The Dabona Cemetery in Xiangyun County, Yunnan

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Erhai Lake ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
The West ◽  
Warring States ◽  
The North ◽  
Lake Region ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social

Abstract In 2014, Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions conducted large-scale excavation to the Dabona Cemetery located in Dabona Village and to its east of the Liuchang Town, Xiangyun County. The west zone of the Dabona Cemetery had widely distributed early cultural remains, including house foundations, postholes, ash pits, ash ditches, etc. The east zone consisted of two sections distributed in the north-south direction, in the north section of which 25 burials were recovered; among these burials, six were large-sized ones with lengths more than 6m, and the other were medium- and small-sized burials. The grave goods unearthed from these burials reflected that the dates of the remains and burials were roughly in the Warring-States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties. The area where these remains and burials were located was the main inhabited area of the people of Kunming ethnic group; this excavation provided important materials for the researches on the features and the social situations of the bronze cultures in the Erhai Lake region.

The remains of the ancient bridges on the Wei River in Xi’an City

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Tang Dynasty ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Western Han Dynasty ◽  
The North ◽  
Eastern Han ◽  
Wei River

AbstractThe remains of seven bridges in three groups across the Wei River to the north and northeast of the Chang’an City of the Western Han Dynasty discovered successively since 2012 filled in the blank of the archaeology of the bridges across the Wei River. Among the seven bridges, the Chucheng Gate Bridge No. 1 had huge size, which was the largest wooden structure bridge of the same period known to date. The 14C data showed that the Chucheng Gate Bridge No. 4 was built in the late Warring-States Period; the Chucheng Gate Bridge No. 1 was built in the Western Han and at least rebuilt for two times in the Eastern Han and the Three-Kingdoms Period and Western Jin Dynasty; the Luocheng Gate Bridge was built around the late Western Han through the early Eastern Han and the Chucheng Gate Bridge No. 3 was built in the Tang Dynasty. The coins of the Qing Dynasty unearthed in the excavated area of the Chucheng Gate bridges hinted that at latest in the Kangxi Era of the Qing Dynasty, the Wei River was still in the course of the Han through the Tang Dynasties, and the large-scale northward moving of the course of the Wei River would be after that period.

The excavation of the Xiongjiazhong Graveyard in Jingzhou, Hubei in 2008

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingzhou Municipal Museum
Keyword(s):  
Hubei Province ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Warring States ◽  
The North

AbstractThe Xiongjiazhong Graveyard is situated on a low hill to the west of Zhangchang and Zongbei Villages in Chuandian Town, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. It is 550m long from the north to the south and 200m wide from the west to the east and is composed of main tombs, auxiliary tombs, human victim burials, sacrificial pits and chariot-and-horse pits. From March to December 2008, the Jingzhou Municipal Museum excavated there six horse pits, three small chariot-and-horse pits, and a larger part of a large-sized chariot-and-horse pit (the “grand chariot-and-horse pit” which was numbered CHMK1 by the excavators), in which various types of chariots are orderly arranged in two rows. Judged by the unearthed bronzes and the date of the whole graveyard, the chariot-and-horse pits were probably built in the mid Warring-States Period. The grand chariot-and-horse pit at Xiongjiazhong is also the largest among those discovered so far throughout China. So its excavation is of great value to the study of the chariot system in the Warring- States Period.

The Remains of Liangzhu Culture at Jiangzhuang Site in Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-31
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Materials ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The North ◽  
Main Work ◽  
The People ◽  
Water Wells ◽  
Liangzhu Culture

AbstractIn October 2011 to December 2015, the Institute of Archaeology, Nanjing Museum conducted two terms of excavations to the Jiangzhuang Site located in the administrated areas of Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu Province. The main work was the large-scale uncovering of the settlement of the Liangzhu Culture located in the west zone of the site, the features recovered from which included burials, house foundations, ash pits, water wells, ash ditches, etc. In the cemetery of the Liangzhu Culture in the northeast of the west zone of the site, burials were densely arranged; most of the burials had burial receptacles, and the skeletons were well preserved, the burial positions of which included primary burials and secondary burials. The discovery and excavation of the settlement of Liangzhu Culture at Jiangzhuang Site revised the traditional viewpoint of the academic field that the north border of the Liangzhu Culture was limited by the Yangtze River and provided new materials for the comprehensive and in-depth researches on the civilization and society of the Liangzhu Culture. The large amount of human skeletons unearthed from the burials of the Liangzhu Culture will also effectively improve the indepth researches on the burial custom, social organization and relationship and racial attribution of the people of Liangzhu Culture.

Art. VII.—Notes on Persian Belúchistán. From the Persian of Mirza Mehdy Khán. Published Teheran, July, 1875

1876 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
A. H. Schindler
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Temperate Climate ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Cool Climate

The part of Belúchistán now under Persian rule is bounded upon the north by Seistán, upon the east by Panjgúr and Kej, upon the south by the Indian Ocean, and upon the west by Núrámshír, Rúdbár, and the Báshákerd mountains.This country enjoys a variety of climates; almost unbearable heat exists on the Mekrán coast, we find a temperate climate on the hill slopes and on the slightly raised plains as at Duzek and Bampúr, and a cool climate in the mountainous districts Serhad and Bazmán. The heat at Jálq is said to be so intense in summer that the gazelles lie down exhausted in the plains, and let themselves be taken by the people without any trouble.

The Britons in Southern Scotland

Antiquity ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 29 (114) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
The North ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
The People ◽  
Northern Portion

The archaeological background of the people of what is now Scotland south of the Forth and Clyde in the Roman period was a La Téne one, and specifically chiefly Iron Age B. This links them intimately with the Britons of southern Britain in the conglomeration of Celtic tribes who called themselves Brittones and spoke what we call the Brittonic or Ancient British form of Celtic, from which are descended the three modern languages of Welsh, Cornish and Breton. To the north of the Forth was a different people, the Picts. They too were Celts or partly Celts; probably not Brittones however, but a different branch of the Celtic race, though more closely related to the Brittones than to the Goidels of Ireland and (in later times) of the west of Scotland. Not being Brittonic, the Picts may be ignored here. Our southern Scottish Brittones are nothing but the northern portion of a common Brittonic population, from the southern portion of which come the people of Wales and Cornwall. Some historians speak of the northern Brittones as Welsh, following good Anglo-Saxon precedent, but this is apt to lead to confusion. The best term for them, in the Dark Ages and early Medieval period, as long as they survived, is ‘Cumbrians’, and for their language, ‘Cumbric’. They called themselves in Latin Cumbri and Cumbrenses, which is a Latinization of the native word Cymry, meaning ‘fellow-countrymen’, which both they and the Welsh used of themselves in common, and is still the Welsh name for the Welsh to the present day. The centre of their power was Strathclyde, the Clyde valley, with their capital at Dumbarton.

Project Report on the "Investigation of the Present Situation and Development of Ethnic Minorities in China"

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Hao Shiyuan
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Warring States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spring And Autumn Period ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shi Ji

When viewed from the perspective of history, China has not had a flourishing anthropology and ethnology. However, China's traditions of ethnographic-like perspectives have flourished for a long time. Since the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) and Warring States Period (475-221 BC), multiethnic structure and social relations have been recorded in China's history. Ever since Sima Qian's Shi Ji (the Historical Records), the first general history of China compiled around 100 BC, the social history and cultural customs of ethnic minorities had been covered in each dynasty's history. Moreover, some special chapters had been dedicated to keeping the records of ethnic minorities. Of course such records were not completely unbiased.

Migratory Labour from North-Wester Nigeria

Africa ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Mansell Prothero
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Source Area ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Limited Scale ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphReaders of Africa will be well aware of population migration as a characteristic feature of a continent where movement between one part and another is largely unrestricted as compared with the more settled parts of the world. There is much evidence of large-scale tribal migrations in the past, of the age-old seasonal wanderings of herders, and of recent labour migration to centres of mineral and industrial production, the last particularly in Central and South Africa. Information is more limited concerning the features of labour migration in West Africa at the present day. In general it is thought that migrants leave their home areas, after the harvest at the commencement of the dry season, to seek work elsewhere for a period of from three to six months and then return to take up farming with the commencement of the next rains. The major source area for these migrants is to the north of the tenth parallel where the wet season is concentrated into a period of about four months, thus severely restricting agricultural activity. Cultivation during the dry season is possible only on a very limited scale. There is thus a considerable period of the year when the primary economic activity of the people is not possible. It is logical that they should seek work elsewhere.

Structural and metamorphic relationships between the Mount Ida and Monashee Groups at Mara Lake, British Columbia

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent C. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ductile Deformation ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
The North ◽  
Phase Deformation ◽  
Metamorphic Core

Mara Lake, British Columbia straddles the boundary between the Monashee Group on the east and the Mount Ida Group on the west. Correlation of units across the southern end of Mara Lake indicates lithologic continuity between parts of the groups. Both groups have experienced four phases of deformation. Phases one and two are tight and recumbent, trending to the north and to the west, respectively. Phases three and four are open to closed and upright, trending northwest and northeast, respectively. Second-phase deformation includes large-scale tectonic slides that separate areas of consistent vergence. Slide surfaces are folded by third- and fourth-phase structures and outline domal outcrop patterns. Metamorphic grade increases from north to south along the west side of Mara Lake. Calc-silicate reactions involving the formation of diopside are characteristic. From west to east increasing grade is evident in the reaction of muscovite + quartz producing sillimanite + K-feldspar + water. These prograde reactions are related to relative position in the second-phase structure. The highest grade is located near the lowest slide surface. Greenschist conditions accompanied phase-three deformation. Fourth phase is characterized by hydrothermal alteration, brittle fracturing, and local faulting. First-phase deformation appears to be pre-Late Triassic whereas second and third phases are post-Late Triassic and pre-Cretaceous. The fourth phase is part of a regional Tertiary event. The third folding event is correlated with the development of the Chase antiform and the second-phase folding is related to the pervasive east–west fabric of the Shuswap Complex. The timing of these events indicates that the metamorphic core zone of the eastern Cordillera was relatively rigid during the late Mesozoic foreland thrust development. Ductile deformation significantly preceded thrusting and developed a fabric almost at right angles to the trend of the thrust belt.

Chinese Communist Treatment of the Origins and the Foundation of the Chinese Empire

1965 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 78-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. P. Hulsewé
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Warring States ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Chinese Empire

In antiquity, China was far from being the China we know today, neither in extent, nor in political and social organisation. To the south it did not extend beyond the Yangtze River, to the north it stopped short of the Mongolian steppe, to the north-east, only a small part of the south Manchurian plain was included, whereas in the west it merely went up to the easternmost part of what is now Kansu Province; the Szechwan plain was only included at the end of the fourth century B.C. Politically, the King of Chou was theoretically the overlord of most of this area, but in actual practice, independent rulers reigned over a congeries of larger and smaller states. As a result of wars of conquest, seven large states had come to be formed by the middle of the fifth century B.C. and these were engaged in a ceaseless struggle for supremacy. The time between the middle of the fifth century and 221 B.C., when the western state of Ch'in finally conquered all its rivals, is known as the period of the Warring States.

scholarly journals Rural's Reinvention in Rio de Janeiro: Café na Roça Experience in Campo Grande Neighborhood

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-408
Author(s):  
Maria Amalia Silva Alves de Oliveira ◽  
◽  
Ingrid Almeida de Barros Pena ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
The West ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The City

The socioeconomic, political and cultural integration process of the region known as Zona Oeste [West Zone], in the city of Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], was built on agricultural vocation conceiving. The spatial analysis of this work is Rio da Prata, a neighborhood of Campo Grande, in the West Zone. Using desk and field methods, the methodological orientation is given by the theoretical framework of Social Memory. A contextualization of the region is presented in a historical perspective, seeking to dialogue in an interdisciplinary way with issues inherent to representations about the urban-rural from a perspective reoriented towards to the environmental bias, and also about the notions of 'tourism' and 'leisure'. It is hypothesized that the increase of visitation in natural areas, allied to the tendency of turistification of rural communities’ lifestyle changed the people flow in the neighborhood and produced symbolic goods. This work discusses the nuances presented in the turistification process and highlights that it is the memory of what remained in the social representation as rural that draws up the local attractiveness.

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