-storied pagoda became one of the important components of temple complexes. Present Situations of Wooden Five-storied Pagoda: The...

It is well-known that there exist a lot of Japanese-style three-story wooden inns in some famous spa resort areas in Japan, and they may be almost cultural properties and also may produce comfortable cultur-al scenery for many visiting tourists. Therefore, local city of...