HAUNTING HISTORY: DECONSTRUCTION AND THE SPIRIT OF REVISION1

This essay explores the ways that the specter of deconstruction has been haunting history over the past thirty years, in particular this specter's effects on the revision of intellectual and cultural history. The essay uses the terms “specter” and “haunting” to express the fact that while deconstruction is repeatedly targeted in attacks against the dangers of postmodernism, poststructuralism, or the linguistic turn, very few historians actively use deconstruction as a historical methodology; in this regard the target has always been a phantom. However, some historians have employed the methods of deconstruction, and by examining their work as well as the attacks on it the essay attempts to explain the historiographical reasons behind these attacks. The goal of the essay is ultimately to indicate some of the ways that deconstruction is useful for the historian, as evidenced in the project of historical revision.     

THE OLIVE IN THE PREHISTORIC AEGEAN: THE EVIDENCE FOR DOMESTICATION IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE

Summary. In 1972 Colin Renfrew suggested that the rise of Mycenaean civilization may have been made possible by the development of a polycultural triad of wheat, vine and olive in the Early Bronze Age. A careful examination of the botanical and archaeological evidence for the domestication of the olive lends little support to this aspect of the thesis. The palynological evidence from various points in Greece is inconclusive, but for most areas it would seem to suggest that the intensive cultivation of olive began in the Late Bronze Age or even later.
No conclusive archaeological evidence for processing or storage of olive oil exists for any period in the Bronze Age. The question of when olive domestication took place must remain unanswered until more data are available from Early and Middle Bronze Age contexts and more conclusive botanical data have been collected.     

THE EARLY IRON AGE IN THE PARIS BASIN: A STUDY IN CULTURE CHANGE

Summary. The archaeological evidence for Iron Age cultures in the Paris Basin is outlined. The data are heavily weighted to burials, there being little evidence available of settlements, but regional patterns of variation can be recognized. The broader contacts of the region are discussed and the effects of external trade and internally generated pressures on socio-economic systems are considered.     

EARLY EUBOEAN SETTLEMENTS IN THE CARTHAGE AREA

Summary.   There is growing archaeological evidence that Greeks and Phoenicians cooperated, or at least were not serious rivals in early days of exploration of the western Mediterranean, before the sixth-century trade wars, even to the point of settling side-by-side. The geographical, textual and material evidence for Greek presence close to, and at Carthage in early days is here reviewed.     

THE ROLE OF DAGGERS IN EARLY BRONZE AGE BRITAIN: THE EVIDENCE OF WEAR ANALYSIS

Summary. This paper examines the detailed condition of 55 Early Bronze Age daggers from central southern England. It appears that the more elaborate weapons had remained in circulation for a longer period than other examples.     

REMINISCENCE THE EARLY YEARS OF WORKING IN TIBET

In the late Sixties,a group of enthusiastic youths from Henan(an internal province on the central plain) set out with great enthusiasm to go farming and also guard borders on the Tibet Plateau.I was lucky enough to be one of them.Now,as I recall those long and dusty days in an area largely unknown to the rest of the world,I cannot help about of nostalgia.     

中国早期城址城墙结构研究

一 引 言 早期城是城发展历史的早期或初期阶段,具有一定的原始性和独特性.具体到中国古代来说,早期城址是指史前至夏商时期的城址.城墙又称"城垣",是指围绕在城四周或内外的大型墙体,大多呈闭合状态,或与自然屏障连接成闭合状态,主要功能是军事防御或防洪,也兼有防盗、防野兽侵袭等功用. 城墙结构则是指城墙本体各部分的组成与安排,主要包括城墙形态结构、技术结构、墙基结构等.城墙形态结构可区分为上下形态结构和左右形态结构.上下形态结构或称"纵向结构",是指城墙上下部分的搭配和安排,如城墙是单独的地面墙体,或是由多部分组成;地面墙体与基槽的对应关系如何,如上下一致或是错位.     

早期东西文化交流的三个阶段

<正>目次一引言二铜石并用时代的文化交流三青铜时代的文化交流四早期铁器时代的文化交流五结语一引言如果以陶容器为主要依据,结合其他遗存的空间分布和起源传播,可将丝绸之路前全新世大部时段的亚欧大陆大致划分为三大文化圈,即以中国黄河、长江流域为中心,包括东亚、东南亚及太平洋诸岛屿在内的"早期东方文化圈";以两河流域为中心,包括西亚、北非、中亚南部、南亚和欧洲南部在内的"早期西方文化圈";以及东、西两大文化圈以北的"早期北方文化圈"。本文所谓早期东西文化交流,主要指旧石器时代人类大迁徙之后、汉代"丝绸之路"出现之前早期东、西两大文化圈之间的交流。