CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL最新文献

Inequality at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: The Case of Başur Höyük, a ‘Royal’ Cemetery at the Margins of the Mesopotamian World

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774324000398

David Wengrow, Brenna Hassett, Haluk Sağlamtimur, William Marsh, Selina Brace, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, Emma L. Baysal, Metin Batıhan, İnan Aydoğan, Öznur Özmen Batıhan, Ian Barnes

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The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325000071

Roope O. Kaaronen, Allison K. Henrich, Mikael A. Manninen, Matthew J. Walsh, Isobel Wisher, Jussi T. Eronen, Felix Riede

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Death and Depths: Exploring Early Fifth Millennium bce Ritual Performance in Har Sifsof Cave, Upper Galilee (Israel)

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325000022

Micka Ullman, Hila May, Shemesh Ya'aran, Boaz Langford, Israel Hershkovitz, Liron Chavoinik, Nimrod Marom, Dariya Lokshin Gnezdilov, Amos Frumkin, Uri Davidovich

{"title":"Death and Depths: Exploring Early Fifth Millennium bce Ritual Performance in Har Sifsof Cave, Upper Galilee (Israel)","authors":"Micka Ullman, Hila May, Shemesh Ya'aran, Boaz Langford, Israel Hershkovitz, Liron Chavoinik, Nimrod Marom, Dariya Lokshin Gnezdilov, Amos Frumkin, Uri Davidovich","doi":"10.1017/s0959774325000022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774325000022","url":null,"abstract":"Exploring and using remote segments of complex karst systems represents the incorporation of one of the wildest and most demanding natural environments into the cultural fabric of Neolithic-Chalcolithic village-based communities in the Levant. The unique preservation of an early fifth-millennium bce activity phase in Har Sifsof Cave in northern Israel allows for a detailed investigation of an early case of human interaction with the deep underground in this region. The study of archaeological assemblages, environmental and speleological data and spatial distribution of cultural remains form the basis for interpreting the activity inside the cave in the context of fertility cults. The rituals conducted in Har Sifsof Cave revolve around the agricultural cycle of cereal grains and include the interment of multiple individuals, some of whom were buried in remote cul-de-sac passages. The emergence of complex caves as favourable off-settlement arenas dedicated to ritual activity during the later stages of Neolithization marks a conscious effort of ‘domestication’ of these unique wildscapes, while sowing the seeds for the enduring connection observed in later Levantine societies between mortuary rituals, fertility and the underground.","PeriodicalId":47164,"journal":{"name":"CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143560705","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}

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Codes in the Making. A New Appraisal of Neolithic Imagery in Southwest Asia

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774324000337

Mattia Cartolano, Silvia Ferrara

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Unveiling Materiality: Investigating Cuneiform Tablet Production Tradition in Egypt through Amarna Tablets

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325000101

Jana Mynářová

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Generational Memory Loss within Imperial Systems: An Archaeological Case Study from the Roman Empire

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774324000325

Thomas Matthews Boehmer

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Story-writing Workshops as Archaeological Interventions: Local Perceptions of Galapagos Marine Plastic Litter

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325000095

Estelle Praet, Anne Guézou

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‘Out-of-time’ Objects: Commemorating and Forgetting Traditions through Bronze Age Metalwork in Southern Britain

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325000034

Matthew G. Knight

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Mortality Salience and the Treatment of the Dead in Messenia, from the Middle Helladic to the Late Helladic Period

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325000010

Claire Zikidi

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Entheotopos. On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning Sacred Landscapes Creation in Ancient Egypt

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774324000386

Antonio Muñoz Herrera

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