REVISITING GUGE,NGARI AFTER 12 YEARS

<正>EDITOR’S NOTES: Mr.Cheng Weidong is a senior journalist on a national pictorial magazine.He enjoys a Special Government Allowance from the State Council.He w...     

OUR GRANDPA GEORGE SCHALLAR RETURNS TO TIBET AFTER TEN YEARS

正Dr. George Beals Schallar, born in 1933, is a senior scientist within the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Since the 1950s, his efforts have been bent toward finding and conserving the wildlife of Asia, Africa, and South America. Needless to say, he is recognized around the world for being one of the most outstanding wild biologists of the 20th century, something even Time acknowledged in one of its publications.     

True Accounts OF THE NINE YEARS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE IN YUSHU

正Many people use significant events to denote certain points in time.This can be seen when people say things like"before the founding of the new nation"or"after the great economic reform began".Yushu,for example,is often referred to as"Old Yushu"and"New Yushu",with the dividing line placed before and after liberation.The devastating earthquake that occurred on April 14,2010,     

REVISITING LITHIC SCATTERS: A CRM PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The scope of an archaeological survey may be defined by environmental or cultural boundaries, or by arbitrarily defined boundaries, which is generally the case in cultural resource management (CRM) surveys. The most common site type encountered during the course of almost any Phase I CRM survey is the temporally nondiagnostic “lithic scatter.” The majority of surveys conducted within the United States today are compliance driven, and thus most lithic scatters are discovered and recorded by CRM firms. They are therefore investigated according to state standards, and their potential for contributing to the archaeological record is evaluated according to criteria established under the National Historic Preservation Act. Under these circumstances, the significance of the vast majority of these sites is dismissed outright during the course of initial investigation and reporting. While nondiagnostic lithic scatters may often be uninteresting as individual units of analysis, this paper argues that in aggregate they represent a vital component of the archaeological record. It further argues that their potential value as individual units of analysis is often dismissed too casually. The paper demonstrates that under currently accepted field methodology, many of these sites are not adequately investigated and are not entered into any meaningful database. Recommendations for improving the initial investigation and interpretation of these sites are offered, based on recent initiatives taken in Louisiana by the U.S. Forest Service on Kisatchie National Forest.     

REVISITING THE DEAD AT HELENA CROSSING,ARKANSAS

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a bioarchaeological reanalysis of the skeletal remains interred in the Middle Woodland burial mounds at the Helena Crossing site (3PH11). Based on current bioarchaeological methods, our reanalysis offers summaries of the sex and age estimates, pathologies, and trauma of the burials from Helena Crossing that are useful for their subsequent interpretation. We also document previously unrecognized evidence of postmortem processing in specific burials as evidenced by cut and chop marks that are associated with defleshing, disarticulating, and possibly mutilating particular corpses. We note the special attention paid to detaching and processing the mandibles and/or maxillas of several burials that indicates, along with evidence from other sites, that the mouth was an important symbolically charged orifice during the Middle Woodland period in the Eastern Woodlands.     

精品15年·时尚盛典 荣耀巨献

2008年1月8日,引领时尚生活15年的《精品购物指南》携旗下系列时尚媒体,在北京长安大戏院呈现了精品15年·时尚盛典。这是一次星光璀璨、精彩纷呈的盛会,著名导演田壮壮担任晚会总导演,冯小刚、顾长卫、何平、张一白、张扬、海岩、赵宝刚、石康、康洪雷、宋柯、张亚东、陈坤、陆毅、黄圣依、柳云龙、袁立、佟大为、苗圃、刘孜、马伊俐、郭晓冬、于娜、韩红、郑钧、羽泉、老狼、伊能静、吴佩慈、李     

REVISITING PLATFORM MOUNDS AND TOWNHOUSES IN THE CHEROKEE HEARTLAND: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH

Abstract

This article describes the development and initial results of the Western North Carolina Mounds and Towns Project, a collaborative endeavor initiated by the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research Program at the University of Georgia. The goal of this project is to generate new information about the distribution of late prehistoric mounds and historic period townhouses in western North Carolina. This ongoing research has produced updated location and chronological data for 15 Mississippian period mounds and historic Cherokee townhouses, and led to the discovery of a possible location for the Jasper Allen mound. Using these new data, I suggest that David Hally's model for the territorial size of Mississippian polities provides a useful framework for generating new research questions about social and political change in western North Carolina. I also posit that the cultural practice of rebuilding townhouses in place and on top of Mississippian period platform mounds, a process that Christopher Rodning describes as “emplacement,” was common across western North Carolina. In terms of broader impacts, this project contributes positively to the development of indigenous archaeology in the Cherokee heartland.     

AFTER HILLFORTS

Summary. Hillforts constitute a dominant element in the settlement pattern of Iron Age Wessex. This paper examines the nature of hillforts in the light of recent excavations, and seeks to demonstrate how, over the Early and Middle Iron Age (c. 600–100 BC), these focal places acquired a range of functions central to the articulation of the socio-economic system. At developed hillforts, cycles of exchange were orchestrated by the elite. The demise of hillforts about 100 BC is considered in the light of indigenous developments and external factors. Explanations are sought for this transformation from which the very-different Late Iron Age system emerged.     

我画西藏30年

算起来,我画西藏的时间已经有37年了。在西藏的日子是我最难忘的人生经历,西藏是我最重要的绘画题材。大学时代,充满对远方的幻想,喜欢看杰克伦敦、海明威的书,向往他们的传奇经历。1983年陈丹青的《西藏组画》的展览和发表对我触动很大,我被高原上的藏族人的形象、西藏文化、高原上的大自然所吸引,知道了还有那样一个神奇的地方和那样一个质朴的民族。     

REVISING THE PAST / REVISITING THE PRESENT: HOW CHANGE HAPPENS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY

This article investigates the various forces that may help to explain the ongoing historio‐graphical phenomenon of revision. It takes as its point of departure Michel de Certeau's understanding of the writing of history as a process consisting of an unstable and constantly changing triangulated relationship among a place (a recruitment, a milieu, a profession), analytical procedures (a discipline), and the construction of a text (or discourse). For de Certeau, revision is the formal prerequisite for writing history because the very distance between past and present requires continuous innovation simply to produce the objects of historical knowledge, which have no existence apart from the historian's identification of them. The specific nature of revision at a given moment is determined by the specificities of the process as a whole, that is, by the characteristics of place, procedure, and text and their contemporary relational configuration. Taking the rise of “linguistic‐turn” historiography as exemplary of the process of historical revision in its broadest possible meaning, the article seeks to discover the possible “causes” for that turn. It begins with an analysis of the psychological roots of poststructuralism as a response to the holocaust and its aftermath, and then proceeds to explore the possible economic and social transformations in the postwar world that might account for its reception, both in Europe but also, more counterintuitively, in the United States, where postmodernism proved to have an especially strong appeal. Added to this mix are the new patterns of social recruitment into the historical profession in the “sixties.” the essay suggests that, to the extent that revision is understood as the result of the combined effect of psychological, social, and professional determinations, it is unlikely that there will ever be genuine consensus about the sources of revision in history, since all historians bring to their work differing congeries of psychological preoccupations, social positions, and professional commitments.     

YINGDRA'S 21 YEARS IN LHASA

<正>2017 marks Yingdra's 21st year in Lhasa.Dark skin,big eyes,thick eyebrows,a straight nose,full lips,and perfect white teeth,this is a typical handsome Nepalese man.When Yingdra walked up to me and greeted me in fluent Tibetan,I was puzzled     

GARZE:FIFTY GLORIOUS YEARS

On November 24, 1950, the Xikang Provincial Tibetan Ethnic Group Autonomous Region (later renamed Garze Tibetan Ethnic Group Autonomous Prefecture) was created as the first of its kind in New China.GARZE IN 1950. Fifty years ago, most parts of Garze groaned under feudal serfdom. The manorial economy played the dominant role, so that social productivity was extremely low with a primitive production mode. No place in Garze was accessible by motor vehicle; Industry was almost zero, exce…