The Social and Economic Complexity of Ancient Jerusalem as Seen Through Choices in Lighting Oils

This paper presents and discusses the results of residue analysis conducted on 78 ceramic lamps found in archaeological excavations in ancient Jerusalem, in an attempt to identify the types of oils used and the reasons for their preferential choice. The oil lamps chosen for the study were taken from a variety of contexts, which represent the different periods during which Jerusalem was settled and the different sectors of the city. The results of the study show that even the most mundane activity of lighting using oil held within it social and economic choices, as mirrored in the different excavation areas.     

“二里头商都说”的再检视

2005年以来公布的二里头等遗址的测年数据,对现有的"二里头夏都说"与"郑亳说"构成了挑战。借此契机,有必要反思二里头遗址研究的得失。测年数据以及二里头文化晚期的考古学考察,对于二里头文化三、四期已经进入商代的观点是有利的。二里头遗址是探索夏文化的重要对象,但将其落实到夏都斟鄩尚有疑点。     

城市演进的区位因素探析——以历史文化名城徐州为例

无论是在城市的产生还是发展中,区位及其变化都发挥着十分重要的作用。对于徐州这个"五省通衢"、历史文化名城之地而言,其意义更为突出。本文从剖析影响城市演进的区位因素出发,着重探讨了交通、政治、军事和自然等几种区位变化对徐州城市历史兴衰的具体作用,并根据未来区位变化的主要特点,提出了21世纪初徐州城市发展的基本走向。     

Visible Charity: The Archaeology, Material Culture, and Landscape Design of New York City's Municipal Almshouse Complex, 1736–1797

How did New York City's eighteenth century almshouse (1736–1797) handle homelessness and poverty? Historians have been debating whether the conditions were familial and supportive, or mean-spirited and intolerable. An analysis of the archaeology, artifacts, architecture, landscape design, primary sources, and secondary sources associated with the New York City almshouse complex suggest some answers.     

黄山市乡村旅游初步研究

黄山市是全国重点旅游城市,乡村旅游接待量约占全市旅游接待量的40%。黄山市乡村旅游景点以黄山风景区为依托,交通比较方便,旅游资源优势与黄山风景区互补,景类景型比较单一,参与性旅游项目少,资源所有者以村民和集体所有为主,主要景点资源品位很高但知名度不高,旅游管理水平和服务质量有待提高。必须加强管理,搞好规划,重点开发,突出个性,加大宣传力度,提高服务质量,促进黄山市乡村旅游进一步发展。     

地域传统文化与旅游发展的理性思考——以徽州文化为例

传统文化与现代旅游的关系密切,地方传统文化不仅是一种重要的旅游资源,同时对现代旅游的发展存在极大的促进和制约作用。本文以徽州文化为实证,主要从负面效应上阐述地域传统文化对黄山市这一发展旅游条件优势显著的地区在旅游发展过程中产生的诸多不利影响表现和形成机制,并指出要充分认识徽州传统文化体系中先进性和滞后性,特别是文化深层面上在旅游发展过程中怎样继承、发展、超越传统文化,克服陈旧意识,转变观念,不断创新,营造先进的文化环境,为地方旅游发展培育强劲的文化内动力,实现黄山市"旅游二次创业"的发展目标。     

我国工业旅游发展探析

本文针对目前我国工业旅游的发展现状,在系统分析进一步开发工业旅游资源、促进工业旅游规模化发展的现实意义的基础上,从一个全新的视角--开发利用城市品牌资源出发,研究工业旅游在现实运作中存在的问题与面临的障碍,并对工业旅游资源的合理开发以及工业旅游业的全面发展进行了有益的探讨。     

“The Dirty Scruff”: Relief and the Production of the Unemployed in Depression‐era British Columbia

Abstract: In this article, I examine this nexus between the social and political meaning of unemployment and the political responses that follow. I focus on Depression‐era Vancouver and investigate the broad ideologies, representations and practices that contributed to the derision of the unemployed, which in turn, informed the establishment of rural relief camps that aimed to address the unemployment crisis of the 1930s. The social and political meaning of unemployment shaped the contours of the Federal Unemployment Relief Scheme, which housed men in work camps and aimed to both discipline and rehabilitate the unemployed. However, the relief camps were plagued by several contradictions exploited by the Relief Camp Workers Union, which constructed oppositional understandings of unemployment. In discussing the relationship between unemployment and relief I attend to questions of space, highlighting the urbanisation of unemployment and the ideological distinctions between the city and the country.     

湖北孝感市叶家庙新石器时代城址发掘简报

2008年,湖北省文物考古研究所等单位对叶家庙遗址进行了发掘,这是近年来长江中游史前城址聚落考古的一次重要发现。发现的文化遗存大致分为三期,相当于屈家岭文化早期、屈家岭文化晚期和石家河文化早期。城垣兴建于屈家岭文化晚期。城外墓地的使用时间则从屈家岭文化早期延续至石家河文化早期。     

越南燕行使者的清宫游历与戏曲观赏

本文以越南汉文燕行文献为主要素材,参证相关中国史料,对清代来华的越南使者游历清宫和观赏宫廷戏曲的实况作了扼要的介绍。文章既讨论越南使者笔下的清宫游历与清宫图像,又部分披露了清代乾隆、道光、同治三朝越南使者入清宫听戏的文字实录。文中抉发的越南伶工入宫参与乾隆八十寿辰演出详情,及同治间慈禧、慈安两宫太后一同垂帘听戏的近距离目击实录等,均为中国史料中未见的新发现。