人面鸟喙雕像意义的探索

江西新干大洋洲晚商大墓和湖北荆州天星观战国中期二号墓各自出土了一件人面鸟喙雕像,根据<山海经>及民族学等方面的有关证据,笔者认为他们是苗民的祖先神<馬,雚>头(亦写作"兜").     

编修年鉴要严把三关

文章结合《张家港年鉴》创品牌的实践指出,为使征稿全面要做到：稳定一支资料员队伍,完善一套征稿细则,规范一套完整的供稿体系。在体现特色方面要做到：围绕全市工作重点、工作成绩,抓出重点调整结构,抓住亮点调整条目;精心编纂特载特辑、大事记。同时,为提高编校质量,要做好“印前捉差错”的工作。     

寿山石的盛宴

“金石永寿——中国第一届寿山石篆刻艺术展览”相继在北京中华世纪坛、国家大剧院展出后降下帷幕。邀笔者参与并见证了这次规模宏大、别出新意的展览,感受良多,略记一二。作为“雕虫小技”的篆刻单项展,主办方历来为展出模式的单调乏味而困惑。近年来虽时有放大展出、实物展出等试图变革的例子,但均属小打小闹而未成规模,占主流的仍是在印屏上打点、翻花样、最终还是承袭老套,     

耀州窑宫廷瓷赏析

耀州窑是我国的历史名窑,耀瓷不仅在民间有广阔的市场,也曾被当时宫廷、官府看中,令其作为“贡品”上贡朝廷作御用器。宋代王存《元丰九域志》有耀州华原郡上贡瓷器五十事的记载。《宋史·地理志》陕西条载：“耀州……宗宁户一十万二千六百六十七……贡瓷器”,前后约有数十年上贡历史。在耀州窑遗址发现的五代时期的“官”字款标本、宋代的龙风纹残片以及有些器底刻划“龙”字标记的器物,     

弦轮密运 清宫钟表

2009年12月25日,沈阳故宫博物院和广州博物馆在广州越秀山镇海楼联合举办弦轮密运——沈阳故宫博物院院藏清宫钟表展,共展出沈阳故宫博物院、广州博物馆藏清宫钟表30余座。这些机械钟表多于18-19世纪时,通过广州粤海关采购和广州钟表工匠制作,以贡品形式入贡清宫的产品,其中部分作品还出自声名显赫的钟表大师之手。     

歌舞升平 丝绸之路上的乐舞文物

中华民族有着古老的乐舞文化,具有独特的东方神韵。中国历史悠久,幅员辽阔,乐舞文化极为丰富,异彩纷呈,美不胜收。我们不难发现,不同时期的中华乐舞都或多或少地带有世界其他地域的歌舞元素,又显得那么自然融洽,这正是中华乐舞经各族乐舞相互交流融合的结果。     

刍议文物数据资源建设及发展的若干问题

在全球信息化的大潮下,文物数据资源建设正如火如荼地进行中,其中也面临如何将文物数据标准化后的整合利用和知识产权保护等问题,以及在未来发展道路上会出现何种趋势,作者就此提出自己一些浅薄的见解。     

First fossil thaneroclerid beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Thanerocleridae)

Cai, C. & Huang, D., January 2018. First fossil thaneroclerid beetle in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Thanerocleridae). Alcheringa 42, 115–119. ISSN 0311-5518.

Thanerocleridae is a small family of Cleroidea with no fossil representatives to date. Here we describe and figure the first fossil representative of Thanerocleridae, Cretozenodosus fossilis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretozenodosus is referred to the extant subfamily Zenodosinae as evidenced by its open procoxal cavities and transverse procoxae. Cretozenodosus has close affinities with the North American Zenodosus Wolcott, suggesting that modern Zenodosinae is probably a relict group. Our discovery of a new thaneroclerid genus from Burmese amber suggests that Thanerocleridae originated no later than the mid-Cretaceous.

Chenyang Cai [cycai@nigpas.ac.cn] Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; Diying Huang [dyhuang@nigpas.ac.cn] State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China.     

A new fossil sinoalid species from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea)

Fu, Y., Cai, C. & Huang, D., October 2017. A new fossil sinoalid species from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Alcheringa 42, 94–100. ISSN 0311-5518.

A new fossil species, Luanpingia daohugouensis sp. nov., belonging to the family Sinoalidae is described from the Middle to Upper Jurassic Daohugou beds of Inner Mongolia, China, on the basis of two well-preserved complete specimens. The described species of Sinoalidae are reviewed and Jiania gracila is considered a junior synonym of Jiania crebra. The new discovery increases the palaeodiversity of sinoalids from the Daohugou beds. It also indicates stratigraphic correlation between the Daohugou beds, the Haifanggou Formation at Haifeng, Beipiao City, West Liaoning Province, and the Jiulongshan Formation at Zhouyingzi, Luanping County, Hebei Province. All of these units host the ‘early assemblage’ of the Yanliao biota.

Yanzhe Fu [yzfu41@163.com], Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China; Chenyang Cai [cycai@nigpas.ac.cn], Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; Diying Huang* [dyhuang@nigpas.ac.cn], State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China.     

Changing intergenerational contracts: gender,cohorts and elder care in central rural China, 2005–2013

In the absence of stable pension systems, elder care arrangements in rural China depend on intergenerational contracts. The existing scholarship on elder care in rural China tends to treat the elderly as a homogeneous group and depict them mainly as ‘care recipients’. Based on a diachronic qualitative study in central rural China between 2005 and 2013, this research examines the changing intergenerational contracts between two cohorts of rural elderly and their adult children. These cohorts hold different positions in terms of family structure, number and sex composition of adult children, living arrangement, physical situation, economic standing and appreciation of intergenerational exchange. These differences further produce different social exchange patterns and disparate elder care modalities between genders and cohorts. Drawing upon insights from gender theory on social gerontology, this research identifies the ‘agency’ of older rural women and explores ageing issues among older rural men. This study also presents policy implications by identifying the most disadvantaged group in terms of elder care support.