湖北襄阳楚王城西周城址调查简报

楚王城遗址是襄阳市域一处重要的西周遗址,2005年确认为西周城址。2011年复查后,对城址布局、城垣结构、城内文化层堆积和整体文化内涵有了较为明确的认识,并发现了附属的许家河遗址。本文认为,该城或许就是西周晚期楚熊渠征伐和封王之鄂王城。     

试论随州金鸡岭遗址新石器时代窑址群

金鸡岭遗址窑址群是目前长江中游发现的屈家岭文化时期数量最多、形制最丰富、分布最为集中的窑址群。陶窑从形态特征看有圆形窑、长条形分室窑、长方形馒头窑三种类型,其中长条形分室窑似龙窑结构在长江流域是首次发现,为我国早期龙窑的起源提供了极为重要的研究资料。窑址附近发现的非正常死亡的人骨架可能与窑址奠基或祭祀仪式有关。该窑址群时代为屈家岭文化时期。     

内蒙古科左中旗哈民忙哈新石器时代遗址2011年的发掘

对哈民忙哈遗址进行的第二次发掘共清理出房址29座、灰坑10座、墓葬3座以及环壕1条,出土陶器、石器、骨角蚌器、玉器等1000余件。此次发掘,发现了房屋木质结构痕迹,这是我国第一次发现并清理出史前时期的房顶梁架结构。房址内发现众多的人骨遗骸也是史前时期考古中所罕见。     

成都市郫县三观村遗址发掘简报

三观村遗址是一处以宝墩文化和十二桥文化遗存为主的遗址。宝墩文化遗存有灰坑、灰沟、墓葬、房址、卵石堆等,出土了花边口沿罐、高领罐、尊等大量陶器以及少量石器,属宝墩文化一期。十二桥文化遗存有灰坑、灰沟、窑址、灶、墓葬等,出土陶器以小平底罐、敛口罐、矮领罐、簋、瓮、尖底杯、尖底盏为主,属十二桥文化一期晚段。     

湖北天门市石家河古城三房湾遗址2011年发掘简报

2011年,湖北省文物考古研究所、北京大学考古文博学院对石家河古城三房湾遗址的东南低洼地带进行了勘探和发掘,证实该处存在城垣堆积,且走向明确。城垣的兴建年代不早于屈家岭文化晚期,至石家河文化晚期已经废弃。此次工作,为全面认识石家河古城的结构以及聚落变迁提供了重要的资料。     

The Capture and Curation of the Cannibal ‘Vendovi’: Reality and Representation of a Pacific Frontier

ABSTRACT

The United States Exploring Expedition into the Pacific launched in 1838 was marked, like the continental expansion westward, by violent encounters with Native peoples. By examining the record of the expedition's kidnapping of the Fijian Ro Veidovi, the fate of his body after death, and the ways his story came to be invoked in the official narrative of the expedition, the popular press, the ‘National Gallery’ and, more recently, the Fijian press, this paper demonstrates how violent contacts on the Pacific frontier were remembered, effaced, and reconceived. The changing story of Ro Veidovi permanently bridged distant locales in an emerging ‘Pacific World’, setting in motion transcultural negotiations that continue to this day.     

Pre-Clovis in Texas? A critical assessment of the “Buttermilk Creek Complex”

Lithic artifacts from the lowest strata of the Debra L. Friedkin site, located on Buttermilk Creek in central Texas, have been interpreted as an undisturbed pre-Clovis assemblage (Waters et al., 2011a). Stone tools and debitage were recovered from sediments stratified just below diagnostic Clovis artifacts and dated by OSL to between 13.2 and >15.5 cal kya. Invoking commonly observed cultural and natural site formation processes, we offer an alternative explanation of the “Buttermilk Creek Complex” as a Clovis assemblage in secondary association with the dated sediments.     

Understanding faunal contexts of a complex Tell: Tel Dor, Israel, as a case study

The complex stratigraphy of the large Levantine tells and the complexity of human behavior that took place on them, poses a major challenge in understanding site formation processes and their reflection in the faunal remains. We studied the contextual deposition of faunal remains in Tel Dor, as a model for complex tell sites, and the possibility of using faunal remains as a tool to distinguish between context types. In addition, we asked how can we use this knowledge to elucidate site formation processes. Our results demonstrate that most loci defined in the field as primary refuse or purposive disposal are indeed different from the loci defined as secondary refuse. Different types of contexts can be differentiated, to a degree, from one another based upon multivariate analysis of faunal remains. Statistical as well as spatial analyses may help elucidate site formation processes and the use of space. Bones can, and in many cases do, reflect primary activities. Lumping zooarchaeological data into a single ‘assemblage’, as done in most zooarchaeological studies today causes major loss of information. Consideration of the specific location of faunal remains can be used as further indication for context identity and for understanding specific activities in a site, with care this can be done even in complex sites such as the ‘urban mounds’ of the Levant.     

Assessing a Computer-aided Instructional Strategy in a World Geography Course

An experiment was conducted to compare student achievement under two differing instructional strategies: a small-group and computer-aided strategy versus lecture instruction. Evaluation was extended in several ways beyond comparison of overall student scores. Results show significant improvements in student achievement produced by the computer-aided strategy with reference to gender, ethnicity and levels of cognitive learning. The study concludes that experimental evaluations of CAI serve best as formative tools to match instructional strategies to specific types of content material and different types of students, and that instructional media are best evaluated along with the instructional method in which they are embedded.     

河南汝州市煤山龙山文化墓葬的发现与认识

煤山遗址位于汝州市北部、北刘庄村西的一处土岗上,东临洗耳河,南面为汝河,面积约20万平方米,20世纪70年代以来已经过四次考古发掘。煤山遗址龙山文化墓葬是洛阳博物馆于1970年首次对该遗址进行考古调查时发现的[1]。由于墓葬已遭破坏,形制不清,墓内出土的随葬品均为小型明器,资料发