Cultural Landscapes of Resilience and Vulnerability: The Selin Farm Site, Northeastern Honduras

IF 1.5 1区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

JOURNAL OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-11-14 DOI:10.1080/00934690.2022.2141888

Leslie A. Reeder-Myers, Whitney Goodwin, Alejandro Figueroa, Alejandra I. Domic, J. Fernandez-Diaz

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ABSTRACT Research at the Selin Farm site in northeastern Honduras examined changing cultural landscapes in a region whose prehistory is poorly understood. Low-impact field methods and radiocarbon dates reveal how this cultural landscape changed in response to shifting priorities among its inhabitants from a.d. 300–1000. We found evidence for rapid accumulation of deposits beginning around a.d. 600, when the site nearly doubled in size over the span of just decades, before retracting again within a few centuries. Although it was caught up in some of the broader social and political changes that began around a.d. 600 throughout northern Honduras and southern Mesoamerica, the longevity of this site suggests stability of the cultural and ecological systems in which it was embedded until the final centuries of occupation. Well-preserved, long-term deposits make Selin Farm an ideal location in which to explore entangled processes of environmental and social change in the little-known small-scale societies of Central America.

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对洪都拉斯东北部塞林农场遗址的研究考察了该地区不断变化的文化景观，该地区的史前史知之甚少。低影响的实地方法和放射性碳测年揭示了公元300-1000年间，随着居民优先事项的变化，这一文化景观是如何变化的。我们发现了沉积物从公元600年左右开始迅速积累的证据，当时这个遗址在短短几十年的时间里几乎扩大了一倍，然后在几个世纪内再次缩小。虽然它卷入了大约公元600年开始的洪都拉斯北部和中美洲南部的一些更广泛的社会和政治变革，但这个遗址的长寿表明，直到占领的最后几个世纪，它所嵌入的文化和生态系统都很稳定。保存完好的长期沉积物使Selin农场成为探索中美洲鲜为人知的小规模社会中环境和社会变化的纠缠过程的理想地点。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Field Archaeology is an international, refereed journal serving the interests of archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, scientists, and others concerned with the recovery and interpretation of archaeological data. Its scope is worldwide and is not confined to any particular time period. Contributions in English are welcomed from all countries.