高密度电阻率法在晋阳古城考古勘探中的应用

随着科技考古的发展,大量现代勘探手段被应用到考古领域中。在晋阳古城城墙考古勘探过程中,结合传统的考古技术手段,同时引入了地球物理方法中高密度电阻率法,研究其在考古工作中的可行性,并最终取得了较好的效果。     

晋阳古城新发现城墙解剖

<正>2013年5～9月,晋阳古城遗址考古队在晋源镇康培集团苗圃内进行发掘时新发现一段城墙。新发现的城墙位于康培集团苗圃内西北角,西距大运高速公路约20米(图一)。此段城墙与地面上现存的西城墙方向一致,为了了解城墙的时代、夯筑技术等具体信息,在明确这段城墙的分布范围后,选择城墙南段进行了解剖。现结合发掘时的情况,简报如下。一、地层堆积新发现城墙的地层堆积,从解剖城墙时的探沟南壁剖面看,城墙东西两侧的地层堆积大致相     

晋阳古城遗址2012年试掘简报

<正>晋阳古城遗址位于山西省太原市晋源区,为全国重点文物保护单位。2006年,国家文物局、财政部将晋阳古城遗址列入"十一五"期间全国百大遗址保护总体规划项目。2010年,晋阳古城遗址获首批国家考古遗址公园立项。2012年2月中旬至5月下旬,为配合国家考古遗址公园的建设,我们对晋阳古城进行了小范围试掘,发掘区位于古城营村南约200米(图一),共布设5×5米探方9个,发掘面积225平方米。     

晋源苗圃内1号夯土解剖

<正>2013年7～11月,为了了解整个晋阳古城遗址范围内的地层堆积规律,寻找城址内城门、道路、给排水系统等线索,为确定各个历史时期城市的范围和布局提供依据,晋阳古城考古队在晋源苗圃内进行了试掘(图一)。试掘采用探沟发掘方法。试掘过程中在探沟TG1080~TG1082内发现夯土遗迹,在确定夯土的东西边界后,对夯土进行了部分解剖。现将解剖夯土的结果简要报告如下。一、地层堆积探沟试掘过程中发现,苗圃内的地层堆积均     

晋阳古城罗城“东马地”遗址出土铁铤铜镞的技术研究

晋阳古城遗址位于山西省太原市西南晋源区晋源镇所辖19个自然村范围内,面积20余平方公里。2013-2015年晋阳古城考古队在古城罗城"东马地"遗址发掘出土了大量的箭镞。本文采用金相显微镜、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和X射线能谱分析仪(EDS)对出土的37件铁铤铜镞样品进行检测分析,实验表明这些箭镞均为铸造成型。铜质部分主要合金类型为铜锡铅合金和铜锡合金,铤部均为铁质,大多数已锈蚀。实验结果为研究晋阳地区古代箭镞的制作工艺提供了重要的资料。     

漫话苏州古城墙的变迁

自2500多年前建城至今,苏州城原址历千年而大致格局不变,这在中外城市史上都是罕见的。苏州古城墙现存城门三座分别是盘门、胥门、金门、以及恢复重建的阊门城门及部分城墙。历经2500余年的风风雨雨,苏州古城屡遭战火破坏,但都在不久后即修复重建,其形制规模宏伟壮丽,特别是每门辟水陆两城门,为国内仅有。苏州的城墙与古今中外其他的古城墙遗址相比有极高的学术研究价值。     

高密度电阻率法探测土墩墓——以江苏省无锡市战国土墩墓为例

高密度电阻率法是在传统电阻率法的基础上发展起来的电探方法,它在考古勘探中具有一定的应用前景。本文采用高密度电阻率法对江苏省无锡市后宅乡4个土墩墓进行了探测实验,探讨了高密度电阻法探测土墩墓的可行性。     

太原市晋源区历史文物揽胜

<正>晋阳古城遗址晋阳古城至今已有两千五百多年历史,从公元前四九七年建城至公元九九四年宋太宗赵光义火烧水灌毁灭晋阳城的一千四百多年中,晋阳城规模宏大,军防体系健全,商业文化发达,俨然与长安、洛阳、开封等地并列为国内著名的大都市。曾是战国七雄之一的赵国都城、北齐别都、唐北都以及后唐、后汉、后晋等六朝古都,有"龙城之     

晋阳古城西南城墙水渠发掘简报

<正>2013年5～9月,晋阳古城遗址考古队在晋源镇康培集团苗圃内进行了一次发掘,发掘城墙部分时发现一条东西向的引水渠。水渠两端位于城墙东西两侧,中部叠压于夯土内(图一)。2014年5月,对其进行了解剖,现将发掘和解剖的结果简报如下。一、地层堆积根据解剖时的情况,结合水闸南壁剖面介绍如下。第1层:现代耕土层。灰褐色土,质地疏松,较杂乱,包含植物根系、碎石块、砖块等。厚15～25厘米。     

通古斯巴西古城遗址土体特性及PS加固试验

通古斯巴西古城遗址是新疆重要的土遗址之一,原为唐龟兹驻兵的安西都护府所在地。遗址中曾出土大批文物,对于研究西域的屯垦历史和古代城址布局等有重大意义。为了系统地研究了通古斯巴西古城遗址土的工程特性,在实地调查的基础上,通过室内试验对通古斯巴西古城遗址土的物理、力学、水理和化学性能进行测试。此外,还测定了不同PS浓度加固后遗址土重塑土块抵抗风蚀雨蚀能力的差异,进一步确定了PS的渗透加固措施对土质文物的防风化及雨蚀效果。结果表明,7%的PS溶液防风化抗雨蚀效果要更为显著。研究结果可为PS的施工应用提供依据。     

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.     

Hospital Drama: Visual Theatres of the Medical Rendezvous from Asylum to Hospital with Reference to Specific Works by Anna Furse

Abstract

This paper is informed by Furse’s practice as a theatre maker in two fields of output that are connected by two factors: first, the presence of the woman patient — hysteric/subfertile respectively — within the clinical gaze; second, the significance of the womb to each pathology. In the treatment of each (explored in Furse’s theatre), lens based technologies play their part, whilst the cultural and medical can be seen to have overlapped to produce specific meaning with regard to Her body and its spectacularity. The article presents an overview of some of the key issues in precisely how the woman’s body becomes spectacular within this prosthetic medical gaze and how the medical — and theatrically designed spaces to represent these — become meaningful and potent proxemics that in turn inform medical/ theatrical spectatorship. Overarching nineteenth-century protocols at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (where Furse’s Augustine (Big Hysteria) is set) to contemporary imaging technologies used in the treatment of subfertility with Assisted Reproduction Technologies (the topic of her Art of A.R.T. projects), it examines the way in which photography develops through cinema to X-Ray, ultrasound and then 3D/4D ultrasound to ‘capture’ the woman’s body in ways by which she becomes muted and exposed. These occular technologies that extend the gaze, first to an exterior subject and then, eventually, traversing the flesh without knife, lend specific performativity to the ‘patient’ women, within the context of hysterias and reproductive impairments respectively. Finally, issues of suspension of disbelief are addressed. The spectator’s faith in the screen-based image of Her spectacular body is interrupted in Furse’s work, which is also keenly interested in the effect of such imagery on the woman’s sense of Self. The historical and cultural leaps in this article argue that there is indeed a trajectory through the history of medical imaging since the first application of photography to anatomy to the more advanced scoping technologies of medical imaging today, and that in each era, the production of these images remain fraught with cultural implications.     

The Death of Alexander the Great – A Spinal Twist of Fate

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. Physical depictions of this historical figure reveal the likelihood of a cervical scoliotic deformity. This is substantiated with the medical history and is correlated with his untimely death. For the first time, it is concluded that Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome.