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Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions 解释已知的过去路线、确定不足和多重成本函数的使用

IF 2.3 1区历史学

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09621-w

Joseph Lewis

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Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven 世界中心神殿的盛宴:古民族植物学和木阵土炉的微观形态学研究

IF 2.3 1区历史学

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09620-x

Andrew W. Weiland, Laura J. Crawford, Bret J. Ruby, Matthew P. Purtill

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Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors 岩石艺术绘画分类:环境与技术因素的作用

IF 2.3 1区历史学

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09619-4

I. L. Ozán, S. Oriolo, Lucía Gutiérrez, Analía Castro Esnal, A. Latorre, M. A. Castro, Alejandra Fazio

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Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics 狩猎者-采集者种群的扩张与强化：马尔萨斯和博塞鲁动力学

IF 2.3 1区历史学

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09617-6

Jacob Freeman, R. Mauldin, R. Hard, Kristina Solis, M. Whisenhunt, John M. Anderies

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Fuzzy Typological (Re)arrangement: a Prototype of Rethinking the Typology of Roman Tablewares from Sagalassos, Southwest Anatolia 模糊的类型学（重新）安排：反思安纳托利亚西南萨加拉索斯罗马餐具类型学的原型

IF 2.3 1区历史学

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09614-9

Danai Kafetzaki, J. Poblome, J. Aerts

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Determining the Postmortem Timing of Sharp Force Damage and the Pre-burning Condition of Burnt Bone 确定死后锐器损伤的时间和烧焦骨头的预烧状态

IF 2.3 1区历史学

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09615-8

Emese I. Végh, N. Márquez-Grant, R. Schulting

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Notational Sequences Theory from Its Introduction to Present Day 符号序列理论从诞生到今天

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09616-7

A. Castelli

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James Matthew Skibo, 1960–2023: a Personal Remembrance 詹姆斯·马修·斯基博，1960-2023:个人回忆

IF 2.3 1区历史学

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09618-5

M. Schiffer

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The Beginning of the End: Abandonment Micro-histories in the Mississippian Vacant Quarter 结束的开始：密西西比州空置区的废弃微观历史

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09613-w

Charles R. Cobb, Anthony M. Krus, Aaron Deter-Wolf, Kevin E. Smith, Edmond A. Boudreaux, Brad R. Lieb

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Original Design and Allometric Variation in Kirk Points of the Central Ohio Archaeological Digitization Survey 俄亥俄州中部考古数字化调查柯克点的原始设计和异速变异

IF 2.3 1区历史学

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09612-x

Michael J. Shott, Kevin C. Nolan, Eric Olson

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