Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures―how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their predators, and more. What would it be like to see prehistoric animals as they lived and bre...(展开全部)

Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures―how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their predators, and more. What would it be like to see prehistoric animals as they lived and bre...(展开全部)

Silk Roads, Steppe Roads takes the reader on a journey to three sites in northwestern China and Mongolia to investigate medieval Chinese tombs containing evidence of Eastern Eurasian cultural contacts and exchanges. The construction, artifacts, and texts on paper and stone found at these tombs of the Sui (581–618) and early Tang (618–907) dynasties reveal glimpses of people, ri...(展开全部)

1981年に中華人民共和国ウイグル自治区のトルファン市の北東に位置するベゼクリク千仏洞の遺跡から発見され、世界的に注目を集めながら本格的な紹介がこれまでなされなかったマニ教ソグド語文書3点をめぐって、そのテクスト・翻訳・註釈・語彙を提出すると共に、その歴史的背景及びソグド語手紙文の書式一般を論じる（全文英文）。

1981年に中華人民共和国ウイグル自治区のトルファン市の北東に位置するベゼクリク千仏洞の遺跡から発見され、世界的に注目を集めながら本格的な紹介がこれまでなされなかったマニ教ソグド語文書3点をめぐって、そのテクスト・翻訳・註釈・語彙を提出すると共に、その歴史的背景及びソグド語手紙文の書式一般を論じる（全文英文）。