江苏徐州睢宁龙头山明墓发掘报告

2013年3月,徐州博物馆和睢宁博物馆对位于江苏省徐州市睢宁县官山镇西北约10公里的龙头山明墓进行了抢救性发掘。该墓为一座仿木结构砖室墓葬,由墓道、门楼、甬道、前室、石门、后室组成。该墓有仿木构的门楼和庭院式的前后室,门楼和墓室有丰富多彩的砖雕和彩绘壁画,石门上有阴刻描金题记"看破四大满腔念头归衣钵"和"万历二十三年四月望日立",为研究明代葬制、葬俗、建筑、绘画、宗教等提供了珍贵的资料。     

河北磁县北宋墓葬壁画保护与修复浅谈

本次修复对象是北宋早期的墓葬壁画,该壁画的出土为弥补邯郸乃至河北宋代早期墓葬壁画实物资料提供了珍贵资料,具有重要的学术研究价值。对该壁画的保护修复,不同于以往揭取或整体提取的方法,该壁画采用切割砖体的方法。该方法能较好保留文物结构上的完整,保护了壁画的安全,也为后期的二次修复提供了可操作空间。     

The Politics of the Pipe: Clay Pipes and Tobacco Consumption in Galway, Ireland

In this paper, clay pipes and the historical record are used to explore the illicit importation of tobacco in seventeenth-century Galway, Ireland. This is part of a wider tradition of the politics of smoking, including the proliferation of the clay pipe, the widespread smuggling of tobacco, and the overtly political nineteenth-century pipes that touted nationalist emblems. Here, the juxtaposition of the archaeological and historical records locates subversive local agency in the face of overarching colonial mandates. Colonialism, trade, consumption, and identity are linked in an examination of a merchant community's maneuvers through the expanding Atlantic economy and the restricted colonial mandates that marked the world around them.     

南阳汉代花纹砖

南阳汉代花纹小砖图案内容丰富,题材广泛,多涉及社会生活、自然山水、动物禽兽和追求光明的理念,多视角地展示了汉代人们的生活意境和审美情趣,具有鲜明的时代特征.     

耀州窑青瓷白色中间层和化妆土的EDXRF光谱分析

为探讨我国北方著名窑场之一的耀州窑唐、五代时期青瓷胎釉化妆土与北宋时期之间白色中间层的区别,利用具有电子探针微区分析功能的能量色散X射线光谱仪测试。结果表明,北宋时期青瓷的中间层和唐、五代的化妆土在化学组成上存在着一些差异。白色中间层中不仅铁的含量比胎釉都低,CaO和K_2O的含量则高于胎,而靠近釉;而化妆土的化学组成除了Fe_2O_3含量较低外,其它化学组成十分接近瓷胎;中间层和化妆土相比,Fe_2O_3的含量更低一些。     

乌尔第三王朝时期的尼普尔银贷业商人档案研究(下):档案重建

古代两河流域文明的银贷业十分发达。本文根据4本汇集了全部出土于宗教中心尼普尔城的乌尔第三王朝时期经济档案文件的原文集,以出土借据中的落款日期和商人的名字为序列,对7个主要商人的文件进行了档案重建,进而为理解古代两河经济领域中货币形式、银贷利率、商人职能等金融和商业规律提供第一手史料。     

陶寺遗址出土泥质陶器的中子活化分析与研究

本文采用中子活化分析技术对陶寺遗址出土的74件泥质陶器样品进行了分析研究,结果显示出土于遗址不同功能区的泥质陶器在原材料的使用或制作工艺上存在差异性,这或许表明了不同阶层的人所使用的泥质陶器也是有差别的,已经有了贫富贵贱之分。     

The Making of Fired Clay Bricks in China Some 5000 Years Ago

Fired bricks are a hard and durable masonry material that has played a major role in the emergence of early human urban civilization. In China, fired clay bricks have been widely used as a building and flooring material since the Qin Dynasty (476?206 bc ), although a few lines of evidence show that fired clay bricks might have been invented as early as 5500 years ago in eastern central China. However, these burnt clumps of clay appear not to be bricks in the strict sense, and our knowledge about the origin of fired clay bricks in China still remains fragmentary. Archaeological excavations at a Middle Neolithic cultural site in northwestern China reveal that the making of fired clay bricks began some 5000 years ago. Our findings also open a window into the process of prehistoric brickmaking in East Asia.     

Pottery firing temperatures: a new method for determining the firing temperature of ceramics and burnt clay

A new method for determining the maximum firing temperature of ceramics and burnt clay is presented. The technique relies on measuring the magnetic susceptibility on a step-wise re-fired sample. The validity of the method has been tested by determining firing temperatures of two sets of clay samples fired at temperatures ranging from 400 to 1000 °C. Aliquots of the same samples have been studied petrographically by optical microscopy on thin sections and analyzed by powder X-ray diffraction in order to monitor structural and mineralogical changes as a function of temperature. The method is demonstrated on samples from four geographically widely different sites and it is applied to a larger set of ceramics of Late (ca. AD 900–AD 1450) and Inca (ca. AD 1480–AD 1532) periods from the Northwestern Argentine region, dating to a limited period of time prior to the fall of the Inca Empire. The method is shown to be a powerful tool in revealing archaeological information about the change in firing technologies in the pre-Hispanic societies in the Andean area through time.     

郑州市北二七路两座砖雕宋墓发掘简报

2007年8月,郑州市文物考古研究院在郑州市北二七路与太康路交叉口的西北角,发掘两座仿木结构的砖雕墓。这两座墓葬形制结构基本相同,均为南北方向的砖砌仿木建筑结构单室墓,墓室为四边形,墓壁有精美的砖雕,年代为北宋早、中期。