Hand stencils are an intriguing feature of prehistoric imagery in caves and rockshelters in several parts of the world, and the recent demonstration that the oldest of those in Western Europe date back to 37 000 years or earlier further enhances their significance. Their positioning within the painted caves of France and Spain is far from random, but responds to the shapes and fissures in the cave walls. Made under conditions of low and flickering light, the authors suggest that touch—‘palpation’—as much as vision, would have driven and directed the locations chosen for these stencils. Detailed study of the images in two Cantabrian caves also allows different individuals to be distinguished, most of whom appear to have been female. Finally, the project reveals deliberate associations between the stencils and features on the cave walls.

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also of interest as it brings inspiring ideas through a 'view from the outside' (from a non-ARS specialist) on how aerial photographs can enrich the knowledge of amateur historians, or even a wider public, in their study of the local past, including thoughts on how to organize 'courses' on the management and use of this sort of imagery for people who find creative work with this resource interesting. The final part, entitled 'Military archaeology', deals with the ever-increasing interest of ARS scholars in the investigation of military aerial and satellite imagery for the study, management, and protection of both world wars and Cold War heritage, such as components and defensive systems, which is a field currently the focus of predominantly British specialists (cf. Winton & Horne, Chapter 2, p. 7), but also for the identification of wartime grave sites (Chapter 24 by M. J. Abicht) and for other purposes. To conclude, my general impression is that Landscapes through the Lens is a valuable work for more than one reason. The volume brings a structured assortment of studies based on remotely-sensed image data. As such, readers get a very good idea about the archival/historical aerial imagery, and, better, about themes which are now predominantly studied in this sub-field of ARS. Anglo-American editors rightly realized that inviting authors from almost the whole world enables readers to see the wide variety of approaches to the slowly developing work with historical photographs spread in archives all over the world, whose quantity is more or less known and whose quality is certainly invaluable. This truly international (global, in fact) volume has a good chance to fulfil expectationsto positively influence both a professional audience and amateur individuals, and support them in their efforts to investigate archives and to map their contents, and to do work with archival and historical aerial images. Integrating this sort of data with other kinds of archaeological and environmental sources is vital from the perspective of both theoretically based ancient landscape research and archaeological heritage management.

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El Lugar de Interés Geológico de Jarama VI es un abrigo rocoso que contiene una secuencia litoestratigráfica formada por cinco unidades sedimentarias del Pleistoceno superior, tres de las cuales presentan restos arqueológicos del Paleolítico medio con una edad mayor de 50 ka BP. En una de ellas se ha recuperado un resto óseo de Homo neanderthalensis. Para preservar toda la información analógica disponible sobre este LIG y contar con un registro digital del mismo, hemos llevado a cabo tres proyectos consecutivos cuyos objetivos se centraron en la obtención de una cartografía digital de detalle del yacimiento y su entorno, la digitalización del registro arqueológico analógico de las excavaciones realizadas entre 1989-1993, la creación y cumplimentación de una Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales y la realización de un análisis microespacial y estadístico del yacimiento, a la vez que hemos llevado a cabo un estudio hidráulico de las paleoinundaciones observadas en su registro sedimentario.