“极端”的罗布泊

<正>每年的3月23日是"世界气象日"。在确定本刊今年3月号反映气候变化的选题时,我想到了罗布泊,并用了"极端"一词来形容。说起来心情也很复杂,因为在新疆工作期间,几次深入罗布泊湖心地带,我对那里的自然环境和干旱气候有切身感受,罗布泊作为干旱地带的典型代表确有其独特性。本来"泊"是与"湖"并列的词语,是碧波万顷、群鸟翔集、绿树成荫的形象概念,如"镜泊湖""梁山泊"和"团泊洼"等等,给人以神清气爽的感觉,而罗布泊呢,无水、无草、无生命,曾经     

远去的野马和野骆驼

野马是家马的祖先。马对人类社会的贡献可谓大矣!而青海曾经是野马的故乡,可惜的是野马已经在它的故土绝迹了!野骆驼,这种神秘的动物,在青海西部     

Diverse lifestyles and populations in the Xiaohe culture of the Lop Nur region,Xinjiang, China

The archaeological culture found in Xiaohe Cemetery (1980–1450 BC) is one of the early Bronze Age cultures in Xinjiang, northwestern China. The material assemblages from Xiaohe culture display features with both eastern and western influences. These east-west cultural and dietary interactions may be observed via the diet of the Xiaohe population. This paper examined the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of human and animal bones and human hairs from the Xiaohe Cemetery and compared with those of human bones from the Gumugou Cemetery, another Xiaohe culture site. The results indicate that the diets of the peoples from the Xiaohe culture varied significantly over different periods. The unified diets of the earlier periods reflect that an admixed population first settled in the Lop Nur region and primarily engaged in animal husbandry. In the later periods, the transformations in the human diets in this region reflect that new immigrants constantly relocated here and promoted population complexity over time. Moreover, this population occasionally produced small quantities of domesticated wheat and millet. The complex population and diversified economy of the Xiaohe culture were due to the expansion of the coeval cultures in the Eurasian steppe and eastern immigrants. Additionally, the millet cereal was probably mainly used for ritual practices rather than for staple food in the later periods.     

华夏论坛:救救骆驼

在阿拉善的巴丹吉林沙漠,我听到这样的故事:交通闭塞的沙漠腹地人口稀少,牧民的孩子要到外面去上学,每年寒暑假,家长就用骆驼把他们接回来,开学了,再送出去.     

仰望梅里 路遇奇迹

<正>梅里雪山,位于云南省迪庆藏族自治州德钦县西边约20千米横断山脉中段的怒江与澜沧江之间,平均海拔6000米以上,被称为太子十三峰,主峰海拔高达6740米,是云南的第一高峰。由于气候原因,梅里雪山常年笼罩在雪幕和云层里。难得一见的日照金山景观往往发生在晴日的凌晨,太阳光越过阻碍突然照射在雪山顶上,然后逐渐扩大,形成绝美的日照金山奇观,持续20分钟左右,最后雪山整体变白,失去金色影像。而雨崩村,这个近几年来在众多摄影和户外旅行者中耳熟能详的村落,便坐落在梅     

遥望玉树

古老而神奇的玉树玉树位于青海南部高原,境内江河纵横,山峦起伏,巍峨的昆仑山屹立于北部,可可西里山、祖尔肯山屏障于西部,唐古拉山绵亘于南部,巴颜喀拉山逶迤     

The Heritagescape: Looking at Landscapes of the Past

Heritage sites are one of the most visible, accessible and tangible manifestations of heritage and are also some of the essential building blocks of heritage. Yet we are still without a sense of how they operate over time and in relation to each other. This paper will introduce the notion of the ‘heritagescape’ as a means of interpreting and analysing heritage sites as unique social spaces that offer an experience of the past. In contrast to previous attempts to investigate these places, the heritagescape offers the means to focus both on the underlying similarities and also on the relationships of different sites to each other. As such, heritagescape offers a coherent and overarching methodology by which to identify the universal processes and elements that characterise heritage sites and will allow us to take our examination of heritage as a cultural phenomenon into the future.     

Reclaiming Vision: Looking at landscape and the body

This paper responds to feminist critiques of the masculinity of the landscape tradition within geography. It draws upon reassessments of the gaze within film theory, art history and cultural studies as well as within representational practice. It does so in order to reclaim the concept of landscape as a theoretical tool and subject of study for a feminist cultural geography. In theorising a reclamation of looking and landscape through a critical feminist approach, issues of vision and space, gender and representation, politics and pleasure are brought forcefully together through considering images of the male body as landscape by two contemporary women artists. While recognising the politics of representation, the aim is to deconstruct ideas of an unproblematic women's vision and of a singular or essential male or female gaze. Despite the way in which the metaphor of the body/land has been employed to justify both approaches to women and the environment and to legitimate colonisation, this paper suggests that with regard to both the body and landscape we need to look again and reconsider the radical potential of visual pleasure and traditions of visual representation.     

Camels in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire

This paper describes the camel bones discovered in two Late Roman contexts from Arlon (Belgium). The morphological and metrical analyses identify the animal as a dromedary.