闯入南澳永无岛

有人戏称,澳大利亚是个袋鼠比人多的国度。不过想寻访这批好动“居民”的住所也并不是一件容易的事情。幸好在南澳首府阿德菜德邻近的袋鼠岛,我可以尽情亲近它们。     

澳洲新金山,谁找到金子就归谁

<正>金子,这种黄色的金属从古至今,从中国到全球,人人都爱。钻石、铂金更加稀有贵重,但都无法替代黄金的地位。从人类社会发展来看,黄金才是真正全球通用的货币,财富的象征。埃及法老图坦卡蒙用它做成面具陪葬,缅甸仰光至今的标志性建筑就是华丽丽的重达7000公斤的大金塔。而"中国大妈"在今年黄金价格暴跌时抄底,300吨的豪放交易量震惊华尔街大亨们。     

不一样的澳洲行

一次澳大利亚、新西兰之行,让我体会到世界之大,的确有很多不一样的地方,整理如下小文,供初澳洲行的旅人借鉴。     

中原鸟影

良好的生态环境为生物多样性提供了物质保障,一年四季各种鸟类不断在此繁衍生息。这里数量最多好还是雁鸭类,每到迁徙季节,成千上万的大雁和野鸭都会汇集于此,每天清晨成群结队地到附近麦地里觅食,然后随着落霞返回水面。     

THE WUSUN IN NORTHEASTERN CENTRAL ASIA

Among the peoples mentioned in Chinese dynastic chronicles are the Xiongnu and other steppe nomads such as the Yuezhi and the Wusun. The Xiongnu forced both these peoples to abandon their camping grounds and move to Zhetysu. Numerous sites in Tuva of the Late Scythian period (those of the Uyuk–Sagly culture) reveal ties with the Xiongnu and suggest that they were associated with the Wusun. Artifacts from Suglug-Khem-1 and -2 and Khayirakan, Tuva, specifically mirrors with side handles, hairpins, wire earrings, small wooden four-legged tables, painted vessels, etc., are paralleled by finds from burials of the low-ranking Wusun in Zhetysu. Before arriving at Zhetysu, the Wusun crossed the Altai-Sayan highland and the Irtysh below Lake Zaisan, where their presence is attested by sites of the Kula-Zhurga type. The distinctive features of the latter are flexed burials in stone cists and vessels resembling those from Tuva in shape; other artifacts are extremely rare and similar to those from burials of the low-ranking Wusun in Zhetysu.     

NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN CENTRAL GERMANY

Summary. This paper investigates the changes in settlement patterns characteristic of early agricultural groups in the Middle Elbe/Saale region (DDR) from the fifth to the beginning of the second millennium bc. It uses the outstanding quantity of information available from this region on the distribution of prehistoric sites to describe the structure of settlement and to define the main contrasts over this period.