La docencia universitaria de la Epigrafía y Numismática en los nuevos títulos de Grado en Historia

[ES] Desde hace varios cursos académicos se han puesto en marcha en España las nuevas titulaciones universitarias adaptadas al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior y, en particular, los nuevos grados en Historia. Ello ofrece la posibilidad de que los historiadores podamos discutir cuáles han sido los aspectos positivos y negativos de dicha reforma, con el fin de poder valorar hasta qué punto ésta puede beneficiar o perjudicar la evolución de nuestras disciplinas y la formación de los futuros historiadores, particularmente en lo que se refiere a las materias de Epigrafía y Numismática, de larga tradición en las enseñanza universitaria.

Uranium-series ages of corals, sea level history, and palaeozoogeography, Canary Islands, Spain: An exploratory study for two Quaternary interglacial periods

[EN]We present the first U-series ages of corals from emergent marine deposits on the Canary Islands. Deposits at +. 20. m are 481 ± 39 ka, possibly correlative to marine isotope stage (or MIS) 11, while those at +. 12 and +. 8. m are 120.5 ± 0.8. ka and 130.2 ± 0.8. ka, respectively, correlative to MIS 5.5. The age, elevations, and uplift rates derived from MIS 5.5 deposits on the Canary Islands allow calculations of hypothetical palaeo-sea levels during the MIS 11 high sea stand. Estimates indicate that the MIS 11 high sea stand likely was at least +. 9. m (relative to present sea level) and could have been as high as +. 24. m.

Uranium-series ages of fossil corals from Mallorca, Spain: The Neotyrrhenian high stand of the Mediterranean Sea revisited

[EN] The emergent marine deposits of the Mediterranean basin have been recognized as an important record of Quaternary sea level history for more than a century. Previous workers identified what have been interpreted to be two separate high stands of sea in the late Quaternary, namely the "Eutyrrhenian" (thought to be ~ 120 ka) and the "Neotyrrhenian" (thought to be either ~ 100 ka or ~ 80 ka). On Mallorca, Spain, both of these named deposits lie close to present sea level, implying paleo-sea levels slightly above present during both marine isotope stages (MIS) 5.5/5e and either 5.3/5c or 5.1/5a. If these interpretations are correct, they conflict, at least in part, with sea level records from far-field localities.