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The rongorongo tablet from Berlin and the time-depth of Easter Island’s writing system 柏林的朗格朗格石碑和复活节岛文字系统的时间深度

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-08-27 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1950874

Rafał M. Wieczorek, K. Frankiewicz, A. Oskolski, Paul Horley

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Colonial rainfed farming strategies in an extremely arid insular environment: Niche construction on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain 极端干旱的岛屿环境中的殖民雨养农业策略:西班牙加那利群岛兰萨罗特岛的生态位建设

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-07-05 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1924898

C. Stevenson, A. Naranjo‐Cigala, T. Ladefoged, F. J. Díaz

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Review of Pleistocene Archaeology – Migration, Technology, and Adaptation 更新世考古学综述:迁移、技术和适应

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-05-08 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1912218

Joshua R. Robinson

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A population history of Tokelau – genetic variation and change in atoll populations 托克劳的种群历史——环礁种群的遗传变异和变化

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1901805

A. Gosling, E. Lord, J. Boocock, Sophia R. Cameron-Christie, K. Horsburgh, Olga Kardailsky, S. Prost, Stephen A. Wilcox, D. Addison, A. Thompson, J. Kalolo, Andrew C. Clarke, E. Matisoo-Smith

{"title":"A population history of Tokelau – genetic variation and change in atoll populations","authors":"A. Gosling, E. Lord, J. Boocock, Sophia R. Cameron-Christie, K. Horsburgh, Olga Kardailsky, S. Prost, Stephen A. Wilcox, D. Addison, A. Thompson, J. Kalolo, Andrew C. Clarke, E. Matisoo-Smith","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2021.1901805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1901805","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Tokelau is a remote archipelago of atolls in western Polynesia, located approximately 500 km north of Samoa. It is thought to have been settled as part of the Austronesian expansion(s). However, its exact role in this population dispersal is not completely understood. Here we describe the results of complete mitochondrial genome sequencing for both the current inhabitants and ancient individuals from the archipelago in addition to an assessment of Y-chromosome diversity among the present population. We find relatively little genetic diversity compared with other western Polynesian populations, most likely due to historically reported bottleneck events. However, the presence of rare mitochondrial lineages hints at prehistoric occupation by peoples from the northwest (e.g., Tuvalu and Micronesia). Ancient DNA data from Atafu, the northernmost Tokelauan atoll, is further consistent with abandonment and later resettlement of the island from a Samoan or Samoan-derived source population. Moreover, the ancient and modern mitogenomes also suggest links with other atoll populations in the western Pacific.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122139093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru 公元前2000年秘鲁北部海岸格拉马洛特的鲨鱼渔业

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1910386

Gabriel Prieto

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The Kalvestene: A reevaluation of the ship settings on the Danish island of Hjarnø Kalvestene:对丹麦hjarnoø岛上的船只设置的重新评估

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-04-23 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1900955

E. Sebo, C. Wiseman, J. Mccarthy, P. Baggaley, K. Jerbić, J. Benjamin

{"title":"The Kalvestene: A reevaluation of the ship settings on the Danish island of Hjarnø","authors":"E. Sebo, C. Wiseman, J. Mccarthy, P. Baggaley, K. Jerbić, J. Benjamin","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2021.1900955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1900955","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The ship setting site on the island of Hjarnø, known as the Kalvestene (“the calf stones”), is a grave field made up of ten small ship settings dating to the Viking Age. Although it is a comparatively small site, textual evidence suggests that, surprisingly, the Kalvestene were well-known, at least in some parts of medieval Scandinavia. The site is unusual among Danish grave fields in that all the settings are ship shaped, with no surviving circle, oval, or triangle settings, mounds, or other monument types. It has been assumed that this anomaly is due to natural erosion and anthropogenic intervention because Ole Worm’s 1650 description and drawing of the site indicates there were once more than twenty settings, including circle settings. This article reconsiders that assumption using a range of interdisciplinary approaches and evidence. It critically analyzes medieval and early modern written records and surveys previous studies of this site (including those unpublished), offers a reinterpretation of geophysical data alongside aerial photogrammetric and LiDAR data, and presents the results of our survey of the Kalvestene. In particular, we aim to answer three questions: how accurate is Worm's study? How do the ship settings at Hjarnø compare to other Danish ship settings? And, why were the Kalvestene famous?","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121316666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Study of dugout canoes from the coast of La Plata River and the islands of the Paraná Delta, Argentina 阿根廷拉普拉塔河沿岸和帕拉纳<e:1>三角洲岛屿的独木舟研究

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-04-22 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1900954

M. Bonomo, R. S. Ramos

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Obsidian in prehistoric complexes of the southern Kurile islands (the Russian Far East): A review of sources, their exploitation, and population movements 南千岛群岛(俄罗斯远东)史前建筑群中的黑曜石:来源、开采和人口流动的回顾

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-04-22 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1904061

Y. Kuzmin, O. Yanshina, A. Grebennikov

{"title":"Obsidian in prehistoric complexes of the southern Kurile islands (the Russian Far East): A review of sources, their exploitation, and population movements","authors":"Y. Kuzmin, O. Yanshina, A. Grebennikov","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2021.1904061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1904061","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Obsidian provenance studies in the southern Kuriles (Kunashir and Iturup islands), part of the insular Russian Far East, are reviewed and summarized for the first time. The sites analyzed belong to the Jomon (ca. 7300–2500 BP), Epi-Jomon (ca. 2500–1400 BP), and Okhotsk (ca. 1400–800 BP) cultural complexes, with particular attention given to the well-studied Yankito 2 site. The main sources of high-quality volcanic glass for the southern Kuriles were on the neighboring Hokkaido Island—Oketo and Shirataki (ca. 140–390 km away). The presence of obsidian at an Epi-Jomon site on southern Kunashir Island originating from remote sources on the Kamchatka Peninsula ca. 1290–1440 km away is an important contribution to understanding the prehistoric contacts and population dispersals that occurred within insular Northeast Asia. This is also supported by paleoanthropological and DNA data from Epi-Jomon human remains on Iturup, showing similarities with native Kamchatkan populations. The use of boats in the southern Kuriles is evident from the beginning of colonization, ca. 7300–7100 BP given that islands were not connected after the Early Holocene due to sea level rise. It is clear that seafaring was an important part of human activities throughout the entire island chain since the Epi-Jomon, ca. 2500 BP. Because the Kurile Islands were one of the most probable migration routes between Northeast Asia (i.e., Japan) and Northeastern Siberia and North America, study of the human colonization of the Kuriles has wider implication for the northeastern part of Eurasia as a gateway to the Americas.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130563168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell 基于模型的岛屿考古学研究方法的前提和潜力:对特雷尔的回应

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-04-21 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1904463

T. Leppard, R. DiNapoli, J. Cherry, Kristina G. Douglass, J. Erlandson, T. Hunt, P. Kirch, C. Lipo, S. O’Connor, S. P. Birch, T. Rick, Timothy M. Rieth, Jillian A. Swift

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Coastal foraging on the West Coast of South Africa in the midst of mid-Holocene climate change 全新世中期气候变化中南非西海岸的沿海觅食

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2021.1893869

A. Jerardino

{"title":"Coastal foraging on the West Coast of South Africa in the midst of mid-Holocene climate change","authors":"A. Jerardino","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2021.1893869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1893869","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The mid-Holocene (ca. 8200–4200 cal BP) brought about important climatic changes and environmental shifts to land and coastal systems, globally. Many of the human groups existing at that time were affected in various degrees by such important modifications to their foraging areas, including shorelines. Higher sea-levels (+1–3 m) were a prominent factor reshaping coastal landscapes and thus affecting coastal foraging in one or more ways. Hot and dry weather and relatively higher sea levels along the central west coast of South Africa impacted substantially on local coastal hunter-gatherer groups. These challenges were thought once to have been unsurmountable because of an apparent absence of sites dated to this period. Recently dated mid-Holocene assemblages allow us to gain insight into coastal resource procurement and overall subsistence, and also to derive more detailed coastal paleoecological data. The results show a predominantly terrestrial diet, while shellfish collection persisted amid prevailing environmental factors affecting mussel growth by supplementing their reduced mollusk takes with additional prey. Sizeable crustaceans were also procured in relatively large numbers in some localities, but not in all. This is the most-up-to date mid-Holocene subsistence record for the central west coast of South Africa which, apart from reconstructing changes in procurement strategies, reveals a trajectory of persistence in the face of climate change.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123818440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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