Travelling the Route from Designation to Local Action: The Case of the Underground Railroad Settlement in Buxton,Ontario, Canada

Canada’s Buxton Settlement National Historic Site is a striking illustration of the multi‐faceted conservation of a cultural landscape, from federal designation through to local action. Buxton is designated as a ‘continuing landscape’ distinguished by its establishment in 1849 as a 9,000 acre (3,600 ha) ¹ [1] Imperial measures are given first in reference to the historic resource because the measurements are historically significant. terminus for black fugitives travelling north along the so‐called Underground Railroad, escaping the tyranny of slavery in the USA. A social experiment, in the form of a block farming settlement, waited for them at the end of their journeys. Over the intervening years inevitable shifts in agricultural practice and property ownership have transformed this rather ordinary but strongly evocative heritage resource. This is a case common to many other significant cultural landscapes—the management of the inevitable evolution that comes with a landscape that continues. This agricultural landscape confronts many of the challenges that are the focus of heritage studies today: how to give local people a voice while coordinating conservation across multiple scales of government policy.     

Out of this World: Issues of Managing Tourism and Humanity’s Heritage on the Moon

Space tourism has become a reality and is bound to become ever more affordable. It is now time to spend serious thought on how humanity is going to manage the human material culture and heritage sites on the surface of the Moon. After all, the Apollo XI mission is of global human significance inasmuch as it was the first time a human being set foot on another celestial body. Environmental conditions on the Moon are such that what is considered low‐impact visitation on Earth would have devastating consequences for the heritage on the lunar surface. This paper highlights a range of issues, not the least of these being management in an environment without territorial control, neither physically nor legally. The multinational management of Antarctica is proposed as a model for the lunar surface.     

Landscape Archaeology,Heritage and the Community in Devon: An Oral History Approach

In the context of recent media, governmental, academic and popular attention and enthusiasm for debates surrounding the construction and meaning of the British countryside, this paper outlines the potential for oral history to make a contribution. Working in Devon, the authors outline how an oral history methodology can engage with the fields of landscape archaeology and heritage studies. As well as augmenting and supporting more traditional approaches to landscape, oral history techniques can be used to challenge and destabilise existing knowledge, thereby moving the process of ‘democratisation’ in knowledge construction of the rural landscape from practices of scientific ‘complicity’ towards one of critical engagement.     

Toward a Cultural Landscape Atlas: Representing all the Landscape as Cultural

Many government and non‐statutory registers utilise point datasets to represent cultural heritage places. An effect of this approach is to emphasise that cultural heritage comprises a series of spatially discrete material remains or ‘sites’, suggesting discrete locations which are somehow disconnected from their broader historical and landscape contexts. We advocate an alternative in which spatial representation of heritage is set within a cultural landscape framework, acknowledging that all parts of the landscape have inter‐connected cultural histories, associations and meanings resulting from long‐term and ongoing human–environmental interactions. Results from a collaborative cultural heritage research project undertaken at Culgoa National Park in Australia demonstrate the advantage of this approach. The mapping products produced by the work comprise an interactive electronic DVD Atlas and hard copy maps. Both focus on meeting the management needs of field‐based park staff.     

Systematic continuous heritage recording in the field

Abstract

This paper is related to historic buildings and sites which represent a physical cultural environment most tangibly and also represent a majority of all the listed cultural heritage in all countries. The paper is particularly concerned with various techniques of recording information about the built heritage. This is commonly regarded as a one‐off record by field observation, but the author makes a case for recording to be a continuous process. Recording is not simply the first activity in the historic preservation process but an integral part of all phases. Despite the difficulty of defining objectives and evaluating results experience with the built heritage of the Czech Republic suggests that recording should be an on‐going, flexible and integral part of the conservation process. It is best carried out largely by recorders working within the Conservation Office.     

Obituary—The Rev. Robert Mackenzie,M.A.

Abstract

This paper examines how CCTV-assisted bird-watching mediates people's relationship with a particular representation of an animal world. By focusing on people's interpretations and responses to CCTV camera technology at three bird-watching sites around Scotland, it is argued that the use of CCTV technology represents a qualitatively different mode of engaging with birds which has bearing on how this mediated animal world appears in and to people's everyday lives. It is asserted that the spatial relations invoked in the act of looking at birds through a CCTV lens inscribe a conceptual hyper-separation between see-er and seen that serve to normalise a vision of humanity inherently separate from and dominant over the wildlife on screen. As a technologically mediated way of seeing, the paper explores the use of CCTV cameras as inscribing particular ‘ways of being’ that serve to define and limit people's conduct towards the birds on view. By drawing attention to the conservation discourses that support, and are supported by the use of CCTV-assisted bird-watching, it is argued that the notion of ‘keeping an eye on nature’ is embedded in a cultural agenda that assists with the construction of nature as tele-visual commodity.     

计算机技术在考古学与文物保护中的应用

计算机技术与其他学科相结合发展起来的新技术将为考古学研究和文物保护提供现代化的科学手段,对考古学和文物保护将产生深远的影响.网上数字化博物馆的建立,考古资料、文物信息的网络化管理,考古信息的共享将对考古学传统的工作模式产生重要的影响.     

秦俑彩绘保护研究综述

本文介绍了近十年来秦俑彩绘保护方面的研究成果,其中包括了保护技术的研究与优化;彩绘颜料、彩绘调合剂的分析研究;秦俑彩绘图案方面的研究与重构;彩绘保护剂性能的对比等等。提出了今后这方面研究的意见和建议。     

明代上洛县主墓出土彩绘木质文物的保护与研究

2007年6—7月,在位于西安市长安县北里王村村东的上洛县主墓中,出土了一批色彩鲜艳的彩绘木俑。因该墓葬曾遭受早期盗扰,出土时木俑较为凌乱摆放在墓室前厅,原来的摆放位置已被扰乱。出土的彩绘木俑均有不同程度的腐朽,其中部分彩绘木俑保存较完整,部分有残缺;整体彩绘保存相对完整,局部有脱落现象。由于长期遭受墓葬环境的影响,所有的彩绘木俑出土时都处于亚饱水状态,而且机械强度较低,没有彩绘或彩绘脱落部位的木胎外观变黄、变脆。这批木俑的木俑颜色鲜艳、姿态各异,不仅具有较高的艺术价值,而且对研究明代民间的宗教信仰,以及葬丧习俗也颇有裨益。为了保护这批珍贵的文物,通过对比试验研究,采用自然脱水法使其脱水定形。使用3％PrimalAC33的水溶液对其彩绘层进行加固保护。同时,在保护处理的过程中,通过显微观察以及一些科学分析手段,对这批木俑的制作方法、装饰材料及工艺进行了初步的探索与研究。     

太原晋卿赵鞅墓车马坑马骨的保护与修复

春秋晚期的晋卿赵鞅墓车马坑马骨历经2500年的埋藏,有一定程度的腐朽;易地保护的切割,造成严重损伤;多次搬迁,造成箱内切块严重开裂破碎;出土后的长期裸露存放,形成一定程度的表面风化.为解决马骨的破损与风化,以及马骨承托底土的整体性问题,本工作采取的研究与保护措施有:对马骨骨组织结构进行电镜观察和力学性能检测、置换和轻化承托底土、隔绝地面水气、修补切割缝、修复屿骨、作防风化处理.经过两年的艰苦工作,晋卿赵鞅墓车马坑马骨的科技保护与修复完成了既定目标,达到了预期效果.