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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

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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

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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

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

M. Boyd

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A crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Alps: Lithic technology, raw material procurement, and mobility in the Aurignacian of Riparo Bombrini 地中海和阿尔卑斯山之间的十字路口：里帕罗邦布里尼奥里尼亚纪的石器技术、原材料采购和流动性

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101705

Armando Falcucci , Stefano Bertola , Martina Parise , Matteo Del Rio , Julien Riel-Salvatore , Fabio Negrino

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Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago 谁造了奥尔当？回顾350万年前的非洲古人类化石和考古遗址

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101704

Eleanor M. Williams , Alastair Key , Ignacio de la Torre , Bernard Wood

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“Weaving” the tupi: The study of kʷaẽ language and the persistence of pottery-making knowledge among the Akuntsu women, southwestern Amazon “编织”图皮：亚马孙西南部Akuntsu妇女对k -阿卡语的研究和对制陶知识的坚持

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101691

Carolina Coelho Aragon , Roseline Mezacasa , Juliana Salles Machado

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Wetlands and grasslands: Habitat choice of hunters and herders across the transition to mobile pastoralism in Mongolia’s desert-steppe 湿地和草原：蒙古沙漠草原向流动畜牧业过渡过程中猎人和牧民的栖息地选择

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101685

Jennifer M. Farquhar , Arlene Rosen , Loukas Barton , Robert Drennan , Claire E. Ebert , Dalantai Sarantuya , Yadmaa Tserendagva

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Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England 17世纪新英格兰南部白尾鹿的商品化

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101693

Elic M. Weitzel

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Integrating cross-collections research and archival study: new insights on macaws and parrots from Chaco Canyon, NM 整合跨收藏研究和档案研究：新墨西哥州查科峡谷金刚鹦鹉和鹦鹉的新见解

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101690

Katelyn J. Bishop

{"title":"Integrating cross-collections research and archival study: new insights on macaws and parrots from Chaco Canyon, NM","authors":"Katelyn J. Bishop","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101690","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101690","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>North American archaeology is increasingly embracing the study of existing museum collections to fulfill longstanding ethical obligations to document curated materials and to avoid unnecessary excavation of archaeological sites. Working with collections from historic excavations in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, this article confronts some of the challenges of collections-based research and demonstrates the benefits of overcoming them. Chaco was the center of a regional network that developed in the northern U.S. Southwest between AD 800 and 1150. Frequently referenced is the presence of nonlocal macaws and parrots, brought in and raised within the canyon. The foundation of our understanding of these birds, however, remains shaky. The research presented here integrates a zooarchaeological reanalysis with legacy data and archival documentation from more than 130 years of archaeological exploration. It provides a revised number of individuals, diachronic and spatial perspectives on deposition, evidence for the practice of curation, and insight into the care that birds were afforded. The construction of osteobiographies refocuses attention on these birds as living beings rather than as objects leveraged in trade and social status. Though often complex and time-consuming, working across multiple collections—both artifactual and archival—has the potential to provide new insights from “old” data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101690"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935092","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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