San Juan,the Fragile City: Finance Capital,Class, and the Making of Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis

This paper narrates Puerto Rico's fiscal and financial crisis through a reading of San Juan's urban landscape. We underscore the role of capital in the city, primarily embodied by the local capitalist class (the Criollo bloc) and foreign capitalists. Historically excluded from the manufacturing sector (dominated by US capitalists), the Criollo bloc accumulates its wealth by concentrating financial assets in the city. In times of crisis, the Criollo bloc resorts to the acquisition of new assets and asset exchange with foreign capitalists to remain solvent and provide short‐term solutions to the state's fiscal and financial limits. The survival of the local capitalist class, we demonstrate, is dependent on asset stripping. Drawing on Clyde Woods, we document how asset stripping unevenly redistributes wealth and risks along class and racial lines within a colonial economy. The finance capital/asset stripping basis of San Juan's economy renders it an extremely fragile city, we contend.     

河北黄骅发现的两处古墓葬

2015和2018年,河北省文物研究所和黄骅市博物馆分别对河北省黄骅市郑家口村和齐家务镇发现的古墓葬进行了抢救性发掘。郑家口墓葬为两座南北排列的唐代墓葬,齐家务墓葬为三座东汉晚期至隋唐时期的砖室墓。两处墓葬虽遭不同程度破坏,却是黄骅地区为数不多的进行过科学考古发掘的汉唐墓葬,多样的墓葬形制和一定数量的随葬品,丰富了该地区汉唐墓葬的基础资料,对研究该地区汉唐时期社会生活、丧葬习俗等具有重要意义。     

沈阳市老城区大舞台工地文物勘探报告

老城区大舞台工地的文物勘探,揭示了人们在此地定居生活的起始时间。辽代炭化谷物遗存的发现,证明该区域是辽代沈州城内的一处重要的仓储地。清末记事碑的出土,不仅反映出该地是盛京故宫外围有争占价值的地块,亦从它沉于地下之深体现了近百年来沈阳城市发展速度的迅猛。     

河南洛阳市吉利区两座北魏墓的发掘

1987年,在洛阳市吉利区发掘了北魏时期的吕达、吕仁父子墓。墓葬的分布位置符合当时的埋葬制度,两座墓出土的随葬品处于北魏迁都洛阳后的转变期,形成前、后期不同风格的组合。吕达墓所出嵌蓝宝石金戒指及胡俑等,是北魏迁洛以后以洛阳为中心的东西文化交流和丝绸之路商贸活动的见证。     

Adaptation and foraging from the Terminal Pleistocene to the Early Holocene: Excavation at Bubog on Ilin Island,Philippines

Abstract

The recently discovered human remains from Callao Cave, northern Luzon, Philippines securely date the migration of hominins into the Philippines to ca. 70 kya (thousands of years ago). The direct route to reach Luzon from the Asian mainland is via Borneo, Palawan, through Mindoro and into Luzon. Our research focuses on Mindoro Island as a potential stepping stone to the main Philippine Archipelago. While Palawan and Luzon have produced evidence for early human occupation, no systematic research on the prehistory of Mindoro has been conducted until now. We report on recent archaeological investigations at the Bubog rockshelter sites on the small island of Ilin just off the coast of Mindoro. The excavations produced evidence of stratified sequences of human habitation at the two rockshelter sites in the form of dense shell middens that date to ca. 11 kya onwards. They provide direct evidence on how variability in landscape formation, sea levels, and landmass during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene influenced the behavior of early human populations. Numerous species of molluscs were recorded and provisional results indicate variations in the invertebrate faunas throughout the stratigraphic sequences, resulting from sea level rise and the establishment of coral reefs between Ilin and Mindoro at the end of the Pleistocene. Our results contribute substantially to our understanding of the processes of human island adaptation, complement ongoing research into Island Southeast Asia’s paleogeography, and enhance current knowledge of prehistoric subsistence strategies across the region.     

Second Laws,Two Cultures,and the Emergence of an Ecosystem Aesthetics

Abstract

The appropriation of scientific concepts by the humanities and the visual arts exemplifies what many feel are both the pitfalls and possibilities of interdisciplinary engagement. The principle of entropy, which C. P. Snow claimed could serve as a litmus test of the ‘two cultures’ divide, provides an excellent starting point for exploring how artists have employed scientific concepts far beyond their original contexts. As a case study in interdisciplinarity, the use of entropy in the visual arts is also a lens to consider the evolution of an artistic proposal from the 1960s known as ‘system aesthetics’. As an early challenge to the clean demarcation of art and science, system aesthetics was a precedent for what might be described as the emergence of an ecosystem aesthetics within contemporary art and design today.     

Environmental Narratives on Protection and Production: Nature‐based Conflicts in R7iacute;o San Juan,Nicaragua

This article focuses on local processes and global forces in the struggle over the fate of forests and over the contested claims of protection and production in a protected area buffer zone of Río San Juan, Nicaragua. The struggle over control of local natural resources is seen as a multifaceted process of development and power involving diverse social actors, from agrarian politicians and development agents to a heterogeneous group of local settlers, absentee cattle raisers, timber dealers, transnational corporations, and non‐governmental organizations. The initial interest is in the local resource‐related discourses and actions; the analysis then broadens to include the larger political‐economic processes and environment‐development discourses that affect the local systems of production and systems of signification. The article underlines environmental resource conflicts as one of the major challenges in subjecting structures of social power to critical analysis.     

河南登封唐庄宋代壁画墓发掘简报

2010年11月,郑州市文物考古研究院与登封市文物勘探队在河南省登封市唐庄乡西北约1公里处发掘了两座宋代壁画墓。这两座墓均为仿木结构砖室墓,其中M2的壁画保存较好,M3的砖制浮雕较细致。根据墓葬形制、壁画内容等判断,M2的年代为北宋晚期早中段,M3的年代为北宋晚期早段。这两座墓为研究北宋时期的服饰、家具、丧葬习俗及绘画艺术等提供了珍贵的实物资料。     

安徽泗县刘圩汴河故道遗址发掘简报

2011年3～4月,安徽省文物考古研究所对安徽泗县刘圩遗址进行了抢救性发掘,揭示一批汉至唐宋遗迹。其中,唐宋汴河北堤的发现,在隋唐大运河泗县段尚属首次;宋代踩踏面及相关遗迹的发现反映了汴河漕运的繁华;北宋末至南宋初土坑墓的发现印证了相关文献记载的汴河废弃时代。     

邯郸百家村两座战国墓

2008年4月～10月,为配合邯郸市人民路西延工程,河北省文物研究所对工程涉及的百家村村西发现的2座战国墓葬进行了发掘,获得一批较为重要的考古资料,为进一步研究赵国的墓葬结构、丧葬特点、等级制度及经济文化发展状况提供了实物资料。     

高精度磁法在陕西岐山考古中的应用

本文分析了高精度磁法对地下历史遗存进行无损考古探测的基本原理,介绍了高精度磁法在陕西省岐山县周原遗址考古中的应用和取得的重要考古发现,揭示了高精度磁法应用于考古具有很强的可操作性、优越性和广阔的前景。