泰山北斗 一代宗师——林志纯和中国世界古代史学科的建设与发展

2007年11月14日,史学大师林志纯先生在福州与世长辞,享年97岁。 林先生学究天人,贯通古今中外,是中国世界古代史学界的元老和泰斗,为建设中国世界古代史学科,创建中国世界古代史研究会和东北师范大学世界古典文明史研究所建立了卓著的功勋,获得了全国世界古代史学界同仁的尊敬和爱戴。在此,谨代表中国世界古代中世纪史研究会向林先生表示崇高的敬意和深切的怀念。     

Mark as a Roman Document from the Year 69: Testing Martin Hengel's Thesis

This paper explores Martin Hengel's thesis that the Gospel of Mark was written in Rome in the year 69. Hengel was convinced that more should be made of the Year of Four Emperors, a period of civic chaos and warfare that ensued on the death of Nero. The paper analyses the role of the emperor as a potent force in the religious, civic, political, and military unity that is Rome and her gods; the all-pervasive Jerusalem Temple; and Josephus's return to Rome in 71 and the publication of The Jewish War. The paper shows that these themes overlap with this Gospel and are at least consistently supportive of the claim that Rome is the place of composition. The paper refers positively to a recent publication by Brian Incigneri that stresses the critical role of the Triumph of Vespasian and Titus in 71 as the catalytic event for Mark.     

Artificial cranial deformation in South America: a geometric morphometrics approximation

The bioarchaeological record of South America is characterized by the high frequency of individuals with a variety of cranial deformations concentrated in three areas (North-West, Central-West and South) of this subcontinent. The general purpose of this paper is to study the variation in artificial cranial deformation in several regions of Central-West and South of South America. Cranial variation related to artificial deformation of human cranial remains is analyzed by means of geometric morphometrics and multivariate statistic methods. The results of this work show that there are no large differences in variation among states, chiefdoms and bands of hunter-gatherers. The pattern of variation observed in cranial deformation among regions can be interpreted principally according to the chronological and spatial distribution of the cranial samples analyzed.