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{"title":"Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape","authors":"Jessi J. Halligan","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2022.2077826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2022.2077826","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Archaeological data have demonstrated that modern Florida was occupied by at least 14,550 years ago, but evidence of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene peoples (ca. 14,600–8,000 cal B.P.) is limited to far inland and upland settings, as more than half of Florida’s peninsula was drowned between ca. 21,000–6,000 cal B.P. Rising aquifer levels of the Late Pleistocene allowed some interior sites to preserve within forming river channels, especially some springfed sinkholes that became the Aucilla River of northwest Florida. Terrestrial sites are poorly preserved in comparison, containing stone tools in mixed and/or undateable stratigraphy. Geospatial analysis of the 92 early sites in the Aucilla basin demonstrates that the underwater sites are crucial to provide a more robust understanding of early people, as the earliest sites are found only underwater, and the preponderance of the multicomponent sites also are inundated.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"54 1","pages":"122 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45868624","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}

{"title":"Inundated cultural landscapes: an introduction","authors":"J. Conolly, I. Ward","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2022.2114680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2022.2114680","url":null,"abstract":"Archaeologists have known for more than a century that fluctuating sea levels have repeatedly exposed and flooded coastal landscapes (e.g. Lubbock 1913: Figure 255). However, it is only within the last few decades that we have more fully explored the potential that inundated landscapes possess for broadening our understanding of cultural land use, settlement and early coastal adaptations. Examples are abundant, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere (Sturt et al. 2018), with pioneering work in the North Sea’s ‘Doggerland’ (Gaffney, Fitch, and Smith 2009; see also Gaffney and Fitch 2022 for an up-to-date summary), the Baltic (Bailey and Jöns 2020), the Gulf of Mexico (Faught and Gusick 2011) and across the Red Sea Basin (Bailey et al. 2007). However, inundated cultural landscapes are present not just along coastlines but include marine and freshwater wetlands, lakes, river deltas, and other waterways (e.g. Coleman 2008; Fedje and Josenhans 2000; Halligan 2021; Puckett 2021). While the scope of research has broadened beyond its original focus on coastal systems, the study of inundated cultural landscapes remains principally concerned with the identification, characterization and interpretation of formerly inhabited terrestrial settings that, due to natural or anthropogenically-driven shoreline transgression, are now underwater. With these broad goals in mind, this volume builds on an existing body of knowledge to present new and varied studies on inundated cultural landscapes (ICL), highlighting what they can reveal about changing approaches and perspectives on this theme.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"54 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41628947","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}

{"title":"Re-evaluating terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene settlement patterns with Chirp subbottom data from around California’s Northern Channel Islands","authors":"T. Braje, J. Maloney, Amy E. Gusick, J. Erlandson, S. Klotsko","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2022.2077825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2022.2077825","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT California’s Northern Channel Islands contain an incredible record of terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation. Since the hunter-gatherer-fishers who created these sites relied heavily on marine resources, a critical aspect of understanding early settlement patterns is calculating distance to paleoshorelines. This has traditionally been accomplished using sea-level curves and bathymetric models that do not account for sediment deposited offshore after inundation by rising seas. Here, we use high-resolution Chirp subbottom data to re-evaluate distance to paleoshorelines at two terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene site clusters on the Northern Channel Islands and identify significant differences between the methods. Our results suggest that Chirp subbottom surveys offer more accurate reconstructions of ancient shorelines than bathymetric modelling and can produce more accurate reconstructions of ancient settlement patterns of terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene peoples along coastal and island environments around the world.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"54 1","pages":"107 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43311873","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}

{"title":"Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise","authors":"P. Nunn, M. Cook","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2022.2077821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2022.2077821","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In many long-enduring coastal cultures, there are stories – sometimes mythologized – about times when pieces of land became separated from mainlands by submergence, a process that created islands where none existed before. Using examples from northwest Europe and Australia, this paper argues that many such stories recall times, often millennia ago, when sea level in the aftermath of the Last Glaciation (last ice age) was rising and transforming coastal landscapes and their human uses in exactly the ways these stories describe. The possibility that these may have arisen from eyewitness accounts of these transformative processes, hitherto thought to be understandable only by scientific (palaeoenvironmental) reconstructions, should encourage more systematic investigations of such stories by scientists. It also suggests that science has traditionally underestimated the capacity of oral (pre-literate) cultures to acquire, encode and sustain their observations of memorable events with a high degree of replication fidelity.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"54 1","pages":"29 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44986428","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}

{"title":"Digging up concrescences: a hermeneutics for process archaeology","authors":"S. Gallagher","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2021.1993990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1993990","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I build on the process philosophy of Whitehead and on enactive approachs to hermeneutics, to suggest that if we want to conceive of archaeological practice in terms of a process archaeology, then rather than characterizing it as ‘digging up the past’, it is better to think of it as digging up concrescences. From the perspective of enactive hermeneutics, no artifact (from past or present) is a completely determinate matter of fact; its meaning is enacted in an ecology of practices, and should be understood as part of a dynamical network (of uses and beliefs) that changes when viewed from different perspectives. To the extent that an artifact retains an affordancerelated meaning, whether original or new, it remains a concrescence and is never reducible to a determinate matter of fact.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44353922","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}

{"title":"The emergence of infrastructure in later prehistory: technique, wonder, and convergence","authors":"C. Knappett","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2021.1993988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1993988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46779501","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}

{"title":"Hydraulic technology as means of Christian colonisation. Watermills and channels in the Lower Ebro (Catalonia)","authors":"H. Kirchner","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2021.2015622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.2015622","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, evidence provided by written records generated after the conquest of Tortosa in 1148 and the results of archaeological survey have led to the identification of several farmland areas and their associated Andalusi settlements on both banks of the River Ebro, in the hinterland of Madīna Ṭurṭūsha. These field systems were formed by compact and discontinuous cultivation areas on the riverbanks. Drainage channels and wells with water-lifting wheels comprised the main hydraulic techniques used. One of the most relevant changes as a consequence of feudal conquest was the introduction of new hydraulic systems consisting of water catchment in the hills above the river and long channels, whose main purpose was to drive watermills. These channels were rather complex in terms of technology and distinct from those of the Muslim peasant tradition and we can recognise the political power behind them.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"53 1","pages":"862 - 880"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48039694","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}

{"title":"Centralisation and decentralisation processes and pottery production at Arslantepe (SE Anatolia) during the 4th and early 3rd millennium BCE","authors":"P. Fragnoli, M. Frangipane","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2021.2015623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.2015623","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We explore the Late Chalcolithic 3–4 to Early Bronze Age I pottery from Arslantepe by combining compositional, technological and morpho-typological analyses. The paper investigates to what extent economic and political changes affected the organisation of production in terms of natural resources, human labour, and practices. The wheel-finished vessels show a strong continuity in the raw materials, while the organisation of labour changed with an increased task division under the control of the central elites from the LC3-4 to the LC5. By the EBA Ib, the pottery manufacture shows the development of a more autonomous, restricted and skilled community of craftspeople. The handmade burnished production conversely exhibits a stable organisation of labour, while the supply strategies manifested drastic changes related to the non-sedentary subsistence economy of the groups producing this pottery. We can imagine a community of practice independent of political hierarchies and aimed at functional and aesthetic results.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"53 1","pages":"834 - 861"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44617803","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}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"S. Semple, C. Duckworth","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2021.2071049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.2071049","url":null,"abstract":"Almost from its inception, archaeology has been deeply concerned with the human relationship with technology. It has long been recognised that control over technology and the means of production are important in the maintenance of power systems, and that symbolic factors can be significant in the trajectory of technological systems. In the past 20–30 years, agency and technological choice have also been emphasised. Harnessing the potential social powers of technology can be achieved through control over – or restriction of access to – technological knowledge and skill, resources, and infrastructure, and, often implicitly, through the maintenance and performance of social norms. Moments of technological change – a frequent focus of archaeological studies – may expose these structures at the very point at which they are most rapidly changing form, creating interpretive challenges that require robust theorisation. In response, this issue on Technology and Power forefronts a range of papers that explore how recent theoretical and methodological developments in archaeology can shed new light on our understanding of the relationship between technology, and different types of power. The papers in this Special Issue range widely, with consideration of ceramic production nearly 4000 years ago in central Eurasia, to gold-working in China c. 400–300 BCE and hydraulic innovations in Ebro river valley, Catalonia c. 1100 CE. In this way the issue explores technology across time and place and at microand macro-scales. A strong connecting theme across all papers is the relationship between technological and socio-political transformations. Whether authors are exploring ceramic production, precious metal working, or hydraulic technologies, each contribution offers a nuanced understanding of the contingency of power on technological developments and the ways in which different groups harness new technologies to convey status, to manipulate visual grammar or to intensify exploitation. The papers in this issue also deconstruct, in different ways, established notions of relationships between political power and technology in terms of hierarchical, vertical relations. Frieman and James explore the power of peripheries and creolising processes as generators of creativity in terms of technologies, while Dolfini focuses on Copper Age Italy and challenges the normative interpretation that weapon-rich graves, with metal objects, represent the warrior elite. There are gaps of course, the important role of experimental archaeology and replication in discussions of early technology and power is not a strong feature of this issue and authors touch only tangentially on the potential for research on technology to contribute to understanding economic development and advancement. As a collection, however, these papers offer a strong emphasis on the societal and social inter-relationships with technology. Together they demand a fresh consideration of how technologies can themselves","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"53 1","pages":"717 - 722"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43701116","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}

{"title":"Naval power and textile technology: sail production in ancient Greece","authors":"B. Dimova, S. Harris, M. Gleba","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2021.2015428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.2015428","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sails and textile technology played a key role in enabling mobility and thus shaping historical phenomena such as migration, trade, the acquisition and maintenance of imperial power in the ancient Mediterranean. Yet sails are nearly absent from analyses of ancient fleets, even in extensively studied cases like that of Classical Athens. This paper examines the demand and production of sailcloth, including labour and material requirements, and logistics. A consideration of the Athenian navy demonstrates that making sails involved significant amounts of labour and resources. Managing supplies and reserves of sailcloth constituted a significant challenge, which could be addressed through more intensive exploitation of textile workers, trade, and taxation.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"53 1","pages":"762 - 778"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41452061","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}