Catalogue of the Emblems of Saints

This report describes the excavations of a 4ha multi-period site situated in the parish of Heslerton, North Yorkshire, on the southern edge of the Vale of Pickering. The site came to light in 1977 and a rescue excavation project, sponsored by the Department of the Environment through North Yorkshire County Council, continued on a seasonal basis from 1978 until December 1982.

Occupation at the site began during the late Mesolithic with a flint knapping area, which was also used during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age. During the Late Neolithic a series of shallow gullies may represent the first attempts to establish a field system, and domestic activity may be indicated by two pairs of refuse pits. Other pits of this period demonstrate the presence of an ill-defined avenue of very large post pits running across part of the site. During the early Bronze Age two barrow cemeteries were present. The excavation of Barrow Cemetery 1, besides providing an important series of stratified carbon 14 dates, has produced an important series of Beakers and Food Vessels.

After the barrow cemeteries went out of use, woodland regenerated in the area prior to the late Bronze and early Iron age when the central part of the site became the setting for extensive occupation dispersed along the line of a major boundary which, once established, continued to function, though on a lessening scale through the Roman period when much of the site was turned over to agriculture. During the early Anglo-Saxon period a cemetery was established, focused upon Barrow Cemetery 2, which must have contained well over two hundred individuals, and is associated with a nearby settlement. During the later medieval and post-medieval periods the site continued in use as part of the agricultural landscape. A gradual accumulation of blown sands, associated with periods of denudation, prevented plough damage from disturbing the deposits over much of the area examined.     

试论商周青铜器族徽文字不同于一般铭文的特点

与商周青铜器一般铭文相比,族徽文字具有象形性和标识性较强、美化装饰色彩明显、书法色彩浓厚、词位和句法不固定、章法布局不合文字排列常规等特点。深入了解这些特点,对于族徽文字的正确隶定、考释及其性质认识,具有较为重要的意义。     

抗战时期贵州“每周文艺”社抗战文艺活动考释

黔籍作家、翻译家谢六逸与蹇先艾、张梦麟等人于1938年在贵阳成立了“每周文艺社”,并创办了《每周文艺》副刊,在抗战时期集结了多位回迁贵州的黔籍作家,密切配合抗战宣传、针砭时事,一时成为贵州宣传抗战的重要阵地之一.只存在一年、只发行了十一期的《每周文艺》在宣传抗战的同时,用心办刊,对于提携后辈、提倡和净化大后方的文艺空气也起到了重要作用.     

革命根据地新富农问题研究

在抗日根据地和解放区,中共领导下的人民民主政权,实施新民主主义经济政策,农村中的封建土地制度被消灭或削弱,农民个体经济得到发展,一部分原来的中农甚至贫雇农在抗日民主政权的扶助下,辛勤劳动。努力经营,上升为新富农。这是新民主主义社会中的一种新的经济形式。它的出现和发展,对于打消动摇封建土地所有制后农民发展生产的顾虑,鼓励他们劳动发家,对于克服根据地由于战乱和敌伪封锁造成的经济困难,起了积极的作用。在抗日战争时期,中共对新富农经济采取鼓励其发展的政策。在解放战争时期进行土地改革的过程中,对新富农的政策一度发生动摇,但很快得到纠正。     

西夏使臣群体小考

出使官员在西夏政治与外交中发挥了重要作用。西夏对外出使情况可概括为两个阶段:西夏政权建立初期,出使官员主要为入仕定难军政权进而后仕西夏的汉人官员;元昊以后,包括汉人官员在内的汉姓官员逐渐成为使臣主体并在出使活动中发挥诸多作用。使臣从汉人官员渐变为汉姓官员,出使官员所任官职、所担使命及其族属成分为我们研究西夏与周边政权的关系提供了鲜活多样的例证。