Hunter-gatherer-builders: 70 years of research at the Natufian hamlet of Eynan-Mallaha (upper Jordan Valley, Israel)

IF 0.9 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2025-04-06 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2025.100618

Fanny Bocquentin , Elisa Caron-Laviolette , Niels Fourchet , Laurent Davin , Brent Whitford , Louise Heccan , Erwan Le Gueut , Julie Bessenay-Prolonge , Aurélie Montagne Bôrras , Lior Weissbrod

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Abstract

Since 1955, research at Eynan-Mallaha has unraveled an exceptionally thick, well-preserved, and detailed archaeological sequence spanning from the Early to the Final Natufian. Among other important findings, the site has yielded a relatively high number of stone constructions, comprising semi-circular and circular semi-subterranean buildings, divulging a clear evolutionary trend in early building activity. Here we review the work that has been carried out in regard to Eynan-Mallaha's constructions, from the site's discovery to the latest discoveries from our renewed excavations. Archival records from earlier excavations at the site are considered here in detail for the first time using digitization tools and high-resolution data acquisition techniques. Our focus is on a series of nested buildings (Loci 148–131–51-62) occupied at different times during the Early Natufian, which is re-evaluated here in light of cumulative and more fine-grained stratigraphic data, architectural analysis from the emerging field of Building Archaeology, and GIS-aided analysis combining archival and recent datasets. We argue for the development of a strong sense of place and permanence at Eynan-Mallaha, attested by the nuanced series of continuities in and modifications to the documented constructions from one generation to another through the constantly repaired and recycled built-up space.

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狩猎-采集-建造：在以色列约旦河谷上游的纳图夫村庄Eynan-Mallaha进行的70年研究

自1955年以来，在埃南-马拉哈的研究已经揭开了一个异常厚的、保存完好的、详细的考古序列，从早期到最后的纳图夫人。在其他重要发现中，该遗址出土了相对较多的石头建筑，包括半圆形和圆形半地下建筑，揭示了早期建筑活动的明显进化趋势。在这里，我们回顾了关于埃南-马拉哈建筑的工作，从遗址的发现到我们重新挖掘的最新发现。这里首次使用数字化工具和高分辨率数据采集技术详细研究了该遗址早期挖掘的档案记录。我们的重点是早期纳图夫不同时期的一系列嵌套建筑（地点148-131-51-62），根据累积和更细颗粒的地层数据，建筑考古学新兴领域的建筑分析，以及结合档案和最新数据集的gis辅助分析，在这里重新评估。我们主张在Eynan-Mallaha发展一种强烈的地方感和持久性，通过不断修复和回收的建筑空间，从一代到另一代对记录建筑的一系列细微的连续性和修改证明了这一点。

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Archaeological Research in Asia ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.