《古物》杂志可以说是世界考古学界的领军刊物，刊发世界考古学各时段的重大发现和最新研究成果。拥有一个全球性的网络是《古物》最大的优势之一，而对于世界各地考古最新进展和发现的持续报道，也是它区别于其他大部分考古学刊物的特色。得益于通俗明了的写作、高水准的文章质量和丰富的图解，优质的编辑水平是《古物》成功的关键，也让更多读者得以接近考古。

世界各个角落的考古动向都是《古物》积极发掘和宣传介绍的目标，而全球性的覆盖范围也意味着需要掌握地域性的平衡。如何组织起不同的地区、时代和主题？这个问题并不好回答，但我们始终认为，要理解当今世界的互通互联，考古学的全球视野必不可少。考古学是在世界范围内研究与解释人类社会的理想阵地，它可以不受文字记载的限制深入探究史前世界，并关照古代和现代社会。《古物》的核心宗旨之一便是帮助与鼓励来自不同国家和背景的作者们，跨越语言和不同地域研究与出版传统的藩篱。它最近几期的作者来自广大的地理区，其中非英语为母语者占有很大比例，其作者和读者群也正在世界范围内不断扩大。

《古物》并不满足于只刊登文章，它还不时发出自己的声音。它的评论版块为编辑提供了报道与评论业界发展现状和相关地区与问题的机会，也有广泛的受众群。从学者、遗产专业人士到普通读者，从英国、欧洲到世界各地，《古物》成为不同行业和兴趣联结的中心。它努力响应所有的赞助者，投身大众传媒界正在经历的数字化革命，适应考古学的日益全球化。

发展简史

《古物》由克劳福德（O.G.S. Crawford）创办于1927年。克劳福德是在考古领域应用航拍技术的先驱，并发表有关于英国史前史的论文和著作，一战后成为英国地形测量局的考古官员。然而他的志向并不限于此，《古物》便成为其投身世界考古学的开端。正如克氏在其第一篇评论中所言，“放眼全世界，求索百万年，探究全人类”，《古物》第一期即刊登了介绍新西兰毛利人、高山城寨中的阿尔及利亚人和法尤姆埃及人的文章，以及关于斯里兰卡、蒙古和南非的短记。

直到1957年逝世，克劳福德一直担任《古物》的编辑。其继任者格林·丹尼尔（Glyn Daniel）当时是剑桥大学考古系讲师，后来成为迪斯尼教授。在随后的数十年间，《古物》便与剑桥大学结下了不解之缘。丹尼尔1987年退休之后编辑任务移交给克里斯·齐宾代尔（Chris Chippindale），而卡洛琳·马龙（Caroline Malone）和西蒙·斯托达特（Simon Stoddart）在1998年接替了齐宾代尔的工作。2003年，《古物》的工作阵地在新任编辑马丁·卡弗（Martin Carver）的主持下迁往约克大学。2013年，《古物》编辑部又移至杜伦。

后继的编辑们始终坚持着克劳福德对《古物》的定位：关于世界考古学的通俗学术刊物。随着考古学的发展，《古物》的容量也在不断增加：1927年总计490页，1997年1122页，2013年1278页。《古物》创刊时为季刊，一年刊发4期（分别为3月、6月、9月和12月，上世纪七八十年代除外），至2015年，为应对不断增长的扩容压力、发表更多高质量的文章，《古物》由季刊改为双月刊，每年6期，刊发文章的总页数亦随之攀增（2017年为1694页）。这一扩容不仅反映出考古学在世界范围内的蓬勃发展，也代表了《古物》所取得的成绩。

2013至2017年集锦

在过去的五年里，《古物》刊发了大量具有国际意义的重要文章，从旧石器时代艺术到中世纪皇家墓葬，直至二十世纪战争，主题范围包罗万象。例如2015年12月吴哥特刊，以5篇文章的形式报道了罗兰·弗莱彻（Roland Fletcher）及其团队近年在吴哥地区的工作，以助人们更好地理解这座庞大而又分散的城市结构与历史。

2016年4月玛雅特刊发表了玛雅地区近期的工作进展。所刊文章内容包括玛雅时期水资源控制情形的变化图表、玛雅文字的社会与政治角色、西班牙统治在不同玛雅地区的影响，以及近年来玛雅当地遗产的叙述与传承等。其中最后一项内容提醒着人们，玛雅文化并没有消失，它在玛雅人祖祖辈辈生活的地方依然存在。

《古物》同样关注着东亚考古的重要发现，已刊登的文章涉及秦始皇陵兵马俑坑出土弩的生产（2014年3月刊）和兵马俑的制作与生产组织（2017年8月刊），合浦汉墓与汉代海上丝绸之路（2014年12月刊），郑和远航霍尔木兹的考古学证据（2015年4月刊），南澳沉船出水瓷器（2016年6月刊），牛河梁神庙与其腹地的关系（2017年2月刊），成都汉墓出土最早提花织机模型（2017年4月刊），商周青铜器的组合与流通（2016年4月刊、6月刊），以及中原和北方草原的关系（2014年3月刊、2017年6月刊）等。

欧洲考古依然在《古物》中占据重要位置。自1927年创刊之时，它便采用索尔兹伯里巨石阵的一幅木刻版画作为徽标，此后研究与讨论巨石阵的文章亦刊登不断。近期的相关文章有南威尔士克雷格罗西菲林采石场的发现（2015年12月刊），重新分析了巨石阵中许多火葬痕迹显示其为新石器时代晚期的一处重要墓地（2016年4月刊），并因此针对修建一条穿过该遗址边缘地区公路隧道的计画提出新建议（编辑主笔，2017年6月刊）等。《古物》近几年刊登的近世研究文章如法国、比利时、德国一战与二战战场航拍照片的分析（2015年2月刊、2017年2月刊），和拿破仑大军驻地木炭遗存的研究（2016年10月刊），都揭示出大规模军事集聚对当地植被产生的深远影响。

此外，《古物》始终保持着对当下问题的关注，如气候变化与人类世，掠夺与城市发展给考古遗址带来的大规模破坏，以及西方与非西方学界对于21世纪考古学角色与未来的看法等。

前景与展望

《古物》这类杂志的编辑工作，前景广阔，机遇与挑战并存。它在很大程度上属于团队合作的成果，依赖作者、评论者和读者各自发挥所长，投入时间和心力。编辑委员会、理事会和发行方剑桥大学出版社都为《古物》的发展提供了无法估量的支持与建议。最后但也是很重要的一点，杜伦的编辑团队保障着杂志以最高的专业水准按时出刊。我们相信，紧随全球化的步伐，《古物》之路会越走越宽。

《古物》杂志徽标说明

《古物》杂志与巨石阵渊源已久，克劳福德于1927年创刊时采用的刊标即是明证。《古物》第一期的封面图片为克劳福德在地形测量局的同事埃利斯·马丁（Ellis Martin）设计的巨石阵木刻剪影，随后这一标志出现于刊物的每一期。但它也并不是一成不变的。1959年，时任编辑丹尼尔启用了由他在剑桥的同事布莱恩·霍普-泰勒（Brian Hope-Taylor）设计的新版巨石阵标志，霍普-泰勒是昂格鲁-萨克森专家，也是一位技艺高超的考古绘图工作者。之所以改换新标，是因为当时巨石阵的修复工作改变了其外观，原来的刊标便显得不甚准确（《古物》第33期，1959年，51页）。丹尼尔的继任者齐宾代尔又将霍普-泰勒的图标放大去底，重新在奶油底色上以灰色打印。2003和2013年的封面设计也是在泰勒图标的基础上进行各种变化。

Antiquity is probably the leading academic journal of world archaeology, and covers major discoveries and new research throughout the world and across every time period. The global remit is one of its greatest strengths, and its consistent reporting of recent developments and discoveries from all parts of the world sets it apart from almost all other archaeological journals. High editorial standards are crucial to its success and help to make archaeology accessible to a wide readership. Clear and intelligible writing, high production values and informative illustrations are key components in achieving this goal.

The growth of archaeology throughout almost every corner of the world is a welcome development that Antiquity seeks actively to reflect and promote. Global coverage does of course imply issues of regional balance. How should one decide what an appropriate representation of different regions, periods and themes might constitute? There is no simple answer, but our underlying message is that archaeology at a global scale is essential for a proper understanding of the interconnected world of today. Archaeology is ideally equipped to study and interpret the development of human societies in worldwide perspective. Archaeology delves deep into the prehistoric past and covers societies both ancient and modern without being reliant on the survival of written records. A core part of Antiquity’s mission is to assist and encourage authors from different countries and backgrounds, in order to overcome barriers between different languages and between different regional traditions of research and publication. Recent issues of Antiquity illustrate the broad geographical coverage and strong representation of non-anglophone researchers. We have today a growing number of authors and readers drawn from all parts of the world.

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A Brief History

Antiquity was founded by O.G.S. Crawford in 1927. Crawford was a pioneer in the use of aerial photography in archaeology and published articles and books on British prehistory. After the First World War he became archaeological officer for the British official mapping service, the Ordnance Survey. His interests were much wider than that, however, and Antiquity was from the outset devoted to world archaeology. As Crawford famously stated in his first editorial, “our field is the Earth, our range in time a million years or so, our subject the human race”. The very first volume contained articles on Maori New Zealand, Algerian hillforts, the Egyptian Fayum and notes on Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Southern Africa.

Crawford remained editor of Antiquity until his death in 1957, when the editorship passed to Glyn Daniel, then a Lecturer and later Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Over the following decades Antiquity developed a strong association with Cambridge. Chris Chippindale took over as editor on Daniel’s retirement in 1987, and Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart took over from Chippindale in 1998. Then in 2003 Antiquity moved away from Cambridge to the University of York under a new editor, Martin Carver; and most recently, in 2013, it moved to Durham.

Successive editors have built upon Crawford’s vision of Antiquity as a scholarly but accessible journal of world archaeology. The size of the journal has expanded as the pace of archaeological activity has grown: from 490 pages in 1927 to 1122 in 1997 and 1278 in 2013. Apart from a brief period in the 1970s and 1980s, Antiquity had from its inception been a quarterly journal, appearing in four issues each year (March, June, September, December). The growing pressure on space and the desire to accommodate more high quality material led to the decision to move from four issues to six issues per year in 2015. There was a consequent further increase in page extent (1694 pages in 2017). This expansion is a reflection both of the success of archaeology as a global enterprise, and the success of Antiquity.

Highlights 2013-2017

Over the past five years Antiquity has published a wide range of papers of major international significance. These have ranged in subject from Palaeolithic art to medieval royal burials and twentieth century warfare. A special section on Angkor was published in our December 2015 issue. This series of five papers reported on recent work by Roland Fletcher and his team that has begun to understand better the structure and history of that large dispersed city.

A second special section in April 2016 was dedicated to recent work on the Maya. This included papers charting the changing character of water control across the Maya centuries, and the social and political role of Maya writing. Other papers addressed the varying impacts of Spanish rule in the different Maya regions, and the survival in recent times of local Maya heritage narratives, reminding us that the Maya did not disappear but live on today in the territories occupied by their ancestors.

Antiquity has also covered important discoveries in East Asia archaeology: among them, the production of crossbows for the Terracotta Army (March 2014) and of the terracotta figures themselves (August 2017); the maritime Silk Road under the Han Dynasty reflected in finds from the Hepu tombs in Guangxi; archaeological evidence of Zheng Zhe’s voyages to Hormuz (April 2015); the porcelain from the Nan’ao shipwreck (June 2016); the relationship of Niuheliang shrine to its hinterland (February 2017); the earliest evidence of pattern looms from a Han dynasty tomb at Chengdu; the composition and circulation of bronzes in the Shang and Zhou periods (April 2016, June 2016); and relations between China and the steppes (March 2014, June 2017).

European archaeology has continued to feature prominently in Antiquity. When the journal was founded in 1927, a woodcut of Stonehenge was adopted as its logo, and Stonehenge remains a focus of research and debate. It has featured in recent issues through the discovery of a quarry at Craig Rhos-y-felin in south Wales (December 2015), the reanalysis of the many cremations from Stonehenge that show it to have been an important Late Neolithic cemetery (April 2016), and renewed proposals for a road tunnel past the edge of site (Editorial, June 2017). Coverage of more recent centuries includes the analysis of aerial photography of battlefields of the First and Second World wars in France, Belgium and Germany (February 2015, February 2017), and from a slightly earlier period, study of the charcoal remains from Napoleonic army camps (October 2016) that reveal the profound impact that military concentrations of this kind must have had on the local vegetation.

Finally, Antiquity remains engaged in topical debates, such as climate change and the Anthropocene, the extensive damage to archaeological sites from looting and development, and western and non-western perspectives on the role and future of archaeology in the 21st century.

Looking Forward

Editing a journal such as Antiquity opens up wide vistas and offers exciting challenges and opportunities. It is, however, very much a team effort, dependent upon all those who have devoted time and attention in their different capacities, whether as authors, reviewers, or readers. The Editorial Advisory Board, the Antiquity Trustees, and the journals division of Cambridge University Press provide invaluable support and advice. And last but not least, the editorial team at Durham ensure that the journal is produced in a timely manner to the highest professional standards. We are confident that in our increasingly international world, Antiquity will continue to go from strength to strength.

Notes on the Antiquity Logo

Antiquity has had a long association with Stonehenge, one that is manifest in the logo that was adopted by O.G.S. Crawford, founder of Antiquity in 1927. The front cover of the first ever issue features the woodcut silhouette of Stonehenge that was designed for Crawford by Ellis Martin, one of his colleagues at the Ordnance Survey. A version of the same logo has appeared on every subsequent issue. But it has not remained unchanged. In 1959 the then editor of Antiquity, Glyn Daniel, commissioned a new, crisper version of the Stonehenge logo from his Cambridge colleague Brian Hope-Taylor, an Anglo-Saxon specialist and an accomplished archaeological draughtsman. The reason was the recent restoration work undertaken at Stonehenge, which in changing the appearance of the stones made the earlier logo inaccurate (Antiquity 33 (1959), 51). When he succeeded Glyn Daniel as editor in 1986, Chris Chippindale took the Hope-Taylor image, enlarged it, chopped off the base, and printed it in gray on cream. Subsequent changes to the cover design in 2003 and 2013 have reproduced the Hope-Taylor version in various forms.