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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

IF 2.2 1区社会学

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

IF 2 1区社会学

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

Julia Jong-Haines , Erin P. Riggs

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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

IF 2 1区社会学

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

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Beyond the “Luxury Food” Paradigm: Reassessing the social significance of rice in Late Neolithic (4500–4000 cal BP) Southeastern Shandong, China 超越“奢侈食品”范式：重新评估新石器时代晚期（4500-4000 cal BP）山东东南部水稻的社会意义

IF 2 1区社会学

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101710

Xu Liu , Shuhan Zhang , Rubi Wu , Bingyan Wang , Haohong Cai , Yanbo Song , Anne P. Underhill , Xuexiang Chen

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Complicated endings: Household-based foodways and the demise of Early Bronze Age urban society in the southern Levant 复杂的结局：以家庭为基础的食物方式和黎凡特南部早期青铜时代城市社会的消亡

IF 2 1区社会学

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101687

Hanna Erftenbeck , Meredith S. Chesson

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Home, hearth, and housekeeping: Alternative methods for detecting migrants in the Wari Empire, Peru 家，壁炉和家务：在秘鲁瓦里帝国发现移民的不同方法

IF 2 1区社会学

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101701

Donna J. Nash

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Problematizing ‘alliance’ in anthropological archaeology 人类学考古学中的“联盟”问题

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101706

Elizabeth Arkush, Paul Roscoe, Jennifer Birch, Ben Raffield

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Contrasting strategies: Social organization and interaction in the Early Bronze Age of northwestern Scandinavia 对比策略：斯堪的纳维亚西北部青铜时代早期的社会组织与互动

IF 2 1区社会学

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101708

Knut Ivar Austvoll , Mikael Fauvelle , Johan Ling

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Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record: A case study from the central Canadian Boreal Forest, ∼1100–1300 CE 考古记录中觅食者粮食不安全的重要性：来自加拿大中部北方森林的案例研究，约1100-1300年

IF 2 1区社会学

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101707

M. Boyd

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