Awkwardness of becoming a boundary object: Mangle and materialities of reports,documentation data,and the archaeological work

Information about an archaeological investigation is documented in an archaeological report, which makes it the boundary object par excellence for archaeological information work across stakeholder communities such as field archaeologists, heritage managers, and land developers. The quality of reports has been a subject of debate, and recently it has been argued that more emphasis should be placed on making primary research data at least similarly available. This study explores the changing materialities and reciprocal formation of documents and their users with the advent of digitization, and how documents form and lose their status as boundary objects in these processes. The study posits that in order to be functional, a boundary object needs to provide a disclosure that makes it accessible to cognate communities. Further, it shows how assumptions about the functioning of the human and nonhuman (material artifacts) influence the ways in which archaeologists conceptualize the preservation and archiving of archaeological information and the role and potential of different types of digital and paper-based documents. This article is based on an interview study of Swedish archaeology professionals (N = 16) with theoretical underpinnings in the notions of boundary objects, mangle of practice, and disclosure.     

丁文江与中国早期考古学

以1928年为界，中国考古学可分为科学与历史两个阶段。早期考古学带有明显的科学化色彩，这与丁文江领导的地质调查所密不可分。仰韶文化的发现及周口店猿人遗址的发掘，奠定了中国考古学发展的坚实基础。同时，丁文江本人所具备的地质学、古生物学、人类学等领域的知识，则是促成中国早期考古学科学化的主要动力。     

民国时期考古学界的新与旧

民国时期是中国考古学从传统转向现代的一个特殊时期,有着金石学根底的本土学者与有着留学背景的新型考古学者之间,既有一定的学术承续,又有明显不同的学术取向,构成中国考古学发展史上新旧并存的一个独特阶段。     

墓葬壁画研究的方法论探讨——从美术考古的角度出发

要加强对墓葬壁画研究的系统性和深入性,有必要从一个学科的高度,对墓葬壁画的研究进行一些方法论规定性的思索。对某一时期墓葬壁画的研究大体可分为这样几个步骤或层次：一、利用传统考古学的地层学和类型学的方法对壁画墓资料进行系统的整理;二、结合文献史料,对墓葬壁画的文化背景、源流及艺术风格等问题的探讨;三、对壁画功能和意义进行解读,从而复原图像与墓葬本身的关系,以及图像与丧葬意识和行为过程的关系;四、将对墓葬壁画的研究扩展到整个文化史范围,努力达到复原古代社会文化的目的。     

青铜器及其陶范考古中常用的分析方法研究

各种化学分析仪器在考古学中的应用使考古学取得了很大的进展,本文主要从各种成分分析方法如扫描电子显微镜、X射线衍射、X射线荧光分析、金相显微镜等在青铜器及其陶范考古中的应用入手,分析了各种分析仪器在考古学中的重要作用。     

Archaeology and Sports History: Towards an Inclusive Methodology

By focusing on football grounds as a form of material culture, this paper shows how archaeology can illuminate textual and other historical documents. It looks at the developing area of community archaeological projects and how these help reinforce the role of place, memory, and meaning in the historic sports landscape.     

Experiential archaeology: Is virtual time travel possible?

Advances in computing hardware coupled with its software counterparts have, for the past decades, influenced to a greater extent both the workflow of archaeologists and their interpretation of archaeological data. On the leisurely periphery, the synergy that arises between entertainment demands and commercial driven developments of interactive 3D (i3D) computer games has pushed these technologies beyond the expectations of the Virtual Reality (VR) community. This phenomenal growth in useable technology and its proportionate decrease in price have benefited the applicability of VR which in turn, have made it more accessible for researchers wishing to harness its benefits. The last 10 years have seen a steady increase in the use of VR technology to restore, preserve, reconstruct, recreate, and visualise ancient sites, monuments and artefacts. But, is technology ready for virtual time travel (VTT)? This article examines the possibility of experiential archaeology in voltage and silicon with the aim of formulating a strategy for VTT.     

Pre-Hispanic Music Survivals from the Canary Islands

This article discusses the evidence, mainly ethno-historical, for music and dance in the Canary Islands prior to the incorporation of the archipelago in the Crown of Castile during the fifteenth century. The survival of essential elements of pre-Hispanic music and dance is noted in some present-day dance forms, as are related customs in some of the islands’ main festivals. The relationship between pre-Hispanic dance and the Renaissance and early modern European dance, in the Canaries, is described and identified as an area for future research.     

《周易》揲劫算法结果数的出现概率及考古应用

对《周易》成卦所用揲劫计算结果数的出现概率进行了分析，发现6、7、8、9这四个可能得到的结果数的出现概率分别为0．0517、0，2888、0．4483和0．2112。《左传》和《国语》中十四个筮例的相关数据印证了计算的结果。这个结论可以为揲劫算法定型时期的下限为西周晚期提供一个旁证。     

渭河上游旧石器时代末期人地关系及其对农业文明起源的启示

渭河上游地区是中国农业文明的重要起源地之一,探讨本区旧石器时代末期人类活动与自然环境之间的关系,有利于为本区农业文明起源的探索提供新线索。更新世时期渭河上游气候与植被几经变迁。本区旧石器时代晚期地点绝大部分分布在更新世末期气候相对适宜期的黄土沟谷中,相对恶劣的生态环境和采猎经济形态,是制约本区人类地点分布的主要因素。从黄土沟谷至河谷阶地,可能才是适合黄土高原地区农业起源的模式。