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Warrior institutions and martial networks in Viking-Age Scandinavia

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101661

Ben Raffield , Sophie Bønding , Christian Cooijmans , Marianne Moen , Declan Taggart

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Dearly De-Parted: Ancestors, body partibility, and making place at Dos Hombres, Belize

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101681

Angelina J. Locker

{"title":"Dearly De-Parted: Ancestors, body partibility, and making place at Dos Hombres, Belize","authors":"Angelina J. Locker","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101681","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101681","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interments of Ancestors linked past peoples with the living. However, less attention has been given to secondary burials and their role in social memory and placemaking. Given these ties between Ancestors, the living, and the landscape, Ancestors may have been brought when descendants moved from place to place. I applied biogeochemical methods to address questions about movement, placemaking, and ancestry. In this paper I present isotopic data from a non-elite Late Preclassic (300 BCE – 250 CE), simple, co-burial from the archaeological site of Dos Hombres, Belize. Archaeological evidence indicates multiple ancestral veneration practices were associated with this burial. I measured oxygen and strontium isotopes to assess whether individuals were born where they were buried and to gauge how bodies may have been used to make and claim place. Strontium isotope ratios and δ<sup>18</sup>O values suggest the primary individual was local to Dos Hombres; however, the secondary individuals have strontium isotope ratios which fall outside the local range, indicating these individuals were non-local. In this paper, I argue that the practice of removing and reburying pieces of Ancestors’ bodies was used by the ancient Maya at Dos Hombres to claim and make place.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101681"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Critiquing the logics of prestige in the interpretation of Cycladic Figurines: Towards an archaeological theory of value

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101680

Alexander Aston

{"title":"Critiquing the logics of prestige in the interpretation of Cycladic Figurines: Towards an archaeological theory of value","authors":"Alexander Aston","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101680","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101680","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article applies the concept of enactive signification to the subject of Early Cycladic figurines, critiquing the use of prestige frameworks for the interpretation of these objects and contributing to the archaeological analysis of the semiotics of value. I examine social organisation during the emergence of the Aegean Early Bronze Age and the material sign relations of Grotta-Pelos mortuary practices to argue that the figurines developed through kinshipping practices and gifting dynamics. Grotta-Pelos schematic figurines were small, personal, and mobile objects that emerged during a period in which dispersed communities were highly dependent upon local interaction networks for social reproduction and survival, suggesting that the circulation of these figurines supported a form of distributed intersubjectivity. The schematics were readily sourced, easily shaped, attractive, mobile, and unlikely to inspire particularly competitive interactions, properties that indicate that these marble objects acted as a locus of social value generated through acts of crafting, imitation, gifting, and circulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101680"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) castration in Fennoscandia: Domestication theory, archaeological methods, and interpretive perspectives

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101678

Mathilde van den Berg

{"title":"Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) castration in Fennoscandia: Domestication theory, archaeological methods, and interpretive perspectives","authors":"Mathilde van den Berg","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101678","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101678","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The traditional practice of reindeer castration is an integral component of all known past and present reindeer herding cultures. It has likely played an essential role in the reindeer domestication process, making it relevant for understanding initial and subsequent human-reindeer interactions beyond hunter-prey relationships. This paper presents data on the Traditional Knowledge of reindeer castration among Sámi and Finnish reindeer herders in Finland and explores human-reindeer relations through this practice, providing a tentative interpretative framework and a multi-voiced perspective on current, historical and archaeological narratives of reindeer herding. Based on the effects of castration on bone and antler growth, it proposes osteological methods to detect castration in the archaeological record. Lastly, the paper integrates Traditional Knowledge of castration with domestication theory, arguing that castration is a key element in reindeer domestication. Firstly, castration seems indispensable for the keeping of reindeer for working purposes. Secondly, the keeping of working reindeer is fundamental to (the development of) reindeer pastoralism. Thirdly, this paper shows that castration is an essential feature of pastoralism beyond the use of working reindeer. It is discussed how castration can be seen as a form of holistic care through relations like domination, subjugation, mediation, growth, respect and partnership.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101678"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143621181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intragroup social differentiation and household inequality in prehistoric Mumun settlements of Korea

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101679

Minkoo Kim

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Daily life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia: A reexamination of physical activity at Tombos

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101668

Sarah Schrader , Michele Buzon , Emma Maggart , Anna Jenkins , Stuart Tyson Smith

{"title":"Daily life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia: A reexamination of physical activity at Tombos","authors":"Sarah Schrader , Michele Buzon , Emma Maggart , Anna Jenkins , Stuart Tyson Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101668","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101668","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous analysis of skeletal indicators of physical activity suggested that the population at Tombos, an Egyptian colonial town in Nubia, may have benefited from an imperial framework through occupations that were not physically demanding. With more than ten years of continued excavations, coupled with further biomolecular testing, we reanalyze entheseal changes at Tombos. We compare entheseal changes between the three areas of cemetery, which house drastically different tomb types. Additionally, we also assess burial position (Egyptian, Nubian) and we incorporate the results of previous strontium isotope analysis to better understand the mortuary, socioeconomic, and occupational landscapes of this colonial space.</div><div>Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once thought to be the final resting place of the most elite, may have also included low-status high-labor staff. We support this argument with comparative data from Egypt and Nubia. Other cemetery areas seem to include individuals whose activity levels were more moderate. Nubian-style burials have relatively low entheseal scores, suggesting that they may have had low-labor occupations during the Egyptian colonial period, despite possibly identifying as Nubian. Lastly, locals and non-locals appear to have similar levels of physical activity, suggesting that migration status was also neither an advantage nor disadvantage in such a multicultural community. This study speaks to the importance of reanalyzing data; with continued excavations, dating, and biomolecular analysis, interpretations of lived experience in the past can be completely altered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101668"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101667

Christopher S. Beekman , Andrew W. Kandel , Joan Anton Barceló , Rachael Kiddey , Hélène Timpoko Kienon-Kaboré , Corey S. Ragsdale , Kouakou Sylvain Koffi , Gninin Aïcha Touré , Laura Mameli , Jeffrey H. Altschul , Christine Lee , Ibrahima Thiaw , CfAS Human Migration Group

{"title":"A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers","authors":"Christopher S. Beekman , Andrew W. Kandel , Joan Anton Barceló , Rachael Kiddey , Hélène Timpoko Kienon-Kaboré , Corey S. Ragsdale , Kouakou Sylvain Koffi , Gninin Aïcha Touré , Laura Mameli , Jeffrey H. Altschul , Christine Lee , Ibrahima Thiaw , CfAS Human Migration Group","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101667","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101667","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents the latest results of a collaborative project that seeks to develop recommendations for policymakers on migration by drawing upon the incomparable dataset accessible to archaeologists. While prior archaeological research on migration has provided important theoretical insights, our policy-oriented goals required us to adopt different terminology and analytical frameworks. How did migration affect migrants and local populations? What were the primary challenges to a successful migration? Can modern migrations be more than sources of analogy for prehistoric cases? We present detailed case studies from very different cultural contexts prioritized by what we call <em>modalities</em> – the different challenges to migrants and the types of capital used to overcome them. We observe that these challenges are often cumulative, placing more burdens upon migrants that ultimately undermine a successful outcome.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101667"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429714","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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Mind the gap: Modeling Mississippian migration and frontier settlement in southwest Virginia, USA

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101664

Brandon T. Ritchison , C. Zoe Doubles , Maureen S. Meyers

{"title":"Mind the gap: Modeling Mississippian migration and frontier settlement in southwest Virginia, USA","authors":"Brandon T. Ritchison , C. Zoe Doubles , Maureen S. Meyers","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101664","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Archaeological narratives of migrations in pre-Colonial North America rely on cultural materials, which often only convey relative temporalities and tempos of these dynamic events. Here, we employ Bayesian chronological modeling to examine a pattern of immigration into a cultural frontier during the 14<sup>th</sup> through the 16<sup>th</sup> centuries AD in what is today southwest Virginia, USA. Incorporation of prior archaeological knowledge and a compilation of new and old radiocarbon dates reverses the chronological relationship of two Mississippian cultural sites that would have been expected based on the presently accepted regional ceramic chronology. This reversal necessitates a recontextualization of migrant motivations and experiences. Additionally, our new chronology demonstrates that when examined at finer spatial and temporal scales, regional population movements in the Mississippian (ca. 10<sup>th</sup> – 17<sup>th</sup> centuries AD) period were likely bi-directional and contingent upon historical circumstance as much as macro-regional push and pull factors. Our revised chronology for these two Mississippian cultural sites offers new avenues for investigating and understanding migrant experiences in the past.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101664"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The cultural macroevolution of lithic technological strategies in Northern and Western North America during the upper Pleistocene and Holocene

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101665

Anna Marie Prentiss , Matthew J. Walsh , Megan Denis , Thomas A. Foor

{"title":"The cultural macroevolution of lithic technological strategies in Northern and Western North America during the upper Pleistocene and Holocene","authors":"Anna Marie Prentiss , Matthew J. Walsh , Megan Denis , Thomas A. Foor","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101665","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101665","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Macroevolutionary analysis provides the opportunity to ask questions concerning the major patterns of long-term continuity and change in the cultural record. In this study, we address the evolution of lithic technological operational strategies spanning the last 20,000 years primarily in the northwestern and northern portions of North America. We measure systemic technological variation on a maximum of 159 site components with 100 artifact characters and character states. Results implicate multiple technological lineages likely deriving from origins in the Siberian Middle to Upper Paleolithic (Paleoarctic/Northeast Pacific Rim, Paleoindian/Archaic, and Paleo-Inuit).. We conclude that some technological strategies evolved for performance in particular environments (Arctic Small Tool tradition) while others evolved and spread across multiple regions likely due to their functional adaptability (Archaic). Finally, we offer methodological recommendations for measuring the likelihood of particular phylogenetic outcomes using Bayesian and phenetic procedures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101665"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143403191","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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Diaspora on the block: Neighborhood archaeology as theory and method

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101662

Koji Lau-Ozawa , J. Ryan Kennedy

{"title":"Diaspora on the block: Neighborhood archaeology as theory and method","authors":"Koji Lau-Ozawa , J. Ryan Kennedy","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The archaeology of diaspora has grown in many directions during the first two decades of the 21st century. It has become a key way of understanding the short-term and long-term connections between people and communities defined by movement and migration. However, archaeologists of diaspora still at times struggle with old models of interpretation which seek out ethnic markers in material culture or signs of acculturation. How then do we move past these paradigmatic pitfalls? In this article we look to the concept of the neighborhood as a potential avenue away from a cul-de-sac of theoretical stagnation. Neighborhoods, spatially proximal areas in towns and cities, often comprise multiple diasporic communities in close contact. Ethnic and racial lines are not necessarily neatly maintained, challenging fixity or fluidity binaries when approaching diasporic communities. Thinking of the neighborhood as interpretive model in itself challenges us to think past siloed communities and look to the distinct ways in which social identities and networks are dynamically shaped by living space in urban contexts. Utilizing material from Santa Barbara’s Nihonmachi, we attempt to think through material culture through the lens of the neighborhood, appreciating the blurred lines across the multiple communities living on the block.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101662"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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