The Archaeology of Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico

The site of Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, is well known for its distinctive architecture and sculpture that came to light in excavations initiated some 70 years ago. Less well known is the extensive corpus of archaeological research conducted over the past several decades, revealing a city that at its height covered an area of c. 16 km² and incorporated a remarkably diverse landscape of hills, plains, alluvial valleys, and marsh. Its dense, urban character is evident in excavations at over 22 localities that uncovered complex arrangements of residential compounds whose nondurable architecture left relatively few surface traces. Evidence of craft production includes lithic and ceramic production loci in specific sectors of the ancient city. Tula possessed a large and densely settled hinterland that apparently encompassed the surrounding region, including most of the Basin of Mexico, and its area of direct influence appears to have extended to the north as far as San Luís Potosí. Tula is believed to have originated as the center of a regional state that consolidated various Coyotlatelco polities and probably remnants of a previous Teotihuacan-controlled settlement system. Its pre-Aztec history exhibits notable continuity in settlement, ceramics, and monumental art and architecture. The nature of the subsequent Aztec occupation supports ethnohistorical and other archaeological evidence that Tula’s ruins were what the Aztecs called Tollan.     

Resistance and the City

The mass demonstrations that took place in 2011 in major cities worldwide, dubbed here Contemporary Metropolitan Protest (CMP), varied in terms of the issues tackled and the political efficacy attained, but featured similarities in style, mobilization patterns and the use of traditional and social media. The similarities explain the tendency among commentators and researchers to treat CMP as a coherent category. The variation, on the other hand, raises questions about conceptual and theoretical idioms used so far in the analysis of CMP. The article begins by scrutinizing “resistance”—an idiom introduced to anthropology in the 1980s to theorize peasant response to metropolitan policies—and its recent emergence in the depiction and analysis of CMP. Highlighting the strengths and limitations of the term, I use the rise and fall of CMP in Tel Aviv in 2011 and 2012 as an example of how the implicit logic of aggression and response, so central to earlier employment of the notion of resistance, can be hijacked by defensive regimes that seek to delegitimize and criminalize critique, thus forcing CMP to decline and implode.     

槐梦南柯《红楼梦序词》

《红楼梦》是宽政六年末（1795年初）传入日本的,而最早的日译诞生在将近100年后的1892年。这一年4月,森槐南在《城南评论》上发表了《红楼梦》第一回楔子部分的译文,题为《红楼梦序词》,署名“槐梦南柯”。这篇译文的产生并非偶然,它是在清朝首届驻日公使馆员们向日本文人学者大力推介《红楼梦》的背景下诞生的,同时也与坪内逍遥否定劝善惩恶的小说写作传统,提倡写实主义的日本近代文坛的变革遥相呼应。本文重点考察这篇译文的翻译背景、徒用底太、翻译风格、翻译目的等问题．     

化学高考简答题解法例谈

培养学生用化学用语准确、简明扼要说明问题的能力,是化学教学中应重视和强化的问题。除应加强基础知识教学外,还应培养学生认真审题、抓住答题的关键和要点、使用准确化学用语表述问题的能力。此外,还要加强此类题解法的指导。     

“七国之乱”后吴、淮南二地政区的调整

“七国之乱”后,汉景帝对吴、淮南两地政区进行了一次全面的调整。在吴地,徙汝南王为江都王,辖东阳郡及原鄣郡的北部数县,将原鄣郡的其余地区和会稽郡合并为新的会稽郡。在淮南地区,徙庐江王为衡山王,割其东南部置为新的庐江郡,将原来江南的庐江、豫章二郡合并为新的豫章郡。这次政区调整既是中央集权政策的重要内容,也是对东南地域政治地理格局的重构。     

论河南秦墓

河南地区是受秦文化影响较深的地区之一,目前河南地区发现的秦墓在年代上持续时间较长,且与秦的历史发展密切相关。因此文章将河南地区的秦墓分为四个阶段进行分析,就每个阶段的墓葬形制、随葬器物、文化因素等方面进探讨,并与关中、湖南、湖北和山西等周边地区秦墓进行比较,归纳出不同地区秦墓特点及与河南秦墓异同,最后就秦文化对河南汉墓的影响做简单论述。     

城市绿地服务功能的居民认知度研究

城市绿地作为城市中公共场所和自然元素,担当着多种功能。而居民对城市绿地各种服务功能的认知度受到自身主观因素和所处绿地环境因素的影响。本文通过问卷对南京市居民绿地服务功能认知进行调查,从居民绿地服务功能重要性认知、服务功能感知两方面分析居民认知度及其影响因素。结果表明:居民对各服务功能的感知程度与其重要性认知结果大体一致,对绿地的生态环境功能感知度低于其主观重要性认知水平;居民自身主观因素中的年龄和文化程度、所处绿地数量和植物种类对居民的感知程度和重要性认知有显著影响。     

传承性视角下乡村聚落历史时空格局特征及演化研究——以广东省连州市为例

在采用地名志及相关史料的基础上,通过从时间和空间两个角度,解读连州市乡村聚落格局演化及形成原因。研究结果表明:连州早在西汉元鼎六年即已设立,后随南北交通线和区域开发进程演变,在时间上,可划分为六个发展阶段,以明清时期增长最快。在空间分布上,连州市乡村聚落具备空间传承性,连州镇是连州市乡村聚落增长的核心,各时期乡村聚落密度最大的乡镇均位于市域的中西部和东北部地区,聚落密度较小者集中于北部少数民族聚居区与东部高山区。在此基础上,从自然地理条件、移民、交通、经济发展、民族构成等五个方面对连州市乡村聚落建立和发展的影响进行了探讨。