Original DocumentsRalph Lord Cromwell

The excavation of four ploughed-out round barrows in Milton Keynes has produced evidence of relevance to barrow design, ceramic chronology, economy, settlement patterns and population in the second millennium B.C.

The chronological usefulness of Longworth's Collared Urn Classification is considered and a long survival of All-Over-Cord Beaker tradition in southern Britain is suggested. Three of the sites produced a mixed flint assemblage ranging in date from Mesolithic to Bronze Age. A local pastoral economy, possibly associated with transhumance, is indicated at two sites. It is suggested that barrow distribution coincided with settlement distribution. An estimate is made of the proportion of the population who received barrow burial and a formula is derived for computing the size of local Bronze Age populations.     

中国人"上帝"观念的演变

老天爷,又名“天”、“上帝”、“太一”、“昊天大帝”、“皇天大帝”、“玉皇大帝”等,是中国土权威最高的神。自古及今,中国神祗众多,但是,能有老天爷那样影响时间之长、影响范围之广、影响人口之多鲜为人见,因此,对老天爷这尊民间大神进行深入的研究,对我国宗教学及民俗学等都有一定的理论意义。     

豳公盨与益启传说的再认识

豳公盨铭文的再读,对弄清迄今争讼不绝的启益关系的悬案的来源有很大帮助。现存的战国以后文献的分析与豳公盨铭文的佐证指向“启干益位”说;“益干启位”说有可能是源于西周中期以后,人们对豳公盨“益奸懿德”一句的误读;“益启揖让”是孟子对上古时代禅让故事的深化。