神兽镜中识天禽

我国古代铜镜的纹饰,大量的是以上古历史、传说和神话为题材。对于其中一些纹饰的称谓,如：青龙、白虎、朱雀、玄武、天禄、辟邪、穷奇、巨虚等等,有的是见诸于相关文献记载,有的则是根据铜镜的相关铭文或榜题而为人们所认识的。     

孤独的鹿之民大兴安岭深处的雅库特人

列车在中国最北端的铁路尽头--满归停下了,早春四月,大兴安岭北坡的额尔古纳河流域仍是冰封万里.我们换乘汽车颠簸了几个小时,到了额尔古纳左旗敖鲁古雅乡.     

潞简王陵石刻群石兽简释

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也谈三角缘神兽镜

三角缘神兽镜的产地有魏镜说、吴镜说和特铸说三种,这三种说法都有缺漏。三角缘神兽镜的性质、产地、发展需以辩证的眼光看待并进行通盘动态式的考察,将各种说法完善总结。随时间推移和形势变化,三角缘神兽镜的性质和铸造者身份都有可能发生变化。     

陈汉章批校本《资治通鉴》和《续资治通鉴》考述

陈汉章是近代著名经史学家,一生著作等身,遍及四部.批校本<资治通鉴>和<续资治通鉴>上有陈先生大量批校语.文章对其批校语略加考述分析.     

Monuments in the Desert: A Maritime Landscape in Namibia

Eduard Bohlen II, wrecked in 1909 on the coast of Namibia in Africa, has an illustrious history, which is part of a larger maritime cultural landscape linked to the diamond mining industry. The ship, like many artifacts and sites, served many different purposes over time and the historical and archaeological record incorporates different levels of meaning, some of which may be nationally divisive or reconciliatory. The role of historical archaeologists is not only to document, interpret, preserve and manage grandiose elements of heritage that evoke stakeholder nationalism, but also to explore the mundane, unsavory aspects of the historical narrative. In 2010, a team from the Program in Maritime Studies of East Carolina University supported by the Maritime Archaeology Division of the Windhoek Underwater Club investigated a surf boat, diamond mining settlement and some of the remaining structure of Eduard Bohlen II, while posing mitigation and management questions about legacy of historical memory within Skeleton Coast Park.     

沙漠腹地有绿洲

正内蒙古阿拉善左旗的通湖草原被誉为沙漠中的"伊甸园",这里古商道、古驼道、古遗址、古战场、沙漠湖泊、沙漠绿洲、沙漠草原、沙山岩画众多,再加上有不少美丽动人的传说。景区位于内蒙古和宁夏交界处的腾格里沙漠腹地,是古丝绸之路的要塞。     

沙漠中的金色之城:杰沙梅尔

<正>杰沙梅尔位于印度西部的拉贾斯坦邦,与巴基斯坦接壤。由于城内的建筑全都由黄砂岩建成,故有"金色之城"的美誉。每当黄昏来临,夕阳照在石头上,把每一块都变成了金子,整个城堡笼罩在一片金色的光雾里,行走其间的人和牛也都被染成金色,从远处看,城堡金光闪烁,犹如神话中纯金打造的宫殿,反射着人间没有的豪华。那里的人相信,杰沙梅尔原是天上的宫殿,只因中了魔法师的咒语,一夜之间,被移到了荒凉的塔尔沙漠腹地。     

《汝帖》摹刻汉墓石兽刻字考辨

东汉“天禄、辟邪”刻字分别见于宗资和州辅墓前石兽。依据相关资料进行研究发现,《汝帖》“天禄、辟邪”刻字是以宗资墓前石兽膊间拓本为底本,又摭拾了州辅墓碑间残剩十字摹刻入帖,因此《汝帖》辑存了古碑书法善之善者。     

Nomads of the Desert West: A shifting continuum in prehistory

The Desert West, a term first employed by Jesse D. Jennings to describe the geographic region where Desert culture evolved, is used to frame a discussion of adaptive diversity that focuses on the time period 1250 to 750 B.P. Variable pathways into and out of sedentism are explored and subsistence intensification, exchange, ideology, and warfare are discussed in relation to an adaptive mosaic of nomads and agriculturalists. I argue that a conjoint prehistory of the Great Basin and the Southwest is both possible and desirable and is needed to illuminate general social processes and major episodes of culture change affecting groups in the Desert West.     

中日画纹带佛兽镜探秘 中日画纹带佛兽镜的同模镜考(一)

现在存世的画纹带佛兽镜,主要出土于日本古坟时代的墓葬中,其名称源自画纹带神兽镜,是日本考古学术界的重大研究课题。因中国没有这方面的出土发现报道,画纹带佛兽镜极少进入中国考古学术界的视野(图1)。把画纹带佛兽镜引入中国学术文博界的是王仲殊,他在上世纪80年代初就指出:"这些画纹带佛兽镜,就其整个形制和纹饰而言,和画纹带神兽镜是十分相似的,所以,所谓的画纹带佛兽镜是画纹带     

黄河边的镇河兽与中国古代“镇”“压”文化

明人于谦治黄河水患时曾铸铁犀于开封城外,类此镇河兽在黄河边及其它水系都有发现,少数民族地区也有遗存。文章描述了这一特别的文化现象,认为它反映了中国古代的阴阳五行观念,并与古代民间宗教中的"镇""压"巫术及其风俗背景密切相关。     

基布兹沙漠花园“共产主义的乌托邦”

受初中课文《死海不死》的影响,以色列对我而言一直是个神秘的国度。也许是因为时差,或许是过于激动,到达死海的第二天早晨,我比太阳先起床了。拉开窗帘面对大海,我静静地等着太阳从约旦一边的山后缓缓升起,一点点地照亮整个世界。其实这一天我最期待的行程,是导游Harel带我们回他的家看父母聊聊天,而他们就住在以色列的＂公社＂——基布兹（Kibbutz）。基布兹是以色列的集体农庄,这里的一切财产和生产资料为全体成员所有,成员之间是完全平等的,     

On Behavioral Depression in White-tailed Deer

Behavioral depression is a decline in prey availability because of enhanced alert response, movement away from areas, increased social behavior, and other responses to predators. This form of resource depression is an alternative hypothesis to be contrasted to over-exploitation that potentially explains a decrease in hunting efficiency over time should the zooarchaeologist observe a decline in the relative abundance of remains of high-rank prey. Gregarious ungulates, such as many North American cervids, may exhibit such behavioral responses under predation. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), one of the most common high-rank prey animals from Holocene archaeological sites in eastern North America, is less gregarious, more r-selected, and exhibits greater home-range fidelity than other cervids. As a result, whitetails are less likely to exhibit behavioral depression than other North American ungulates, which may explain their common occurrence in Holocene archaeological faunas, such as that from the Eagle??s Ridge site in southeast Texas where resource depression appears to have occurred from 4,500 to 1,500?years ago. The behavioral ecology of ungulate species should be considered on a case-by-case basis to develop testable hypotheses about prehistoric human predation.     

向沙漠“进军”

在中国辽阔版图的西北角,有一片占到国土面积1/6的热土,那就是欧亚大陆的黄金地带,令游人心驰神往的新疆维吾尔自治区。在这里,壮观的自然景象应有尽有：从雪山草原到风蚀地貌,从云杉森林到高原湖泊,从长河落日到广袤草原,从戈壁绿洲到田园风光,人们不得不对它的广阔和博大发出由衷的赞叹。中国第一沙漠：塔克拉玛干曾几何时,新疆的＂大＂,又何尝不是路途遥远、交通困难的代名词。新疆塔克拉玛干沙漠,是中国西部一片浩瀚、干燥的沙质荒地,横卧在新疆塔里木盆地中部。在维吾尔语中,塔克拉玛干是＂进去出不来的意思＂。     

A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales,I & II / Studies on the Book of Deer

The web portal of the Folklore Archive of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, gives access to three databases: ArxiuFolk, the Database of the Folklore Archive; RondCat, the Catalan Folktale Search Engine; and BiblioFolk, the Bio-bibliographic Repository of Catalan Popular Literature. This article describes how these databases work and the possibilities they offer for researchers.     

踏沙而行,风景这边独好

沙漠,由于其特殊的地理环境特征成为了地球上最独特的自然景观之一。在我国古代,它是边塞诗中常见的意象,＂大漠沙如雪,燕山月似钩＂＂大漠风尘日色昏,红旗半卷出辕门＂＂君不见走马川行雪海边,平沙莽莽黄入天＂,茫茫沙海,无边无际,没有水源的滋养,没有绿树的庇荫,似乎除了戍边御敌的战士外,沙漠是鲜有人踏足的无人区。如今,沙漠已远离了战争的烽烟,一股沙漠旅游热正扑面而来。长河落日、黄沙漫天的风光不再只是历史资料记载中的图景,     

Nitrate ruins: the photography of mining in the Atacama Desert,Chile

A photographic album entitled Oficina Alianza and Port of Iquique 1899 illustrates the industrial development of nitrate mining in Chile. From the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, British capitalists dominated the extraction of Chilean nitrate and its export as a fertilizer and an explosive. The Oficina Alianza, a nitrate works at the centre of British monopoly of the trade, is, as other oficinas across the Antofagasta and Tarapacá regions of the Atacama Desert, a ruin. This article considers the correspondences between Alianza’s photographic album, a record of a working nitrate oficina, and its abandoned industrial structures. It examines the ruin and the photograph as Benjaminian allegories.