Denise Osborn on George E. P. Box and Gwilym Jenkins's Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control . I first heard of Box and Jenkins in about 1971 as a graduate student in economic statistics at...
This week's First Impressions comes from a novel by a good man who was born in West Africa: "My first act on entering this world was to kill my mother. I was heaved - a healthy eight pounds -...
Neolithic 7000 - 1700BC Histories: hunter gatherers became farmers around 7000BC. Main cultures: Peiligang and Cishan in north (6500-5000BC); Yangshao in centre and W along River Wei (5000-3500BC),...
Recent archaeological finds in China have revolutionised our understanding of that country's ancient civilisation. Some of the astonishing artefacts are on show at the British Museum, where on...
The term "Bronze Age" is a leftover from the early days of archaeology when archaeologists thought that the use of this alloy of copper, tin, and lead marked a distinct stage in human history. But...
The articles on pages I-V are based on papers to be presented this week-end at "Mysteries of Ancient China: New Discoveries from the Early Dynasties" at the British Museum in London. The...
GINA BARNES describes the artefacts unearthed at Niuheliang, a Neolithic site northeast of Beijing, which has been claimed as the ultimate source of Chinese civilisation Niuheliang, an unusual ritual...
The discovery at Sanxingdui of two pits filled with deliberately shattered bronzes, jades and fragments of gold and animal bone is the single most startling archaeological find of recent years. The...
Has the record of writing in ancient China been skewed because the more durable bone and bronze used for communication with the dead survived, while the bamboo and wood that would have been used for...
Excavated manuscripts of the past 50 years allow a glimpse of the religious rituals of the classical Chinese civilisation's elite. Donald Harper reports on a lost religion Over the long duration of...
Julian Axe, former secretary and registrat at the medical college of St Bartholomew's Hospital, has been appointed secretary to the Imperial College School of Medicine.
University of Strathclyde DLitt: Peter Howson, Scottish painter. DSc: Bob O'Connell, managing director of Merck Ltd LLD: Patrick Lally, lord provost of Glasgow. King Alfred's College, Winchester...
Human Genetics Advisory Commission Sir Colin Campbell, vice chancellor of Nottingham University is to chair a new commission. It will consider the broad social, ethical and economic consequences of...
The Fraenkel Prize in contemporary history for 1996, presented by the Wiener Library, London, has been awarded as follows: Jeffrey Herf (United States) and Marion Kaplan (US) shared the prize open to...
South African lecturer Farid Esack is one of a rare breed, the radical Muslim, unafraid to challenge Islamic prejudice. His appointment to the new Gender Equality Commission is all grist to the mill...