Since the 1950s, hundreds of enclosed rural settlements have been found in Japan, although this is the first attempt at a morphological analysis of the plans of these structures. This volume examines site morphology, the geographical division of sites and their position within the landscape before focusing on four case studies. These examples are studied in terms of the nature of the site and its architectural features, and also for traces of craft activities and the economy in general, for the acquisition and provision for the storage of foodstuffs, and for evidence of social change....

Proceedings of a conference on the early archaeology of Cadiz, Spain, held in April 2008. Contents: 1) Los jovenes investigadores en la Universidad. Una truculenta carrera en pos del reconocimiento cientifico y la estabilidad laboral (Ana Ma Niveau de Villedary y Marinas); 2) La Arqueologia de las sociedades prehistoricas como compromiso social, docente e investigador. Proyectos de estudio de la region historica del Estrecho Gibraltar (Jose Ramos Munoz); 3) Balance de dos recientes experiencias investigadoras en arqueologia: de Baelo Claudia al Museo de Cadiz (Alicia Arevalo Gonzalez); 4)...

This volume is a valuable study of very early sites, in particular from the Lower and Middle Pleistocene. A number of parasite finds are detailed from a range of contexts including coprolites and sediment samples. The results highlight the history of different parasite groups and sites and give information on the feeding and behaviour of the hosts. A new methodology is proposed, in which the coprolite material is considered as any other archaeological material. A very useful procedure is outlined in order to enable archaeologists and researchers on coprolites to assemble all the information...