新出隋豆卢贤与唐豆卢弘毅墓志跋

豆卢贤、豆卢弘毅墓志于2017年出土于陕西西咸新区空港新城。志文涉及豆卢氏改姓、豆卢贤家族世系及其与北周、隋、唐皇室的政治、婚姻等关系,为该家族的世袭传承及相关史事增添了新史料。     

唐郭仲文墓志及其家族葬地考

2010年9月至2011年2月,西安市文物保护考古研究院在西安市长安区韦曲街道办事处东兆余村北发掘了唐会昌二年(842年)郭仲文墓,出土一合墓志[1]。墓主郭仲文在两《唐书》中均有记载,为中唐名将汾阳郡王郭子仪之曾孙。此墓为研究唐代郭子仪家族提供了可靠的资料。一志文考释(一)世系与历官志文载墓主郭仲文"即尚父子仪之曾孙,     

唐成都府助教鲜腾墓志铭考释

2005年于成都西郊金沙村唐墓发掘出土的《唐故成都府助教鲜腾墓志铭》主要记载了墓主鲜腾的家族世系、墓主个人的仕宦经历以及墓主与唐代成都的南诏留学生之间的教学。作为现存唐人墓志中唯一在志文中直接反映唐与南诏关系的墓志,弥足珍贵,是研究唐南关系史的重要实物佐证。     

《唐乾陵令宗瑾墓志跋》匡补——兼与赵振华先生商榷

本文通过对《唐乾陵令宗瑾墓志跋》一文的商榷,认为此文对志文的标点存在几个问题,影响了对志文的理解,对其进行了匡正,并对志文中的几个问题进行了补充。     

陈法子墓志所见入唐百济遗民史事研究

洛阳邙山新出、归藏于西安大唐西市博物馆之《大周故陈府君墓志铭》为近年来出土之罕见入唐百济移民墓志。志文主要记载了陈法子先世源流、其曾祖以下的家族世系、显赫仕途及其本人入唐前后的仕宦经历。墓志为研究百济教育制度、官制、政区、族群结构提供了重要文献资料,补史之阙。从中亦可管窥唐廷对百济移民的安置政策、百济移民于唐代军事系统之融入以及百济移民在唐代士民社会中的族裔感知、家国情怀。     

江苏泰州新见唐代墓志略考

江苏泰州新发现一方唐故左清道率府仓曹参军卢公墓志,志主是唐代大族范阳卢氏的一员。志文记载了志主家族世系、仕宦经历和婚配情况,为研究唐代范阳卢氏世族提供了新史料,亦可补正相关史籍记载。志文中所载志主服食求仙一事为研究唐代的道教信仰及习俗提供了比较重要的资料。     

唐《盖巨源墓志铭》再考——以唐与南诏关系为重点

唐《盖巨源墓志铭》不仅记载了盖氏的来源、盖氏家族人物的宦历及生平,还反映了中晚唐时期朝廷为抵御南诏入侵,不断加强剑南西川军事力量的史事。盖巨源曾多次参加唐与吐蕃、南诏的战争,特别是志文中提到的几场中晚唐时期唐与南诏的战事,未见于传世史料。通过对盖巨源墓志的深入解读,加深了我们对唐代中晚期剑南西川军事形势的了解,同时也可了知中晚唐时期的部分地方将领倡导军事与文化修养并重的观念。     

唐《慕容智墓志》考释

甘肃省武威地区出土的唐吐谷浑喜王慕容智墓志记载了墓主的家族世系和入侍经历,填补了吐谷浑王族世系的空白.志文首次提及吐谷浑王族又一先茔"大可汗陵"的存在,明确了吐谷浑王族在武威地区至少存在两个陵区的事实.志石侧面还发现有两列未能释读的文字,初步推测应为失传已久的吐谷浑文.该墓志的发现为研究唐吐谷浑王族历史及游牧民族文字构造提供了弥足珍贵的资料.     

唐代武周时期的一方墓志

2006年初,河北涿州市出土了一方唐武则天时期的墓志,志主为范阳人王端。墓志刊刻于圣历二年,志文中使用了当时颁行的改体字8个,印证了武则天推行新字的史实,又称涿州为“涿城府”,对研究唐代前期涿州的地方历史及变迁有较高的史料价值。     

西安曲江缪家寨唐代杨筹墓发掘简报

2011~2012年,西安市文物保护考古研究院为配合基本建设,发掘清理了汉代至明代墓葬113座,其中有一座唐代墓葬(编号2011JGYM92)保存较为完好。墓葬为竖穴墓道土洞墓,出土有瓷罐、陶砚、铜镜、铜钱、铁锁等,还出土了一合墓志。据志文可知,墓主为唐故监察御史杨筹,葬于唐咸通七年(866年)。此墓的发掘为研究杨筹生平及杨氏家族世系提供了实物资料。     

Telling small stories: spaces of knowledge and the practice of geography

This article examines how the practice of learning geography, and the arenas in which knowledge-making takes place, can be usefully positioned within changing histories of the discipline. It contends that networks of action – understood through the intersection of social sites, subjects and sources – present a conceptual framework and narrative focus for the re-consideration of specific episodes from geography's past. The interventions made here are informed and illustrated by a 'small story' about the doing of geography. Based on different personal accounts, the story revives a series of events, encounters, dialogues and images dating back to the winter of 1951 at Glenmore Lodge, Scotland. This educational institution in the Cairngorm mountains offered children from urban areas the opportunity to learn field studies and the skills of 'outdoor citizenship'. Initially, the focus falls on Margaret Jack, a 14-year-old field-course participant. Her learning experiences are traced through personal letters, a diary and a field journal dating from that time, and her recent recollections of this event. Margaret's account dovetails with the story of her field studies instructor, Robin Murray. Robin's role is traced through his learning experiences as a geography undergraduate at Aberdeen University, and the recent recollections of Catriona Murray, his wife.     

Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht,Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus

The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. Performing an object such as ‘the economy’ hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection and bankruptcy, two subject categories were instituted: ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. These different categories were thought to account for the diverging temporalities and spaces of credit exchange in everyday economic life. The introduction of the commercial register, a media-technical apparatus, enabled a formal distinction between ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. However, this boundary was contested and proved to be porose.     

Two radiocarbon dates for freshwater shells from hierakonpolis: Archaeological and geological interpretations

Shells of two species of freshwater bivalve (Unio willcocksi Bullen Newton and Etheria elliptica Lamarck) from the predynastic Gerzean (Nagada II) Decorated Tomb at Hierakonpolis, Egypt have given dates of 5000±90 bp for the tomb, and 12,900±120 bp for an episode of Nile terrace accumulation (correlated here with the Sahaba-Darau aggradation event). The archaeological and geological significance of these results is discussed, together with an outline of problems associated with radiocarbon dating of shell. Comparisons are made with the few other radiocarbon dates available for the Predynastic period in Egypt and possible reasons for the presence of shells in the tomb are considered.     

Some chronological implications of a fossil molluscan assemblage from a neolithic site at Brook,Kent, England

The later post-glacial history of a valley in the chalk escarpment near Brook, Kent, is described, based on molluscan stratigraphy, archaeological evidence and radio-carbon dating. Differences in size and colour banding, respectively, of fossil and living representatives of two species of land snails, Pomatias elegans (Müller) and Cepaea nemoralis (L.), are correlated with climatic change during the post-glacial period. The problems of the use of fossil shells of these species as samples for radiocarbon dating are discussed.     

China's Dynamic Industrial Sector: The Internet Industry

A Singapore-based economic geographer explores and analyzes the spatially uneven evolution of the Internet industry in China, arguing that the country's immense regional disparity in the provision of Internet services is best explained by the interplay of place- and path-dependence. The author demonstrates how the highly uneven regional endowments in relevant industrial and entrepreneurial resources have led to the substantial and persistent regional imbalance within China's emerging "new economy." His initial survey of the country's 100 leading Internet content providers (firms), identified from a listing of ca. 11,700 commercial websites, is selectively augmented to reflect an increase of over 70 million Internet users in 2007, reaching a total of 253 million in June 2008, and thus overtaking the United States as the world's largest Internet market. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: L10, L86, O30. 6 figures, 1 table, 53 references.     

The 1911 International Exposition in Rome: architecture, archaeology, and national identity

This paper discusses the 1911 International Exposition in Rome and illustrates how this patriotic celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Sate utilized symbolic landscapes of architecture and archaeology to promote nationalist sentiments of italianità and romanità centered on the young capital of Rome. Through modern art exhibitions at the Valle Giulia, scientific conferences at the Castel Sant’Angelo, archaeological exhibits on the Roman Empire in the Baths of Diocletian, and regional Italian pavilions in the Piazza d’Armi, exposition officials offered a complex representation of Italian national identity that was modern yet ancient, cosmopolitan yet bucolic, European yet regional, and imperial yet developing.     

The Rise and Fall of Alexander the Great – The Need for Medical Analysis: Reply to Commentaries

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. By elucidating the nature of his death, we can better interpret various aspects of Alexandrian history. Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome. It would therefore be of significance to note that one of the greatest leaders in history who conquered much of the then known world may have been suffering from a physical disability.     

LEAD ISOTOPE ANALYSES OF ISLAMIC POTTERY GLAZES FROM FUSTAT,EGYPT*

Lead isotope analyses have been undertaken on a group of Islamic lead‐glazed pottery artefacts from Fustat, Egypt, spanning the period from the eighth to the 14th century ad , that had previously been the subject of a comprehensive typological, chronological, petrographic and technological study. Comparison of the lead isotope ratios for the glazes with those for lead ores from Egypt, Iran, Tunisia, Anatolia, Greece, Sardinia and Spain provided information on the possible sources of the lead used in the production of the glazes. The results show that the lead used in glaze production by the Islamic potters at Fustat was most probably obtained from distant ore sources in Iran or Tunisia, Sardinia, Spain and the Taurus Mountains. Different ore sources were favoured in different periods and, to a limited extent, for different types of pottery, but at no time did the Fustat potters use the potentially more accessible Egyptian ore sources.     

Australian Cenozoic Bryozoa, 2: Free-living Cheilostomata of the Eocene St. Vincent Basin,S.A., including Bonellina gen. nov

Schmidt, R., March 2007. Australian Cenozoic Bryozoa, 2: Free-living Cheilostomata of the Eocene St. Vincent Basin, S.A., including Bonellina gen. nov. Alcheringa 31, 67-84. ISSN 0311-5518.

Free-living bryozoans are diverse in the Eocene sediments of the St. Vincent Basin, South Australia. They include Bonellina pentagonalis gen. et sp. nov., Otionellina sp. cf. O. exigua (Tenison Woods), Otionellina sp. cf. O. cupola (Tenison Woods), Tubiporella magna (Tenison Woods), Celleporaria nummularia (Tenison Woods), and an indeterminate species only found as moulds. This diversity and abundance is highest in the sediments representing the initial transgressive marine facies, where they occur in ‘sand fauna’ bryozoan assemblages (e.g. with Melicerita and Siphonicytara). Free-living bryozoans decrease up-section and are absent from latest Eocene sediments, indicating a significant environmental shift.

Rolf Schmidt [rschmid@museum.vic.gov.au], Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Vic 3001, Australia; received 18.3.2005, revised 14.12.2005.