The rural landscape of Eastern Iberia Iron Age : agricultural intensification and sociopolitical dynamics
This paper focuses on the rural landscape during the Iberian Iron Age in the Valencia Region (Eastern Spain). This paper deals with two main issues. The first is to integrate and analyze the results of archeological fieldwork to understand the systems of settlement and land-use intensification during the Iberian Iron Age. The second issue addresses socio-economic aspects related to changes in the observable spatial patterns. These processes are characterized by the dynamics of urbanization and emergence of Iberian Early States.
Line -of -sight and Co St Surface Analysis Usi Ng Gis *
This review article assesses the majority of accessible archaeological studies based on two GIS techniques (viewshed analysis and cost surface analysis) over the decade 1990-2000. The two techniques are taken together because of certain similarities in methodology and underlying theoretical principles, which express an emphasis on the human experience of being and moving in the landscape; not surprisingly, these techniques have been at the centre of processual – postprocessual debate almost from the beginning.
Corporations and the Market for Law
The state competition for corporate law has long been studied as a distinct phenomenon. Under the traditional view, corporations are subject to a unique choice-of-law rule, the internal affairs doctrine (IAD). This rule is explained as a historical accident, or by the special logistics of the corporate contract. The resulting market for corporate law appears to have special characteristics, particularly including the dominance by the single state of Delaware. This paper challenges the traditional view. It shows that the corporate law market is best understood as a special application of the general market for law. Any differences are matters of degree rather than kind, and are explained by considerations underlying enforcement of all choice-of-law contracts rather than by factors unique to corporations. It follows that theories of corporate competition that ignore the broader law market context are incomplete, and that the competition for corporate law carries lessons for the law market generally. Moreover, the connection between the corporate and other law markets has implications for the nature of corporate law, the constitutional status of the IAD, the scope of the IAD, and for the relationship between state and federal law.