Saba and the beginning of epigraphic documentation of the Jawf

The epigraphical documentation of Nashshān gives us some interesting data about the linguistic and cultural relationships between Saba and the other kingdoms at the beginning of South Arabian history.     

The earliest cylinder seal in the Arabian Peninsula

A cylinder seal of Late Uruk (late fourth millennium BC) type from Abu Dhabi is presented and analysed. Comparisons with excavated finds from elsewhere in the Near East are discussed. An inventory of cylinder seals from sites in the UAE and the Sultanate of Oman shows that cylinder seal use, while not unknown in the region, was never very great. The ways in which the seal may have arrived at its eventual place of discovery are described and the significance of the seal is assessed.     

The earliest cylinder seal in the Arabian Peninsula

A cylinder seal of Late Uruk (late fourth millennium BC) type from Abu Dhabi is presented and analysed. Comparisons with excavated finds from elsewhere in the Near East are discussed. An inventory of cylinder seals from sites in the UAE and the Sultanate of Oman shows that cylinder seal use, while not unknown in the region, was never very great. The ways in which the seal may have arrived at its eventual place of discovery are described and the significance of the seal is assessed.     

七郎山墓地再认识

2004年出版的<内蒙古地区鲜卑墓葬的发现与研究>一书,发表了几处很有价值的鲜卑墓葬,其中就包括了位于内蒙古乌兰察布市察右中旗的七郎山墓地.该墓地共发掘了20座墓葬,这处墓地在墓葬形制和葬式等方面的特殊性,引起了笔者的注意,其实发掘者也意识到该墓地的特殊性,认为其中墓葬形制、葬式等方面的习俗应源自于西部,墓地的主人们与西北部族或方族之间在考古学文化上存在亲缘关系;但最终对墓地的定性是.     

A reconsideration of the date of the Kanam jaw

In March 1932, during Dr L. S. B. Leakey's expedition to the southern shore of the Kavirondo Gulf of Victoria Nyanza, part of a fossil human mandible was discovered by Juma Gitau in an erosion gully in the early Pleistocene Kanam Beds at Kanam West. Since the Kanam jaw showed a well-defined chin, generally regarded as signifying Homo sapiens, it was for long placed in a “suspense account” and repeatedly doubts have been expressed as to whether it really did come out of the Kanam Beds.The composition of the jaw was tested at a number of points, both the bone (corpus mandibulae) and the dentine of the teeth and comparison made with analyses of mammal bones and teeth from the Kanam Beds at Kanam West. For convenience the results may be summarized as follows.     

The earliest fractured tetrapod bone

A tetrapod radius from the Early Carboniferous Ducabrook Formation of the Drummond Basin, Queensland, is described. Early tetrapod radii are scarce in the fossil record but comparison with those available suggests that the new specimen is morphologically primitive. An unusual swelling of the proximal extensor surface is shown, by X-ray, to be a comminuted fracture, the earliest bone fracture recorded among tetrapods.     

The earliest account of triangulation

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The rise and ruin of a medieval port town: A reconsideration of the development of Julfar

Julfar was a major port town of the Persian Gulf during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. A possession of the Hormuzi empire, it was a lucrative source of taxes and pearls, and a port of trade for northern Oman, tapping into maritime trading networks connecting the Middle East with Africa, India, Southeast Asia and China. The site is found north of modern Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE. Julfar Al-Nudud was previously considered to be a late suburb of an urban core, Julfar Al-Mataf, and is located on a creek opposite the latter. However, excavations in 2010 indicated that Al-Nudud was part of the original urban core, which had grown up on either side of the creek. Moreover, re-examination of previous work in Al-Mataf, where a large mosque and fortification were excavated (by British and French teams), shows that the two areas followed different trajectories. Significant occupation in Al-Nudud and southern Al-Mataf (revealed by previous Japanese excavations) ended before the start of the sixteenth century, while use of the mosque and fort in central Al-Mataf continued into the seventeenth century, albeit discontinuously. A revised concordance of the phases derived from the work of various archaeological teams is therefore proposed.     

关于中国传统社会土地权属的再思考——以土地交易过程中的“乡规”、“乡例”为中心

本文从中国传统社会土地交易过程中存在的"乡规"、"乡例",探讨了中国传统社会的土地权属,揭示了中国传统社会土地所有权属的多重性,以及反映中国社会历史实情的土地所有权属的认证与土地所有权属转移的确定.     

李大钊哲学思想发展再探

我在<哲学研究>1981年第6期发表了<李大钊哲学思想发展初探>一文.本文对该文在李大钊哲学思想发展的三个阶段的划分和其哲学思想的评述上,予以实事求是的肯定,同时指出,它对三个阶段时限的划分及某些哲学观点的认知和评述不够准确、妥帖,进而对李大钊哲学思想发展的三个阶段的时限作了新划分,并对某些哲学政治观点的不妥之处作了修正,进行了新的述评.     

The earliest evidence of domesticated wheat in the Crimea at Chalcolithic Ardych-Burun

Abstract

This paper reports the discovery of the earliest evidence of domesticated wheat in the Crimean peninsula from the Ardych-Burun shell midden site, Ukraine. The Ardych-Burun site dates to middle of the 4th millennium cal b.c. For the first time, the chronology of a Ukrainian Chalcolithic period site has been established through direct radiocarbon dating of cereal grains retrieved from it. This discovery allows for a wider discussion of the chronology and geographical origins of domesticated plant species in Ukraine and the role the Caucasian corridor may have played in the spread of agriculture into eastern Europe. The presence of cereal crops in the southern Crimea enriches our understanding of the subsistence strategies of the coastal population, which was previously linked only with pastoralism, hunting, and the exploitation of marine resources.