Midwest Archaeological Conference 2014 Distinguished Career Awards

This paper presents and contextualizes the results of recent research at the Cedar Creek Earthworks (AaHq-2) in Essex County, Ontario, one of the few remaining Late Prehistoric earthen enclosures in the western Lake Erie region. First documented in the 1930s, the site consists of a unique semicircular berm and ditch feature to which has been appended three earthen projections or “nodes.” Despite a combination of remote sensing, testpitting, and targeted test excavations both within and beyond the earthworks, a dearth of material culture remains and subsurface features (including evidence for a palisade) suggests the site did not serve as a village and raises questions regarding the role(s) Cedar Creek played in the lifeways of past aboriginal populations.     

中国藏学研究珠峰奖第二届评奖活动成功举行(英文)

<正>The second meeting for the choosing of China Tibetological Jomolangma awards has come to a successful conclusion and the solemn ritual of handing out prizes was held at the China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing on May 31, 2010.     

“全国博物馆十大陈列展览精品”评选标准的完善

1997年启动的"全国博物馆十大陈列展览精品"评选活动已成功举办了十四届,经历了起步期、发展期、成熟期和变革期四个发展时期,先后实行了三种评选办法。这期间评选标准不断完善,越来越具有包容性与开阔的视野。为构建更合理的评选体系,可从简化活动名称、完善评选流程、公开评选标准细则、深化入选标准等方面着手,以推动博物馆事业的持续发展。     

Moderating Local Capacity: Exploring EO 12372's Intergovernmental Review Effects on Federal Grant Awards

This article asks whether the Reagan Executive Order (EO) 12372 matters for intergovernmental fiscal relations today. To address this question, federal grant receipts from programs that are, and programs that are not, covered by EO 12372 are compared by examining the differential effects of political and local administrative capacity on each. Grant receipts are examined by coding federal grant award data from 1993 to 2003 using Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance reference numbers. In the case state, Kentucky, Area Development Districts are the regional functionaries for the state single point of contact clearinghouse, by virtue of which status they review proposals for federal funding originating in, or affecting, their districts. Since federal award decisions take clearinghouse information into account on grant programs covered by EO 12372, differences in the effects of local capacity on receipt of grants covered and not covered by the EO are expected. Methodology used in this post‐only analysis is pooled cross‐sectional time series analysis with panel corrected standard errors. Results focus attention on the differential effects of government administrative and political capacity as they apply to federal grants covered, and not covered, by the EO.     

Population relationships of later Pleistocene hominids: A multivariate study of available crania

The Neanderthal populations of the Upper Pleistocene have been regarded by a number of anthropologists as direct ancestors to modern man. Results of multivariate analyses conducted in this study suggest that early Neanderthal crania were morphologically more like modern Homo sapiens than were the later Neanderthals. The implications of these results are discussed in the light of archaeological evidence and comparative studies of Pleistocene crania from outside Europe.