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The ongoing investigations at the Silla del Papa site (Tarifa, Cádiz) have uncovered a large urban nucleus, located at the summit of Sierra de la Plata. This town, the original Baelo, was transferred to the coast early in the reign of Augustus. The excavations carried out in 2014-2016 have made it possible to fix the date of its abandonment more precisely, at between 40 and 20 BCE, to examine the layout of the town from the Republican era, which is characterised by multi-storeyed houses backing onto rock, and to uncover a crematorium used between the end of the 3rd century BCE until the end of the 1st century BCE, unique in Baetia, with two types of monuments: tumular and turriform.

At the mining area of El Centenillo (Baños de la Encina, Jaén) during several archaeological superficial studies and surveys a great amount of ancient fossilized miners works remains have been found inside the “socavones” (mines entrances) and “rafas”. Nevertheless, the insider part of the mine has not been studied yet. Therefore, in September 2010 we decided to carry out the first archaeological exploration. The main goal of this exploration was to document and identify those ancient subterranean works in order to identify them from the most modern and contemporary that could have been still intact. This first campaign was done at the same time as the archaeological excavation of the Bronze Age site of Peñalosa. Such work has been focussed in the exploration and the examination of the ancient mining works at the double vein of Mirador-Pelaguindas as well as in the South and its respective Northern veins and the results of it can be found in this paper.

The article puts together the contributions of fourteen researchers, specialists of the most diverse sectors of the African archaeology (palaeolithic industries, néolithisation, history of the breeding, rock art, emergence of the complex societies, ferrous metallurgy, developments of soils, on concerning subjects of regions very contrasted and scattered on the whole continent (South Africa, East Africa, Western Africa, Sahara, Maghreb). Its coherence finds its origins in the prejudice to centre the general reflection on the study of the socio-economic variability, in the time and in the space. Through the consideration of elements of this surprising mosaic, it is a question of wondering about the nature of the answers brought by the human groups confronted with the gnawing environments (pressure of the natural surroundings, socioeconomic relations, cultural and historic frames. Africa considered through these diverse facets thus becomes, for the authors, the major laboratory of reflection for the establishment of a reliable documentation on the crucial problem of the complexity of the relations between the Man and its environment.

The investigations engaged since 2007 on the site of La Silla del Papa (Tarifa, province of Cadix, Spain) have revealed an important hilly town, the likely birthplace of the bastulo-punic community who, under August, founded the town of Baelo. That hilly site, settled from the Xth to the Ist century B.C., has yielded numerous vestiges of a peculiar urbanism, partly conditioned by topographical constraints.

The title compound, C30H28N2S16, is a precursor to hybrid magnetic materials. The complete molecule is generated by a crystallographic inversion centre. In the crystal structure, the TTF core is not planar and adopts a chair conformation; the two C3S2 rings are folded around the S...S hinges, the dihedral angles being 17.14 (8) and 13.46 (7)°. There is a short S...S contact [3.4863 (14) Å] in the crystal structure.