Poblamiento y sociedad en el Pacífico Colombiano

"La guerra es un asunto demasiado serio como para dejarlo en manos de los militares." Georges Clemenceau

Los apaches, pueblo del sudoeste de EE.UU., erraron por montañas y desiertos sin abandonar la vida nómada. Carecían de gobierno, adoraban a la naturaleza y evitaban las ceremonias. Divididos en bandas, vivían en sus territorios de caza. Místicos y materialistas al tiempo, creían en fuerzas sobrenaturales y en el "poder contra los enemigos", que les capacitaba, según la tradición, para derrotar a los adversarios. Se decía que algunos hombres sabios -como Gerónimo, jefe mítico- tenían capacidades adivinatorias. Aunque nunca fueron muy numerosos, los apaches resistieron con éxito a...

With its 27 contributions, this volume presents most of the papers delivered at the "XVe Colloque du Comite International de Paleographie". The conference's focus was regional and supra-regional influences on the development of Latin script from late antiquity and the early medieval period to the beginning of modern times. The geographic area considered in the articles spans the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe to Iceland. In their contributions, the authors have attempted to show the impact that not only local conditions but also European cultural and intellectual centres had on the...

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