A new site with Neandertal lineage fossil remains: the Sima I of the Polvorín cave (Karrantza, Biscay, Northern Iberian Peninsula) by Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Martin Arriolabengoa, Julia Aramendi, Mikel Arlegi, Antoine Balzeau, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Julia Galán, Lucía López-Polín, Virginia Martínez-Pillado, Javier Moreno, Adrián Pablos, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Manuel Rodríguez-Almagro, Nohemi Sala, Mónica Villalba de Alvarado

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HERPETOFAUNAL REMAINS (ANURA, CROCODYLIA, TESTUDINES, SQUAMATA) FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF THE CREVILLENTE AREA (SE SPAIN): PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHICAL AND PALAEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS by Rafael Marquina Blasco, DAVID MORALES-FLORES, ÁNGEL D. BARTOLOMÉ-BOMBÍN, PLINIO MONTOYA

Subjects: “…Palaeoherpetology; Vallesian; Turolian; Iberian Peninsula; Palaeoecology; Palaeoclimatology.…”
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Cattle on the rocks: Understanding cattle mobility, diet, and seasonality in the Iberian Peninsula. The Middle Neolithic site of Cova de les Pixarelles (Tavertet, Osona). by Roger Alcàntara Fors, Richard Madgwick, Laura C Viñas-Caron, Alexandra J Nederbragt, Maria Saña Seguí

“…BCE) one of the few sites in the Iberian Peninsula from this period with a substantial collection of faunal remains. …”
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Spanish refugees in Portugal and the Portuguese solidarity (1936-1945) by Fábio A. Faria

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Increased population exposure to extreme droughts in Iberia due to 0.5 °C additional anthropogenic warming by Ana Russo, Virgílio A Bento, Andreia F S Ribeiro, Daniela C A Lima, João A M Careto, Pedro M M Soares, Renata Libonati, Ricardo M Trigo, Célia M Gouveia

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Ditched and walled enclosures in Prehistoric Iberia (4th-3rd millennia cal. BCE): Like oil and water by Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez, Marcos García-García, Adara López-López, David W. Wheatley

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A narrow endemic plant: evaluating population dynamics and conservation strategies by Nerea Alvite, Elisa Gago Moldes, Sergio Roiloa, Rodolfo Barreiro

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D’une rive à l’autre de la Méditerranée : mobilités, recompositions et adaptations des groupes juifs aux XIVe et XVe siècles by Jennifer Vanz

“…The anti-Jewish massacres that took place in the Iberian Peninsula during the summer of 1391 led many Jews to take the road into exile in North Africa. …”
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Aportaciones al estudio de la gestualidad en la iconografía románica hispana by Alicia Miguélez Cavero

“…The aim of this paper is to set a series of general aspects related to the graphic representations of gestures in the Romanesque iconography of the Iberian Peninsula. This approach is based on the prior configuration of a gestural corpus, formed by attitudes, gestures and postures portrayed in the Romanesque Art of the Spanish kingdoms. …”
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The Purebred Spanish Horse by María L. Mandina, Jorge R. Rey

“…The Purebred Spanish Horse, also known as the Andalusian or the Pura Raza Español, is an elegant breed with ancestors dating back thousands of years to the Andalusian region of the Iberian Peninsula. The horse evolved to have catlike agility, power, and beauty because it faced rugged terrain and needed to co-exist with local wildlife, including wild bulls. …”
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Fueros municipales. Traza de Derecho by Remédios Morán Martín

“…The aim of this paper is to present the outlines of the evolution of the Local Law since the early medieval period (7-12th centuries) until the reception of the Common Law in the Iberian Peninsula (13-18th centuries), with special reference to regulation of trades related to the administration of justice in the Castilian-leonese local texts, and especially the evolution of the figure of mayors: from alcaldes de fuero to alcaldes del rey, whose nearest figure in Portugal are Juízes de fora…”
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The Purebred Spanish Horse by María L. Mandina, Jorge R. Rey

“…The Purebred Spanish Horse, also known as the Andalusian or the Pura Raza Español, is an elegant breed with ancestors dating back thousands of years to the Andalusian region of the Iberian Peninsula. The horse evolved to have catlike agility, power, and beauty because it faced rugged terrain and needed to co-exist with local wildlife, including wild bulls. …”
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The Language Shift Origins of Judeo-Spanish by Mahir Şaul

“… This article proposes that the Judeo-Spanish language of the Sephardic Jews of the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean involved at its origin a language shift that occurred after emigration from the Iberian Peninsula, in non-Hispanic environment; that a form of Castilian was adopted as a deliberate act and rapidly in the early period of exile, to change a prior situation of Romance language pluralism within and among the transplanted Jewish communities. …”
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Roma, León y Lisboa: variaciones memorísticas del culto medieval a San Adrián y Santa Natalia by José Alberto Moráis Morán

“…Following the martyrdom of Saint Adrian in the East and the transference of his mortal remains by his wife to Byzantium, it was between the 7th and the 13rd centuries that their worship was developed in the Iberian Peninsula therefore creating significant worship strategies. …”
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The Requiem in the Age of Confessionalisation. A Review of The Book of Requiems vol. 2 by Simone Caputo

“…Burn and Antonio Chemotti, collects analytical musicological essays on Requiems composed between 1550 and  1650, drawing a comprehensive map of early modern polyphony for the liturgy of the dead, covering regions from Flanders to central Europe and from Italy to the Iberian Peninsula. This map facilitates the rediscovery of a significant portion of Catholic sacred music from the era of confessionalisation, including both celebrated masterpieces and lesserknown yet historically significant works of great beauty. …”
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Le manuscrit arabe et ses papiers by Geneviève Humbert

“…Inversely, Arabic manuscripts are themselves important for the history of paper since they have been copied on numerous varieties of paper which came from the most diverse places Chinese and Sogdian paper, paper of Italian watermarked type, paper made in Samarkand (and the area of Khurasan in general) as well as from Baghdad, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, the Iberian peninsula, Anatolia, Persia, Central Asia, India, Indonesia, etc. …”
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Italo Calvino in Spagna: presenze e assenze di uno scrittore altro by Chiara Giordano

“…The aim of the proposed mapping is to foreground the different faces of a Calvino other than oneself, dwelling on the least analysed moments and on the reasons, including ideological and literary ones, that underlie the articulation of Calvino's authorial profile in the Iberian Peninsula. Specifically, we will examine the translations into Castilian distributed in Spain in the decades following the so-called Ley Fraga and the progressive opening of the Spanish publishing market following the death of General Francisco Franco and the end of the dictatorship. …”
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El origen del códice maya Tro-cortesiano. Un pleito, una condesa y un virrey by Andrés Gutiérrez Usillos

“…Several theories have tried to explain the precise place and time in which this codex was elaborated, or the date and circumstances in which it arrived to the Iberian Peninsula. In this article we will review the data that were known in the 19th century about the origin of the codex, to discover what could have been its true origin, its relationship with the Counts of Cancelada and, from there, to complete the knowledge of this exceptional pre-Hispanic document.…”
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La politique de revitalisation de la langue basque dans la communauté autonome basque by Eguzki Urteaga

“…This article focuses on the policy of revitalization of the Basque language developed and then implemented by the Basque Government, in collaboration with public institutions and private entities, in the Basque Autonomous Community located in the Iberian Peninsula. Based on the sociolinguistic situation of the Basque language and the sociodemographic factors having an impact on its evolution, and taking into account the legal framework in force and the commitments made by the public authorities at the autonomous, national and european levels, it analyses the linguistics policy in favour of the knowledge and practice of Basque, paying particular attention to its objectives and strategic axes, its actions and its budget, its governance and its monitoring. …”
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The anomalously thundery month of June 1925 in southwest Spain: description and synoptic analysis by F. J. Acero, M. Antón, A. J. P. Aparicio, A. J. P. Aparicio, N. Bravo-Paredes, V. M. S. Carrasco, M. C. Gallego, J. A. García, M. Núñez, I. Tovar, J. Vaquero-Martínez, J. M. Vaquero

“…<p>In a routine search for meteorological events with a great impact on society in the Extremadura region (southwest interior of the Iberian Peninsula) using newspapers, the month of June 1925 was detected as exceptional due to the large number of thunderstorms associated with significant losses of human lives and material resources. …”
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