How old are Australia's pictographs? A review of rock art dating

Australia contains some of the world's richest and apparently longest traditions of rock pictographs. Dating this art, however, has been problematic, with few ‘direct’ and reliable dates of Pleistocene or early Holocene age having been obtained from visible, representational imagery. This paper critically reviews the evidence for the antiquity of pigment rock art in Australia by examining the various dating techniques employed. The accurate and reliable dating of rock art worldwide is crucial to understanding the evolution of modern human symbolism and whether cognitive modernism came about after, rather than with, the first signs of full biological modernism; understanding the pitfalls and devising proper methods are crucial prerequisites. Towards these ends, this paper reviews the results and techniques that have been employed to date the apparently earliest known pictographs in Australia.     

唐代诗论中“意”的意象内涵与理论探索

＂意＂是唐代诗论中一个非常重要的范畴,其意义非常丰富,＂意象＂是它的一个非常重要的含义。＂意＂、＂象＂、＂物象＂往往相互指涉。唐代诗论家对＂意象＂与诗歌的文体属性、意象的生成过程和心理机制等理论问题及其创造方法进行了深入的探索和研究。     

《抱朴子内篇》词语小札

《抱朴子内篇》是东晋葛洪所著的一部重要道教典籍,保留了较多的魏晋口语成份;对其中的词语用法进行讨论,有助于汉语词汇史研究和辞书编纂。     

战后日本的新中国研究

本文以战后至1972年9月中日邦交正常化前的日本学术界对于新中国的研究史为研究对象,以日本学术界对新中国政治体制、新中国社会主义经济建设成就、合作社和人民公社、毛泽东思想的研究和考察以及文化大革命的研究为线索,分析了中日邦交正常化前日本学术界对于中国的研究概要。以此,试图分析战后日本学术界的中国观和中国研究的方式、理论。     

The Pleistocene art of Asia

While the Pleistocene art of Europe has been described, discussed, analyzed and explained in thousands of publications, that of Asia has attracted almost no interest at all. This paper is a brief summary of all known Ice Age art of Asia, both rock art and portable art. The current evidence is critically reviewed, region by region, and hundreds of specimens purported to be art are rejected by the author. Those considered to be authentic are often extremely isolated, in both time and space. It is argued that this record can only be explained effectively as having been greatly distorted by several factors. The geographical distribution, for instance, is clearly conditioned by such factors as intensity of research activities and local preservation conditions. Thus the pronounced paucity of available evidence is, at least in part, imposed by taphonomic biases of various types.     

三门峡虢国博物馆形式设计综述

三门峡虢国博物馆在空间、整体造型与色彩、环境辅助设施等方面力求艺术性,在造型和色彩设计上具有象征性,而且在功能设计的各个环节强调其功能性,因此取得了良好的效果。     

《睡虎地秦墓竹简》词语札记十则

《睡虎地秦墓竹简》是出土秦简中的重要文献,对其研究日渐深入。本文运用训诂、文字、音韵等知识,对《睡虎地秦墓竹简》中“筭、、、播、、索、、、、等训,注中的失误,对一些义提出己见。     

从湖北各界人民代表会议看人民民主的成长

各界人民代表会议搭建了社会各界政治参与的平台,生动诠释了人民民主政权建构的理念。代表资格的设定凸显了政权的人民性特征,直接民主与间接民主相结合的代表产生方式彰显了人民民主的特色,既涵盖了社会各界,又充分照顾到各党派、各个社会团体,证实了各革命阶级联合专政的政权特质。借助各界人民代表会议这个平台,各界代表参与国家事务管理,表达民众的意见和要求,行使了人民主权。各界代表政治参与的生动实践丰富了人民民主的意涵,催生了中国特色民主政治的成长。     

A new era and new themes in Italian politics: The case of Padania

Abstract

By calling for the independence of Padania from the rest of Italy, the Lega Nord has recently drawn a great deal of attention to itself. In support of this campaign the Lega has actively introduced mythical and Utopian models onto the Italian political scene, combining a degree of cultural innovation with a certain political adventurism. This article focuses on these elements, beginning with the events of the autumn of 1996 when the Lega organized a ‘grande festa’ along the banks and in the towns of the River Po aimed at marking the birth of the new nation of Padania. The principal events of the festival were dominated by the many performances of the League's founder and leader, Umberto Bossi, whose speeches were full of pseudo‐religious or pseudo‐prophetic elements. Though the festival ended in Venice with a unilateral declaration of independence by the Lega and its followers in the north, it did not lead to any immediate political consequences. Nevertheless, the situation in Padania is marked by a complex mixture of identities. The Lega has not just introduced new methods of political opposition, it has also brought many subjects (local cultures, regionalism, the right to self‐determination) into the Italian political debate. Furthermore, it has used the language of the sacred and of ‘origins’ to create new characters, new calendars and new sacred sites.     

浅谈现代注释术语体系的建立

训诂学,是以解决古书语义的理解问题为基本任务的。在训诂学的发展过程中。注释术语发挥着重要的作用。传统的注释术语是自成体系的。由于语言的时代性特征,现当代的训诂实践不能完全的照搬传统的注释术语。需要建立新的注释术语体系。本文选择王力先生主编的《古代汉语》作为例证,对现代注释术语进行了归类。指出了注释术语使用的现状。希望能对现代注释术语体系的建立有所裨益。     

梁启超《中国之美文及其历史》的整理问题

梁启超的《中国之美文及其历史》属于生前未完之作,死后由人整理出版,但其章节的编排存在问题,本文对其整个卷章结构进行了还原。     

Sources of obsidian artefacts,exchange networks and landscape use in Auca Mahuida (Neuquén,north-western Patagonia)

The results of the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of 59 obsidian samples from 11 archaeological sites in the Auca Mahuida region of north-western Neuquén, Argentina, are present. They indicate that several obsidian sources were used; however, the intensities of their exploitation were variable. Strong differences appear between the Colorado River basin, characterized by a low variability of obsidian groups from northern Neuquén; the Auca volcano, with a low variability of obsidian groups, but from local sources located north and southwards of the study area; and along Bajo del Añelo, which presents a high variability of obsidian groups from several local and non-local sources. The pattern recorded fits different mechanisms of access to the sources and the conveyance of obsidian across the landscape. Two distinct paths of direct access are suggested for obsidian availability along the Colorado River in northern Neuquén and for Portada Covunco obsidian in central Neuquén. Additionally, the presence of obsidian from sources in southern Neuquén province (Cerro Las Planicies-Lago Lolog), located about 350 km from the study area, is suggested. While not yet conclusive, this possibility parsimoniously integrates the available geochemical and spatial information, allowing the existence of either long-distance transport or indirect access by exchange or similar mechanisms to be proposed.     

Symbols, Myth-Making, and Identity: The Red Hand of Ulster in Late Nineteenth-Century Paterson, New Jersey

Symbols are manipulated to express social identity and to reaffirm or create a sense of place. Smoking pipes recovered from late nineteenth-century privies in the Dublin Section of Paterson, New Jersey, bear the symbol of the Red Hand of Ulster. Today, the Red Hand of Ulster is ubiquitous on Unionist murals throughout Northern Ireland symbolizing Northern Irish Protestant identity. Originally, the Red Hand symbolized the dawn of the Irish High King of Ulster. In late-nineteenth-century Paterson, it is argued here, the symbol was embedded in ethnic politics involving the Irish Diaspora and Irish–American identity developed through the Gaelic revival and Irish–American organizations and labor unions.     

哈尔滨阎家岗遗址动物骨骼圈状结构的再研究

一、前言人类发展的历史经过约200多万年漫长而艰难的历程,在距今3.5万年左右进入旧石器时代晚期。此时人类除了在石器制作技术、绘画雕刻和原始宗教意识等领域取得了一系列重要进步之外,已经能够摆脱长期在天然洞穴中生活的束缚而来到平原之上     

Sappho’s “Brothers Poem”: An Interpretation

This article explores the overall meaning of Sappho's “Brothers' Poem” by elucidating its web of interwoven verbal repetitions. “The gods”, Sappho seems to say, “reward those who have moderate wishes, think in longer time frames by trying to exploit all their resources and understand the law of natural alternation, regulated by Zeus, by bringing about an even more spectacular reversal of fortune”.     

追思凡将斋

马衡搜集石刻拓本9000余件,其中以清代与民国年间出土和发现的墓志、碑版、造像和汉、魏石经为主。这些拓本后归故宫博物院为碑帖库的建立奠定了基础。当考古学传入之时,他积极参与考古调查与发掘,他的《中国金石学概论》体现了革新思想。     

中日学术交流与汉语训诂学研究

日本学者在汉语训诂学研究领域取得了许多重要成果,在不少方面甚至超过了中国学者,非常值得我们关注和借鉴。本文结合作者在日本大学中文专业任教三年的体会,从五个方面论述了中日学术交流对汉语训诂学研究的积极作用。