整理解读明代财政数据应注意的几个问题——以赖建诚《边镇粮饷:明代中后期的边防经费与国家财政危机,1531～1602》为例

明代留存下来不少财政数据,这些数据均以叙述性文字罗列,给今人利用造成极大困难,急需运用现代统计技术加以整理。但是,由于这些财政数据的来源和性质十分复杂,整理起来有相当的难度。赖建诚教授的《边镇粮饷:明代中后期的边防经费与国家财政危机,1531~1602》一书,在这方面进行了值得充分肯定的尝试,但也出现了一些比较重大的错误。这些错误带有一定的普遍性。这提醒我们在整理解读明代财政数据时应特别注意以下问题:历时性研究必须准确判断财政数字的年代;转录财政数字必须辨清各项目之间的分合关系;比较财政数字必须以性质相同、口径一致为原则;解读财政数字必须明了当时的财政制度。     

Quantifying Animal Trajectories Using Spatial Aggregation and Sequence Analysis: A Case Study of Differentiating Trajectories of Multiple Species

The increasing availability of telemetry data with high spatial and temporal resolution promises to greatly advance scientific understandings of the movement patterns of individual organisms across space and time. The amount of data provided by such methods, however, can be challenging to analyze and interpret. In this study, we present a new approach for analyzing animal movements that aggregates telemetry locations into spatial clusters and extracts the information from sequences formed by individuals passing through these spatial clusters. We applied this integrated approach of spatial aggregation and sequence analysis to quantify and compare trajectories of cattle (Bos taurus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), and elk (Cervus elaphus) tracked by automated telemetry at the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range in northeastern Oregon, USA. Our approach effectively differentiated movement patterns of the three species. It provides a useful mean of quantifying movement patterns of species in a landscape.     

Epipaleolithic/early Neolithic settlements at Qinghai Lake,western China

Transitions from terminal Pleistocene Upper Paleolithic foraging to Holocene Neolithic farming and pastoralist economic orientations in the northern Tibetan Plateau are examined from the perspective of Epipaleolithic sites located near Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Province, western China. Jiangxigou 2 is an artifact-rich, multicomponent midden site with the main period of occupation dating ca. 9000–5000 cal yr BP, containing abundant flaked stone artifacts including a substantial proportion of microlithic tools, abundant faunal remains including gazelle, deer, and sheep, and a small number of ceramics, including the oldest known on the Tibetan Plateau. Heimahe 3, on the other hand, is a brief hunter's camp dating ca. 8450 cal yr BP, with evident affinities to late Upper Paleolithic camps in the same region that date several thousand years older. The two distinctively different sites are probably nodes within a single Epipaleolithic foraging system that developed on the margins of the high Tibetan Plateau during the early Holocene, and that served as a basis for colonization of the high-altitude Plateau at that time. Jiangxigou 2 appears to be connected to early Neolithic agricultural settlements along the upper Yellow River (Huang He) drainage during the middle Holocene, and may provide insights into forager–agriculturalist interactions that lead to the development of pastoralist systems in the region.     

异质文化初次接触的启示——詹姆斯·库克之死个案研究

传统上,库克之死被归咎于夏威夷人的"野蛮",然而该观点却不能解释相关的另一现象:为什么在死后相当长的时间中,库克仍被岛民当做神灵祭拜?从18世纪的夏威夷社会文化本身去解读这一问题,会带给我们更具说服力的解释。在库克与夏威夷人接触的时候,"土著"文化与西方文化的交流还相对平等,夏威夷文化并且还起到更主体化的作用,库克为首的殖民者是被纳入到夏威夷本地文化中理解的。库克的死,可以启发我们去进一步探究异质文化初次碰撞的方式和模式问题。     

黑龙江省集贤县永红城址一、二、三号灰坑清理简报

2004年9月,黑龙江省集贤县文物管理所会同双鸭山市文物管理站对永红城址内被破坏的3处灰坑进行了抢救性的清理,发现骨、陶、石、铁器等80余件,从发现的文物判断,其文化内涵应归属滚兔岭文化.     

也谈考古报告的编写

什么是理想的考古报告,理想的考古报告又是什么?近一段时间以来,已有不少的考古学者纷纷著文,提出了自己心中对于理想考古报告的认识。笔者也想结合自己在考     

故事类型研究的中国意义——读祁连休先生《中国古代民间故事类型研究》

在民俗学、民间文艺学和近年来热闹起来的非物质文化遗产保护的大圈子里,有两个对于大多数人都陌生的著名学者,一个是祁连休先生,一个是马昌仪先生。     

曲阳北岳庙唐李克用题名碑浅析

现藏于河北曲阳北岳庙的唐李克用题名碑是李克用所书。唐中和五年(885年),幽州李克举等犯易定,李克用领兵救援时题字勒石于曲阳北岳庙,其内容可证史,并补史书之遗误。     

华沙渠道与中美关系解冻:华盛顿决策内幕

在冷战的国际大背景下,尼克松政府对苏实施的“缓和”战略使得华盛顿打出“中国牌”,致力于改善同北京的关系。而1969年3月中苏边界武装冲突则为美提供了一个契机。在寻求同中国对话的渠道上,华盛顿首先想到的是华沙渠道,即第135次和136次中美大使级会谈,并为此做了充分的准备。尽管史实证明:华沙渠道的进展不像华盛顿期望的那样顺利,但基本上完成了预期的任务:表达了改善对华关系的愿望,并阐明了不会同苏联合作主宰东亚事务的立场。在华沙渠道完成了既定任务之后,华盛顿又将同北京的联络转为巴基斯坦渠道。     

马家浜文化区的地理景观

马家浜文化区的环境研究,以往都以1000年左右为尺度,即把马家浜文化作为一个基本时间单元来分析,所得结论是粗线条或大趋势性的。在马家浜文化研究近半个世纪的今天,我们已经有条件提取更多信息,变趋势性考察为过程性研究,进而描绘这一时期更加细微的演化曲线,构建人地关系景观。