Notes on Spanish Amulets

FOLK-BELIEFS IN THE BALKAN PENINSULA. BALKAN HOME-LIFE. By LUCY M. J. GARNETT. Pp. 309. Price ios. 6d. net. London : Methuen &; Co. Ltd. 1917. Reviewed by W. Crooke.     

塞浦路斯 地中海的蓝色牧歌

风光旖旎的塞浦路斯地中海之滨,实为美若仙境:犬牙交错的海滨岩石,清澈见底;青碧如绿松石般的海水,每一分钟都毫不费力地凝固成一幅画卷。目眩于地中海的蓝色梦幻,还有那静静漂浮的各色游艇,让我真实地以为它们竟浮于空中……     

More on the Kula: Ethnography,history, and theory

Leach, Jerry W., and Edmund Leach, eds. The Kula, New Perspectives on Massim Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xii + 577 pp. including plates, bibliography, index. $79.50 cloth.

Macintyre, Martha. The Kula, A Bibliography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. vi + 90 pp. including author index, appendix. $19.95 cloth.     

Estimations of Koala Habitat Loss on the Tilligerry Peninsula,NSW, 1954–1992

The Tilligerry Peninsula on the central NSW coast supports a significant Koala population. By 1992 residential and mining developments had reduced the identified Koala habitat on this peninsula to less than half of what was apparent in 1954. A major part of the habitat loss was caused by mining for silica and heavy mineral sands in the corridors connecting the forests of the peninsula to other areas of Koala habitat. The degree of habitat loss in three types of land use over four periods between 1954 and 1992 is examined.     

Taphonomic and Methodological Perspectives of Leporid Hunting During the Upper Paleolithic of the Western Mediterranean Basin

Leporid (rabbit and hare) bones have been shown to yield important information about subsistence practices, mobility patterns, and demographic trends during the Paleolithic of the western and eastern Mediterranean regions. Studies of Spanish Paleolithic caves rich in rabbit bones suggest that residential mobility patterns influence the degree of leporid hunting through time. Studies of Paleolithic sites in the eastern Mediterranean suggest that leporids were hunted in large numbers only after population sizes and densities reached certain thresholds. This paper reviews and critiques these studies based on current taphonomic and ecologic information about leporids. Leporid hunting during the Upper Paleolithic of central Portugal is then discussed and compared to these existing models. These latter data suggest that rabbit hunting in central Portugal does not conform to any existing model, suggesting that local factors of leporid density and environmental conditions likely influenced the nature and timing of small game acquisition during the Upper Paleolithic.     

燕翼围及赣南围屋源流考

燕翼围,是赣南围屋中较具特色的围屋之一,对它的调查研究,有助于解决围屋民居的一些基本问题。如围屋的历史文化背景、围屋的发生发展、围屋的构造特点等问题,因此,具有举一反三的意义。一、史略杨村,本为杨姓人开基建村,但自明永乐年间赖姓入迁此后,便逐渐成了赖氏的天下,如今不仅杨村没有了杨姓,且整个镇辖区内,也没有杨姓了（嫁过来的女人除外）。此地物产素以生产和加工香菇闻名于世,人称“太平香菇”,是国内著名的香菇集散地市场。民谚有“药不到樟树不灵,菇不到杨村不香”之称。燕翼围的创建人为赖上拔,据《八修桃川赖…     

Minateda rock shelters (Albacete) and post-palaeolithic art of the Mediterranean Basin in Spain: pigments,surfaces and patinas

The inorganic and organic fractions of two microsamples of prehistoric paint from the same site, the Minateda rock shelters, are analysed here for the first time. The two samples correspond to two rock shelters of different styles (Levantine and schematic) – Abrigo Grande de Minateda (The Great Rock Shelter of Minateda) and Abrigo del Barranco de la Mortaja (Del Barranco de la Mortaja Rock Shelter). Since its discovery, historiographical tradition has emphasised the Abrigo Grande de Minateda, with its magnificence and complexity, as emblematic of the origin and evolution of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). Four complementary techniques –Microphotography, Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), Raman Spectroscopy and Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectroscopy (GC–MS)– were combined to identify and characterise the physicochemical properties of the paint and of the surface. We present an interpretation of the results that leads us to define complex taphonomic alterations beyond the usual distinction of layers that include the surface, pigments and patinas.     

Notes on the British association meeting at Glasgow, 1901

Im Australischen Busch, und an den Küsten des Korallenrneeres ; Reiseerlebnisse und Beobachtungen eines Naturforschers in Australien, Neu Guinea, und den Molukken. Von Richard Semon, Professor in Jena. Mit 85 Abbildungen und 4 Karten. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1886. Pp. xvi + 569. Price M. 15 ; bound 16"50.

Monomotapa (Rhodesia). Its Monuments and its History from the Most Ancient Times to the Present Century. By the Hon. A. Wilmot, Member of the Legislative Council, Cape of Good Hope. With Preface by H. Rider Haggard. Maps and Plates. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Pp. 260. Price 6s.

In New South Africa: Travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia. By H. Lincoln Tangye. London : Horace Cox, 1896. Pp. viii + 432.

Der Amazonas: Wanderbilder aus Peru, Bolivia, und Nordbrasilien. Von Damian Freiherrn von Schütz‐Holzhaiisen. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1895. Pp. xix + 444. Price 7M

Streifzüge durch Grossbritannien. Von Gustap F. Steffen. Aus dem schwedischen von Dr. Oskar Keyher. Stuttgart: Hobbing und Büchle, 1896. Pp. 387. Price 7 Marks.

Autour du Tonkin. Par Henri Ph. D'Orléans. 4me édition. Paris : Calmann Lévy, 1896. Pp. 535. Price 3.50 Frs.

A History of Egypt during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Dynasties. By W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.O.L., LL.D. With 160 Illustrations and 4 Maps. Pp. 353. London : Methuen and Co., 1896. Price 6s.

The History of Mankind. By Professor Friedrich Batzel. Translated from the second German edition by A. J. Butler, M.A. With Introduction by E. B. Tylor, D.C.L., F.E.S. Vol. I. London : Macmillan and Co., 1896. Pp. xxiv+486.

Leitfaden zur Geschichte der Kartographie in tabellarischer Darstellung. Von Dr. W. Woleenhauer, in Bremen. Breslau : Ferdinand Hirt, 1895. Pp. 93.

Complete Geography. By Alex. Everett Frye. Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Co., 1896. Pp. 208. Price $1.25.

Man and Ms Markets: A Course in Geography. By Lionel W. Lyde, M.A. London : Macmillan and Co., 1896.

Chamonix and the Range of Mont Blanc. A Guide by Edwaed Whymper. London : John Murray, 1896. Pp. xiv + 189. Price 3s. net.

Western Australian Year‐Booh for 1894–95. By Malcolm A. C. Fraser, Registrar‐General of Western Australia, F.R.G.S., F.R.C.Inst. Perth: Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1896. Pp. 393.

The Island of Capri: A Mediterranean Idyll. By Ferdinand Gregorovius. Freely translated by M. Douglass Fairbairn. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Pp. 155.