The agricultural basis of Umm an-Nar society in the northern Oman peninsula (2500–2000 BC)

This paper argues that the agricultural aspect of the Umm an-Nar economy has been largely ignored by researchers, due to an overemphasis on copper production and trade. This is true at the level of the smallest rural settlements, villages and settlements whose primary focus was agricultural production.
The key social developments of this period have often been explained by linking them to the exploitation of copper ore and its trade with surrounding regions such as Mesopotamia and the Indus. However, this paper will argue — based on quantified pottery analysis — that it is during this time that we see the development, for the first time in the Oman peninsula, of widespread sedentary occupation that was based on small agricultural villages where there is no evidence of copper ore exploitation, thus suggesting that the economic basis of Umm an-Nar society was essentially agricultural.
Furthermore, it will be argued that, through the use of a new survey methodology, it is possible to locate such settlements, even where they have left no traces of monuments, such as tombs or round towers. The methodology allows preliminary comparisons to be made between the intensity of occupation in different periods. The paper also argues that the Umm an-Nar period was one of the most intensive periods of occupation in pre-Islamic history.     

陕西榆林地区夏代文化遗存考察

本文依据目前发现的考古资料,对陕西榆林地区的夏代文化遗存作了初步分析,考察了文化因素及其来源,认定了文化性质,对该地区夏代文化的内涵和特征提出了新认识。     

豫北地区二里头时代的地域间关系——以陶器资料分析为中心

本文在充分收集豫北地区二里头时代遗址资料的基础上,对遗址中出土的陶器构成的变化进行了详细的分析,并从多地域间交流的角度,对豫北地区和其他周边地区的动态关系进行了检讨,以确定豫北地区在中国初期国家形成过程中应有的地位。     

陕西安康市张家坎南朝墓葬发掘纪要

该墓位于陕西安康市张家坎,是20世纪80年代抢救性清理的一座残破墓葬。该墓为长方形砖室墓,出土了陶俑、画像砖和其他随葬物品,尤为重要的是发现了带有南朝梁"天监五年"纪年的铭文砖,故刊布该墓资料的意义重大。     

Domestic Spaces as Public Places: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study of Houses, Gender, and Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon

In an ethnoarchaeological case study, we take a gendered perspective on the house as a locus of political life in Conambo, a village of about 200 Achuar- and Quichua-speaking peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In this small-scale society, women and men engage actively in political practice in independent yet complementary ways, and the domestic context is a place where political life is conducted on a daily basis. In this article, the house is examined as a politicized context at three scales of materiality: the organization of settlement in the community, the spatial relationships in the house, and the scale of painted designs on pottery bowls used in the house. At each scale, we identify material correlates of women's and men's participation. Our goal is to bring attention to potential archaeological correlates of women's political involvement in past societies, to question assumptions about women's political lives and domestic spaces, and to expand the ways in which anthropological archaeology may contribute to understanding cross-cultural variation in women's and men's domains of power.     

Magnetization of Ancient Ceramics

The saturation magnetization σ of soft baked pottery appears to be determined during the firing process by transitions between the iron oxides magnetite, maghemite, hematite and perhaps goethite. The finding of large variations in σ motivated the design and construction of a ‘magnetization–gravitation’, or ‘MG’, balance for rapid non‐destructive magnetization measurements. The first results with this MG balance are presented: iso‐σ contours, typical histograms and correlations with colour features. Practical MG applications are summarized.     

淮阳彩绘陶院落的年代问题

淮阳彩绘陶院落是目前我国汉代考古中极为少见的建筑明器精品.本文依据出土墓葬的形制、随葬品的组合、陶院落的装饰艺术和时代特征等几个方面,对其年代进行了重新判定.     

洛阳汉代彩绘陶壶装饰艺术

洛阳地区出土的汉代彩绘陶壶数量多,图案精美,题材丰富,具有较高的艺术价值.本文从造型、图案和色彩三个方面分析了彩绘陶壶的装饰艺术风格.     

珍珠门文化初探

目前,海岱地区的考古学文化序列已基本清楚。学术界一般认为,北辛文化、大汶口文化、龙山文化和岳石文化属一脉相承的一个文化系统,是东夷族团创造的。岳石文化之后的商代考古学文化,现已区分为商文化和上著文化两大系统,同时还有二者融合产生的地方文化。商文化主要是商人灭夏后逐渐东扩形成的,而土著文化则是继承了岳石文化,为东夷人创造。有学者根据发现的考古资料提出了珍珠门文化①的命名,以此代表胶东半岛商代夷人的文化。 通过考古工作者十余年的努力,发现了较多的与珍珠门遗存相类似的文化遗存,其分布范围和文化特征逐渐…     

江苏徐州花马庄隋唐墓地一号墓、四号墓发掘简报

1992年徐州文物部门对铜山花马庄隋唐墓地一号墓进行了发掘,出土了具有中原洛阳地区风格的较完整的唐三彩俑组合,为江苏地区首次发现,丰富了本地区隋唐考古内容。1996年发掘的四号墓,从墓葬形制和出土器物断定为北朝———隋时期。这两座墓葬的发掘对于花马庄墓地时代以及性质的研究有很大的意义。