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Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove 在博克斯格罗夫，转弯边缘，Tranchet和社会信号

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100152

Ceri Shipton, Frederick Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Mathieu Leroyer, Nick Ashton, Mark White

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Archaeology as Worldbuilding 作为世界建筑的考古学

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100164

Colleen Morgan

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Naturalizing the Normative: Cosmology, Ontogenesis and the Emergence of Ritual Communities in Southern Roman Britain 规范的自然化：南罗马不列颠的宇宙学、个体发生和仪式社区的出现

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100188

Sahal Abdi

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Superstitious Beliefs in the Necropolises of the Huelva Coast: Peculiarities of the Premature Death of Children, Outcasts and Women 韦尔瓦海岸墓地的迷信信仰：儿童、弃儿和妇女过早死亡的特点

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100048

Lucía Fernández Sutilo

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What is a ‘Giant’ Handaxe? Ergonomic Thresholds, Functional Impacts and Acheulean Social Signalling Potential 什么是“巨型”手斧？人体工程学阈值，功能影响和阿舍利社会信号潜能

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100127

Alastair Key, Stephen J. Lycett, John A. J. Gowlett

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Bronze Age Matting from the Heights of Vésztő-Mágor, Hungary 来自匈牙利Vésztő-Mágor高地的青铜时代席子

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100176

Paul R. Duffy, Karina Grömer, Kayleigh Saunderson, Tim Schroedter, William A. Parkinson, William P. Ridge, Ashley Lingle, Jerrod Seifert, Danielle J. Riebe, Georgia Tsartsidou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Attila Gyucha

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Towards Ontological Alterity in the Nordic Bronze Age? Perspectives from Ornamented Personal Objects 走向北欧青铜时代的本体论另类？从装饰的个人物品透视

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-08-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100036

Laura Ahlqvist

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The Archaeology of Forgetting, the Dorset, and Arctic Antiquity 遗忘考古学、多塞特考古学和北极考古学

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-08-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100061

Donald H. Holly Jr, T. Max Friesen

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Animals, Ancestors, and the Others: Weaving Geographic Distance into Pre-Hispanic Andean Mortuary Landscapes in Early Intermediate Period to Middle Horizon (c. 100 bce–750 ce) Southern Peru 动物、祖先和其他：秘鲁南部早期中期至中期（公元前100年-公元前750年）前西班牙裔安第斯山脉墓地景观的地理距离

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100085

Beth K. Scaffidi, Gwyneth Gordon, Kelly J. Knudson

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Christianity in the Rock Art of Australia and Chile 澳大利亚和智利岩石艺术中的基督教

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325100103

Sally K. May, Andrés Troncoso, Sam Harper, Joakim Goldhahn

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