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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101717

Lawrence H. Keeley , Christopher L. Hernandez , Aldo W. Foe , James Meierhoff , Joanna Ruiz , Nam C. Kim , Joel W. Palka

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Sociological landscape and evolutionary phenomena: a technological approach to the Neolithic southern Levant ceramic assemblages 社会学景观和进化现象：新石器时代黎凡特南部陶瓷组合的技术方法

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101716

Valentine Roux , Carine Harivel

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Mind the chronological gaps: The remembering, forgetting and ignoring of past materiality during the 2nd millennium BC Aegean 注意时间上的差距：公元前2000年爱琴海对过去物质的记忆、遗忘和忽视

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101718

Mercourios Georgiadis

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Variation in ancient Maya governance: A long-term perspective from the central palace at Yaxnohcah, Mexico 古玛雅统治的变化：从墨西哥亚克斯诺卡中央宫殿的长期视角

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101714

Felix Kupprat , Kathryn Reese-Taylor , Armando Anaya Hernández , Debra S. Walker , Sarah Bednar

{"title":"Variation in ancient Maya governance: A long-term perspective from the central palace at Yaxnohcah, Mexico","authors":"Felix Kupprat , Kathryn Reese-Taylor , Armando Anaya Hernández , Debra S. Walker , Sarah Bednar","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101714","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101714","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Archaeology has seen a recent reemergence of interest in ancient forms of governance and variations in political institutions across time and space. While studies of ancient Maya politics have frequently assumed a unified political system, an increasing pool of data suggests that there was in fact a high degree of variability regarding governance and political practice. Here we discuss changes in rulership and power relations from the perspective of the inhabitants of the central palace at Yaxnohcah, focusing on social and political transformations in and beyond the site. Rulership at Yaxnohcah materialized in the Late Preclassic (400 BCE–200 CE), but associated practices shifted focus from community integration to the establishment of a central court identity in the Early Classic (200–600 CE), until courtly privileges were significantly reduced after a political regime change at nearby Calakmul around 636 CE. This case study shows how political institutions constantly adapted to a fluctuating political landscape, which implied profound shifts in both practice and ideology. It also discusses how collective decision-making may have been more pronounced at Yaxnohcah than at other contemporary sites, providing an important datapoint for a general reevaluation of variation in governance in the Maya area and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101714"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144841346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Archaeology’s epistemological breadth: Collaborative-Indigenous and ontological turns in historical perspective 考古学的认识论广度：历史视角下的协作-本土与本体论转向

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101715

Craig N. Cipolla

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The material production of cultural difference in real time: Punjabi, Bengali, and NWFP-ness among Partition refugees in Delhi 实时文化差异的物质生产：德里分治难民中的旁遮普语，孟加拉语和nwfp

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101682

Erin P. Riggs

{"title":"The material production of cultural difference in real time: Punjabi, Bengali, and NWFP-ness among Partition refugees in Delhi","authors":"Erin P. Riggs","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101682","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101682","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Archaeologists understand the limitations of viewing cultural categories as deterministic of material culture use and preference. Nonetheless, it is challenging to avoid such assumptions when attempting to interpret material patterns associated with moments of migration. This paper considers how regional identities shaped the ways refugees interacted with resettlement housing landscapes in Delhi (India) following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. Collating information from in-site survey, oral history interviews, and documentary records, I argue that refugees often view their prePartition regional identities as a major orienting factor in how they have interacted with urban landscapes in the city. Punjabi refugees self-describe their resettlement spaces as modern and quick-changing. Bengali refugees highlight the green space and festival grounds in their communities. Refugees from the North West Frontier Provence highlight their resilience in the face of coercive government planning. All view foregrounding such identities as means to counter the negative stereotypes associated with the broader identifier “refugee.” This case study highlights how individuals can themselves contribute to dominant narratives about the determinism of cultural identities and associated material signifiers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101682"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144750479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unveiling social identification, shared social identity, and collective memory as collective resilience factors: Insights from the Kura-Araxes diaspora 揭示社会认同、共同社会认同和集体记忆作为集体恢复力因素：来自库拉-阿拉克斯散居的见解

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101713

Sepideh Maziar , Luise M. Erfurth

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Technical aspects of Bell Beaker pottery decoration in North-Eastern Poland 波兰东北部钟烧杯陶器装饰的技术方面

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101712

Aleksandra Cetwińska , Joanna Dymańska , Dariusz Manasterski

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Alternatives to interpretive binaries in archaeologies of migration 迁移考古学中解释性二进制的替代方法

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101709

Julia Jong-Haines , Erin P. Riggs

{"title":"Alternatives to interpretive binaries in archaeologies of migration","authors":"Julia Jong-Haines , Erin P. Riggs","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This issue critically considers the binary assumptions archaeologists typically rely on when examining materials and landscapes of migrant and diaspora communities. These assumptions typically involve the search for either migrant associated material culture versus local/host material culture ALSO the search for change versus continuity within migrant associated material cultures. While these ways of approaching migration contexts have long been critiqued in archaeology as both factually inaccurate and associated with political bigotry, they have remained persistent in practice. Speaking across the seven case studies presented in this issue, we consider why this is the case. Why is it so challenging to ‘see’ migration archaeologically without employing categorical thinking related to identity and identity construction? Each contributor to this issue highlights the contextual challenges different migrant groups faced and provides a different answer and solution to how to interpret coping strategies through the material record. Some seek to de-center identity categories as the theoretical entry-point of all archaeological considerations of migration. Others suggest that identity is central to how communities see themselves, but attempt to highlight the ways in which understandings of these categories are multifaceted, ever-in-flux, contended, and/or situated within complex ecological and material worlds. Ultimately, as a collection, we feel that these case studies illustrate the great irony of migration contexts: migration reveals spacio-cultural associations as malleable, while at the same time foregrounding the political import and impact of spaciocultural associations. As such, archaeologists working in contexts of migration must strive to challenge the perceived fixity of ethnoregional categories and cultural territories, while simultaneously illustrating the extent to which understandings of such categories and territories shape the wellbeing and goals of people-on-the-move.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101709"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144623815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Raised from the ashes: Geoarchaeological perspectives on house burning practices in an Iberian Iron Age village 从灰烬中升起：伊比利亚铁器时代村庄房屋焚烧实践的地质考古学观点

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101711

Laura Tomé , Antonio Blanco-González , Eneko Iriarte , Ángel Carrancho , Natalia García-Redondo , Santiago Sossa-Ríos , Alejandra Sánchez-Polo , María Martín-Seijo , Carolina Mallol

{"title":"Raised from the ashes: Geoarchaeological perspectives on house burning practices in an Iberian Iron Age village","authors":"Laura Tomé , Antonio Blanco-González , Eneko Iriarte , Ángel Carrancho , Natalia García-Redondo , Santiago Sossa-Ríos , Alejandra Sánchez-Polo , María Martín-Seijo , Carolina Mallol","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Burnt houses are a recurrent phenomenon in the prehistoric archaeological record, yet the specific processes behind their burning—likely varying across time and place—remain poorly understood. This study focuses on a thoroughly studied dwelling (House 1) from the Iberian Early Iron Age settlement of Cerro de San Vicente and investigates site formation processes associated with its burning. To achieve this, we applied a multi-proxy geoarchaeological approach, integrating archaeological soil micromorphology—including charcoal analysis on thin sections—, magnetic properties analyses, XRD, XRF, and GIS-based morphological and spatial analyses of mudbricks. Our results suggest that House 1 experienced a high temperature fire, reaching temperatures of up to ∼700 °C, which destroyed its roof, burnt its walls, and generated an ash deposit rich in combustion residues. Shortly thereafter, the house was deliberately infilled with burnt reused mudbricks, recycled both from its dismantled walls and potentially other buildings across the settlement. This practice likely served to raise the level of the house to compensate for midden accumulation in the surrounding transit areas while providing a foundation for new construction phases. These findings suggest that construction materials were reused over time according to context-specific cultural rationales, potentially reflecting elements of a prehistoric circular economy. This research enhances our understanding of settlement and socio-cultural dynamics at Cerro de San Vicente, while contributing to broader archaeological discussions on the roles of prehistoric house burning practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101711"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144611537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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