Keeping an eye on your pots: the provenance of Neolithic ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops,Youra, Greece

Combined petrographic and chemical analysis of MN and LN ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra, Greece, has revealed a compositionally diverse assemblage with a range of different local and off-island sources. Ceramics deposited in Neolithic times on this barren, rocky outpost of the Sporades chain may have originated from a surprising number of possible origins, including from the Plain of Thessaly, Euboea and the volcanic northeast Aegean islands. This picture challenges traditional assumptions about Neolithic pottery production and indicates that significant movement of ceramics was already taking place within the northern Aegean as early as the beginning of the sixth millennium BC. The discovery of a persistent local pottery tradition, that is also found on the neighbouring island of Kyra-Panagia, indicates significant continuity in ceramic technology over some 1500 years.     

1960年以来中国古文字学的发展(下)——钱存训著《书于竹帛》英文本第二版后序

三、石刻、玉文、及陶文 在早期,石、玉、陶器是文字记载最普通也是最耐久的媒体.石刻最早的例子是秦石鼓,大概是春秋晚期或战国早期的产品,后来就成为传载永久文件最相宜的媒体,如墓志以及儒、释、道家的经典①.正如钱教授在此书中所解释,纸的最早的用途之一就是拓印石碑或其他石刻.有文字的石刻记录与有铭文的青铜器记录是同样的散漫.据说现在存有10万块刻石,但仅有3万件拓片问世,最近有几部拓片合集和索引出版②.     

VEGETATION AND RIVER CHANNEL DYNAMICS

The physical science of fluvial geomorphology is flawed because it ignores processes that are not easily quantifiable and physically or statistically manipulable. The influence of vegetation on river behaviour and fluvial geomorphology is a set of these processes. Vegetation may exert significant control over fluvial processes and morphology through five mechanisms: flow resistance, bank strength, bar sedimentation, formation of log-jams, and concave-bank bench deposition. Examples of these mechanisms, largely drawn from the Squamish River in British Columbia, are presented, and implications for future research are briefly discussed.
La science physique de la géomorphologie fluviale manque de précision du fait qu'elle ne tient pas compte des processus qui ne sont pas facilement quantifiables et matériellement ou statistiquement traitables. L'influence de la végétation sur le régime des rivières et la géomorphologie fluviale constitue un ensemble de tels processus. La végétation peut exercer un contrôle significatif des phénoménes fluviaux et de la morphologie fluviale à partir de cinq mécanismes de base: la résistance au courant, la solidité des rives, les couches de sédimentation, la formation de barrages de détritus végétaux, et les dépôts sur les parties concaves des rives. Des exemples de ces mécanismes à partir de l'étude de la rivière Squamish en Colombie brittanique sont ici présentéd, et les implications en ce qui concerne la recherche future sont discutées.     

LIVING WITH THE LONG CYCLE TODAY

There is a need for a new rationale to guide American security policy, including arms control and disarmament. In light of fundamental changes in the external and internal environment, American security policy would appear to have to rest on the following four assumptions: (1) the multiplication of threats, allies, and adversaries; (2) the disparity between greater absolute military power at the disposal of the United States and greater relative impotence in wielding it to influence events abroad; (3) the globalization yet divisibility of American and international security, economic, and political regime interests; and (4) the persistence of divided domestic consensus as the shaky basis from which to project American military power to shape the international environment in ways congenial to often conflicting American preferences.