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{"title":"Iza Romanowska, Colin D. Wren and Stefani A. Crabtree. Agent-Based Modelling for Archaeology: Simulating the Complexity of Society (Santa Fe: The Santa Fe Institute Press. 2021. xiii and 429 pp., numerous illustr., pbk, ISBN 978-1-947864-25-2)","authors":"M. Vander Linden","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.33","url":null,"abstract":"picture of technological knowledge and the organization of society. It does not imply social inequality, but the importance of cooperation is clearly visible. Vincǎ communities may have passed on their technological knowledge, and this flow of information is reconstructed in the direction of the Kodžadermen-GumelniţaKaranovo VI communities in present-day Bulgaria. From this point on, the task of future research is to reconstruct how this technological knowledge survives or is transformed in the next period after the abrupt end of the Vincǎ culture. After all, the period after 4450 cal BC is the heyday of the mass production of copper artefacts, with extensive formal variety. However, not enough is known about the communities of this period in present-day Serbia. We also know little about how the knowledge of metallurgical technology was integrated into the life of communities Bulgaria during the same period. Overall, the result is an impressive and convincing volume that will be indispensable in the following decades for research into the Neolithic and Copper Age of southeast Europe, as well as the beginnings of metallurgy. I am sure that Borislav Jovanovic,́ to whom this volume was dedicated, would read it with appreciation. REFERENCES","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56553249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reviewing the Classics","authors":"Martin Furholt","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.34","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44484110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Max D. Price. Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 320 pp., b/w illustr., hbk, ISBN: 9780197543276)","authors":"Veronica Aniceti","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.36","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41493412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EAA volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.37","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45922696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Marcia-Anne Dobres. Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, xiii and 300pp, 25 figures, hbk, ISBN 1577181239)","authors":"Tove Hjørungdal","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.35","url":null,"abstract":"that is, it hardly reached the embodiment of the crucial connections studied. We need to consider that the book was published in a time, the 1990s and early 2000s, when technology studies 558 European Journal of Archaeology 25 (4) 2022","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56553433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"C. Frieman","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.31","url":null,"abstract":"In ten days, I’ll be on a plane to Europe to join many of you at the EAA annual conference in person for the first time since we met in Bern in 2019. I’ve missed seeing so many friends and colleagues in person, but I also know that the accessibility of hybrid conferences to lower income and disabled archaeologists as well as those with caring responsibilities is not something we want to lose. There is also the environmental impact of people like me flying around the world for a conference, and that is no small thing. If there’s one lesson to learn from the past two years (and there are, of course, many more than one), it’s that just because something has always been done in a given way, that’s not necessarily the only or the best way. As we face the effects of climate change head on, flexibility, community support, and the power to imagine and work towards a better world are some of our strongest virtues. In this issue of the European Journal of Archaeology we feature six articles and five book reviews. The articles this issue have a strong prehistoric focus but also include an important quantitative analysis of early medieval dietary changes and the reviews are extremely diverse, ranging from Bronze Age metallurgy to analytical methods. These include two further reviews in our special ‘Reviewing the Classics’ section. Januszek and colleagues start this issue with a topic near and dear to my heart: third millennium BC lithic technology. They apply a variety of macroscopic and microscopic analyses to 24 ground flint arrowheads from Suprasĺ 3 in north-eastern Poland to explore the unique chaîne opératoire and the significance of these pieces. This analysis is further nuanced as the arrowheads themselves are from ritual contexts. They connect these arrowheads to innovative practices by people on the periphery of the Bell Beaker world. This sort of creative reinterpretation is increasingly recognized as a special feature of communities in margins or frontier zones, and the arrowheads presented here neatly support the model. Instead of identifying a new type of grave, Brück and Booth return to a very wellstudied assemblage of British Bronze Age burials with new methods to ask: what if these burials don’t represent a single moment in time? Building on a major radiocarbon dating campaign as well as histological and contextual analysis, they argue that some individuals seem to have been buried one or more generations after death. This implies a period during which human remains circulated in the community, perhaps remaining somewhat ‘alive’ in a social sense; and it further calls into question our attempts to understand individual identity through the analysis of grave goods. Schaefer-Di Maida also offers a re-evaluation of a known type of Bronze Age site, in this case the so-called ‘cooking stone pits’ from northern Europe. These pits of fire-cracked stones vary in size, shape, layout, and age. A function in food preparation or European Journal of Archa","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48012594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wreckage Installation: Towards an Archaeology of Southern Sweden's Heterotopias","authors":"Leila Papoli-Yazdi, W. Hogland","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.44","url":null,"abstract":"During a survey on the island of Öland in south-eastern Sweden, whose aim was to study the local waste-disposal practices, the authors recorded abandoned machinery and cars dating from the 1940s to today in locations close to residential areas and farms, and complemented the investigation by interviewing informants. This led them to conclude that dumping redundant objects in the surroundings of villages forms an entangled network with other behaviour, i.e. collecting things which had outlived their usefulness and embedding them in the landscape. The behaviour observed in Öland is compared with two other cases of collecting abandoned objects in Öland and southern Sweden. Using the location and chronology of the finds, the authors interpret the behaviour by borrowing the concept of heterotopia, as defined by Foucault.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48727491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing Archaeology and Museology in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and Greece: Théodore Macridy, an Ottoman Greek ‘Liminal Scientist’","authors":"I. N. Grigoriadis","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.45","url":null,"abstract":"This article concerns the development of archaeology and museology, in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and Greece, through the life and career of Théodore Macridy. Macridy participated in knowledge transfer in more than one discipline and more than one country. Through his links with Western academic circles in archaeology and museology, he made a significant contribution to their development in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and Greece. Living between the Ottoman and Greek epistemic communities as an Ottoman citizen of Greek origin, he excavated numerous sites of the Ottoman Empire, worked at the Ottoman Imperial Museum, and contributed to the foundation of the Benaki Museum in Athens at the end of his career. This makes him a good example of an Ottoman Greek scholar whose liminal identity led to his relative neglect in both Greek and Turkish archaeology and museology.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41597742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Neolithic Boom-and-Bust to Iron Age Peak and Decline: Population and Settlement Dynamics in Southern Sweden Inferred from Summed Radiocarbon Dates","authors":"B. Friman, P. Lagerås","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.43","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents 6637 radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites in southernmost Sweden, from 9000 cal bc to the present. Based on summed probability distributions (SPDs) of the calibrated radiocarbon dates, the authors consider long-term trends in settlement and human population. Most dates are from the fertile and densely populated plains of south-western Scania, but coastal lowlands and forested uplands are also represented, allowing for a discussion of the relationship between central and peripheral areas. The authors distinguish between different types of archaeological contexts and features and between different types of dated material, so as to better understand the processes behind population and settlement change. They highlight three periods and phenomena revealed by the SPDs: a strong population increase at the onset of the Neolithic (4000–3700 cal bc), followed by a sharp decline; a steady and long-lasting expansion from the Early Bronze Age to the Roman Iron Age (1500 cal bc–cal ad 200); and a decrease in the Nordic Late Iron Age (seventh century ad), particularly in recently colonized upland areas. The SPDs presented provide a new framework for archaeology in southern Sweden and offer an empirical basis for discussion of long-term trends in settlement and population development.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46936345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconstructing the Biography of Children's Stone Bracers in the Iberian Peninsula","authors":"Rosa Barroso Bermejo, Francisco Martínez-Sevilla, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Barbero, Ó. Cambra‐Moo, P. Bueno-Ramírez, Juan Manuel Rojas Rodríguez-Malo","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.39","url":null,"abstract":"Perforated stone plaques, known as bracers, are found across late prehistoric Europe and many of them have been recovered in Bell Beaker funerary contexts, usually associated with adult individuals. Experimental, technological, and use-wear studies have determined that the bracers were both utilitarian and symbolic objects. Very few are found in children's graves, but examples are known in the Iberian Peninsula, two of which are presented here. The analyses conducted on the two bracers, including archaeological contextualization, raw material identification, and technological and use-wear studies, allow the authors to reconstruct their respective biographies. Although these pieces were associated with young children, they had long lives before their final deposition in the graves. Use-wear marks on one of the bracers suggest that it was used in archery, despite its small size.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48312379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}