Journal of World Prehistory最新文献

{"title":"From Moments to Histories: A Social Archaeology of the Mesolithic?","authors":"Graeme Warren","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9121-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9121-3","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution will provide a critical overview of the other papers within this special issue of <i>Journal of World Prehistory</i> (Elliott and Little 2018), identifying key aspects of the discussion and assessing potentials and problems in the development of Mesolithic archaeology in Britain and Ireland as a whole since 2006 (Conneller and Warren in Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New approaches, Stroud, Tempus, 2006a). Reflections will include how the contribution of very high-resolution analyses to Mesolithic archaeology has changed since 2006 and the scale of our interpretations. The review will also identify areas which appear to be falling from analytical focus, including the role of analogies in Mesolithic archaeology and the nature of power and social relationships in Mesolithic communities.","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"53 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Being Ritual in Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: Identifying Ritual Behaviour Within an Ephemeral Material Record","authors":"E. Blinkhorn, Aimée Little","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9120-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9120-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"31 1","pages":"403 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10963-018-9120-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49663006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Living Mesolithic Time: Narratives, Chronologies and Organic Material Culture","authors":"Ben Elliott, Seren Griffiths","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9119-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9119-x","url":null,"abstract":"British and Irish Mesolithic studies have long been characterized by a reliance on broad-scale lithic typologies, both to provide chronologies, and in discussion of ‘cultural’ groups. More recently, traditional narrative structures—period definitions of ‘Early’ and ‘Late’, or culture typologies—have been complemented by a host of other evidence. This has included new studies of site stratigraphy, evidence for seasonality, and material culture <i>chaîne opératoire</i> chronologies, which place a greater emphasis on both temporal precision and the lived experiences of Mesolithic peoples. This paper will consider how the study of organic artefacts forces these narrative scales into acute focus, and presents an opportunity to explore the challenges in synthesizing different forms of data. We discuss how the evidence from sites in Ireland and Britain allows for new approaches, and highlight some of the challenges that this evidence presents, not least the perennial issue of moving from site-specific data to broader narratives. While the nature of earlier prehistoric evidence makes this an especially obvious issue for Mesolithic studies, it is one which generally besets archaeology. We suggest that in order to move beyond this in earlier prehistoric studies specifically, we need to make better use of all evidence sources, however seemingly prosaic, including antiquarian collections in museums, and chance and casual finds. Only by including the raft of available data, and recognizing its utility beyond the sum of individual apparently uninspiring parts, can we begin to move from generalizing narratives to more nuanced archaeological understandings of past material worlds.","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"53 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Approaches to Interpreting Mesolithic Mobility and Settlement in Britain and Ireland","authors":"Paul Richard Preston, Thomas Kador","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9118-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9118-y","url":null,"abstract":"The Mesolithic communities of northwest Europe have generally been considered inherently mobile, and all the material evidence associated with them has been interpreted accordingly. This has resulted in entrenched, theoretically polemical and largely hypothetical mobility models, focusing on seasonal rounds and extraction activities. However, recent reanalyses of the ethnographic sources, and discoveries of both substantial and ephemeral Mesolithic structures, as well as new data from recent innovative lithic and scientific analyses (including DNA, isotope research on human remains, and geochemical analyses of lithic artefacts), have forced us to rethink the rather static models of Mesolithic mobility strategies. This paper, examining Mesolithic hunter-gatherer mobility and settlement models from Britain and Ireland, is part of that reassessment. In particular, it assesses the impact of the multiple lines of consilience on our understanding of Mesolithic habitation of landscapes. These include the archaeological evidence and the efficacy of recent theoretical and methodological approaches that have been employed to interpret it.","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"54 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Danube Corridor Hypothesis and the Carpathian Basin: Geological, Environmental and Archaeological Approaches to Characterizing Aurignacian Dynamics","authors":"Wei Chu","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9115-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9115-1","url":null,"abstract":"Early Upper Paleolithic sites in the Danube catchment have been put forward as evidence that the river was an important conduit for modern humans during their initial settlement of Europe. Central to this model is the Carpathian Basin, a region covering most of the Middle Danube. As the archaeological record of this region is still poorly understood, this paper aims to provide a contextual assessment of the Carpathian Basin’s geological and paleoenvironmental archives, starting with the late Upper Pleistocene. Subsequently, it compiles early Upper Paleolithic data from the region to provide a synchronic appraisal of the Aurignacian archaeological evidence. It then uses this data to test whether the relative absence of early Upper Paleolithic sites is obscured by a taphonomic bias. Finally, it reviews current knowledge of the Carpathian Basin’s archaeological record and concludes that, while it cannot reject the Danube corridor hypothesis, further (geo)archaeological work is required to understand the link between the Carpathian Basin and Central and Southeastern Europe.","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humans in the Environment: Plants, Animals and Landscapes in Mesolithic Britain and Ireland","authors":"Nicholas Overton, B. Taylor","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9116-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9116-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"31 1","pages":"385 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10963-018-9116-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52463783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultural, Demographic and Environmental Dynamics of the Copper and Early Bronze Age in Iberia (3300–1500 BC): Towards an Interregional Multiproxy Comparison at the Time of the 4.2 ky BP Event","authors":"A. Blanco-González, K. Lillios, J. López‐Sáez, B. Drake","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9113-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9113-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"31 1","pages":"1 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10963-018-9113-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52463730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assembling the Dead, Gathering the Living: Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Modelling for Copper Age Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain).","authors":"Leonardo García Sanjuán,&nbsp;Juan Manuel Vargas Jiménez,&nbsp;Luis Miguel Cáceres Puro,&nbsp;Manuel Eleazar Costa Caramé,&nbsp;Marta Díaz-Guardamino Uribe,&nbsp;Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla,&nbsp;Álvaro Fernández Flores,&nbsp;Víctor Hurtado Pérez,&nbsp;Pedro M López Aldana,&nbsp;Elena Méndez Izquierdo,&nbsp;Ana Pajuelo Pando,&nbsp;Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal,&nbsp;David Wheatley,&nbsp;Christopher Bronk Ramsey,&nbsp;Antonio Delgado-Huertas,&nbsp;Elaine Dunbar,&nbsp;Adrián Mora González,&nbsp;Alex Bayliss,&nbsp;Nancy Beavan,&nbsp;Derek Hamilton,&nbsp;Alasdair Whittle","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9114-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9114-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The great site of Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville in the lower Guadalquivir valley of southwest Spain, is presented in the context of debate about the nature of Copper Age society in southern Iberia as a whole. Many aspects of the layout, use, character and development of Valencina remain unclear, just as there are major unresolved questions about the kind of society represented there and in southern Iberia, from the late fourth to the late third millennium cal BC. This paper discusses 178 radiocarbon dates, from 17 excavated sectors within the c. 450 ha site, making it the best dated in later Iberian prehistory as a whole. Dates are modelled in a Bayesian statistical framework. The resulting formal date estimates provide the basis for both a new epistemological approach to the site and a much more detailed narrative of its development than previously available. Beginning in the 32nd century cal BC, a long-lasting tradition of simple, mainly collective and often successive burial was established at the site. Mud-vaulted tholoi appear to belong to the 29th or 28th centuries cal BC; large stone-vaulted tholoi such as La Pastora appear to date later in the sequence. There is plenty of evidence for a wide range of other activity, but no clear sign of permanent, large-scale residence or public buildings or spaces. Results in general support a model of increasingly competitive but ultimately unstable social relations, through various phases of emergence, social competition, display and hierarchisation, and eventual decline, over a period of c. 900 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"31 2","pages":"179-313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10963-018-9114-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36275444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early North African Cattle Domestication and Its Ecological Setting: A Reassessment","authors":"Michael Brass","doi":"10.1007/s10963-017-9112-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-017-9112-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"31 1","pages":"81 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10963-017-9112-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52463705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mass Migration and the Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand","authors":"Richard Walter, Hallie Buckley, Chris Jacomb, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith","doi":"10.1007/s10963-017-9110-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-017-9110-y","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reintroduces the concept of mass migration into debates concerning the timing and nature of New Zealand’s settlement by Polynesians. Upward revisions of New Zealand’s chronology show that the appearance of humans on the landscape occurred extremely rapidly, and that within decades settlements had been established across the full range of climatic zones. We show that the rapid appearance of a strong archaeological signature in the early 14th century AD is the result of a mass migration event, not the consequence of gradual demographic growth out of a currently unidentified earlier phase of settlement. Mass migration is not only consistent with the archaeological record but is supported by recent findings in molecular biology and genetics. It also opens the door to a new phase of engagement between archaeological method and indigenous Maori and Polynesian oral history and tradition.","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"54 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}