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Scrutinizing Kinship and Biological Relatedness Through the Lens of Palaeogenomics 从古基因组学的角度审视亲缘关系和生物亲缘关系

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-04-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774326100432

Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim, Jennifer Raff

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Commentary: Leaning In to Kinship Trouble 评论：向亲属关系的麻烦倾斜

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-04-14 DOI: 10.1017/s095977432610047x

Emma Kowal

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The Tie That Binds Us? Challenging the Primacy of DNA in Kinship Studies and Re-Centring Community in Defining Human Connections across Time 捆绑我们的纽带？挑战DNA在亲属关系研究中的首要地位，重新定义跨时间的人际关系的社区中心

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-04-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774326100444

Hannah M. Moots, Krystal S. Tsosie, Mehmet Somel

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Kinship Trouble: What, When, Where, Why, and How—and So What? 亲属关系问题：什么，何时，何地，为什么，如何——那又怎样？

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-04-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774326100389

Sabina Cveček, Maanasa Raghavan, Penny Bickle

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Landscapes of Pre-Hispanic Andean Kinship: Ancestors, Ayllus and Relationality 前西班牙裔安第斯亲缘关系的景观：祖先，Ayllus和关系

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-04-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774326100456

Beth K. Scaffidi

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Ethnographic Landscape of the Last Danubian Neolithic Communities in the Polish Lowlands (4350–4000 bce ): A Case Study of Two Neighbouring Villages 波兰低地最后多瑙河新石器时代社区的民族志景观（公元前4350-4000年）：两个相邻村庄的案例研究

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-04-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774326100535

Kalina Więcaszek, Lech Czerniak, Joanna Pyzel

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The Transcontextual Process—Materials, Objects, and Their Changing Meanings Across Contexts 跨语境过程——材料、对象及其在不同语境中的意义变化

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-04-07 DOI: 10.1017/s095977432610050x

Rowan S. English

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Times of Execution, Transit and Use of the Palaeolithic Rock Art of the Cave of Altamira (Cantabria, Spain): A Case Study 阿尔塔米拉洞穴（坎塔布里亚，西班牙）旧石器时代岩石艺术的执行、运输和使用：一个案例研究

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-04-06 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774326100511

Álvaro Ibero, Marcos García-Diez, Blanca Ochoa Fraile, Alfredo Prada Freixedo, Lucía M. Díaz-González, Carmen De Las Heras Martín, Déborah Ordás Pastrana, Paula López Calle, M. Elena Sánchez-Moral, Eudald Carbonell, Pilar Fatás Monforte

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A Beacon of Home: Struthio camelus and the Parameters of Humanity in Southern African Hunter-gatherer Lifeways 家的灯塔：非洲南部狩猎采集者生活方式中的斯特鲁西奥·骆驼和人性的参数

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-03-27 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774326100547

Andrew Skinner

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Pioneers in Animate Landscapes: Situating Rock Art in the Colonization Process of Northern Norway 先驱在动画景观：定位岩石艺术在挪威北部的殖民过程

IF 1.2 2区历史学

CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0959774326100493

Charlotte Damm, Jan Magne Gjerde

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