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A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data 使用新几内亚人种学数据的考古相似性网络推断的性能测试

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101550

Mark Golitko

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The Neolithic ceremonial centre at Nowe Objezierze (NW Poland) and its biography from the perspective of the palynological record Nowe Objezierze(波兰西北部)的新石器时代仪式中心及其孢粉记录视角下的传记

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101551

Lech Czerniak , Anna Pędziszewska , Joanna Święta-Musznicka , Tomasz Goslar , Agnieszka Matuszewska , Monika Niska , Marek Podlasiński , Wojciech Tylmann

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Music archaeology in Latin America: Bridging method and interpretation with performance 拉丁美洲的音乐考古:用表演架桥方法和诠释

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101544

Dianne Scullin , Alexander Herrera

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Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape 玛雅地区的家庭差异和不平等

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101552

Whittaker Schroder , Timothy Murtha , Charles Golden , Madeline Brown , Robert Griffin , Kelsey E. Herndon , Shanti Morell-Hart , Andrew K. Scherer

{"title":"Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape","authors":"Whittaker Schroder , Timothy Murtha , Charles Golden , Madeline Brown , Robert Griffin , Kelsey E. Herndon , Shanti Morell-Hart , Andrew K. Scherer","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101552","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The emergence and expansion of inequality have been topics of household archaeology for decades. Traditionally, this question has been informed by ethnographic, ethnohistoric and/or comparative studies. Within sites and regions, comparative physical, spatial, and architectural studies of households offer an important baseline of information about status, wealth, and well-being, especially in the Maya lowlands where households are accessible in the archaeological record. Between sites, more research is necessary to assess how these physical measurements of household remains compare. This paper investigates the intersection of landscape, household, and community based on a multi-scalar analysis of households using the Gini index across southeastern Mexico, in the context of a broader study of land use, land management, and settlement patterns. Notably, this paper represents a region-wide analysis of nearly continuous LiDAR data within and outside of previously documented prehispanic Maya settlements. While we conclude that the Gini index is useful for establishing a comparative understanding of settlement, we also recognize that the index is a starting point to identify other ways to study how household to community-level social and economic variability intersects with diverse ecological patterns. Highlighting the opportunities and limitations with applying measures like the Gini index across culturally, temporally, and geographically heterogeneous areas, we illustrate how systematic studies of settlement can be coupled to broader studies of landscape archaeology to interpret changing patterns of land management and settlement across the Maya lowlands.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101552"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49718924","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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Constructing a borderlands in the ancient international four corners: Settlement layout, architecture, and mortuary practices in thirteenth through fifteenth century CE villages along the contemporary united states-Mexico border 构建古代国际四角的边地:13至15世纪沿当代美国-墨西哥边境的村庄的聚落布局、建筑和殡葬实践

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101547

Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers

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Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data 从考古数据估计文化传播的两个关键维度

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101545

Simon Carrignon , R. Alexander Bentley , Michael J. O'Brien

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Classic Maya figurines as materials of socialization: Evidence from Ceibal, Guatemala 作为社会化材料的经典玛雅雕像:来自危地马拉塞巴尔的证据

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101548

Jessica MacLellan , Daniela Triadan

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Considering Urbanism at Mound Key (Caalus), the capital of the Calusa in the 16th Century, Southwest Florida, USA 考虑到16世纪美国佛罗里达州西南部卡卢萨的首府丘基(卡卢萨)的城市化

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101546

Victor D. Thompson

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Profiling the people behind clay figurines: Technological trace and fingerprint analysis applied to ancient Egypt (Lahun village, MBA II, c. 1800–1700 BC) 泥人背后的人物剖析:古埃及的技术痕迹和指纹分析(拉浑村，MBA II，约公元前1800-1700年)

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101543

Vanessa Forte , Gianluca Miniaci

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New fingerprint evidence for female potters in Late Bronze Age Canaan: The demographics of potters and division of labour at Tel Burna 青铜时代晚期迦南地区女性陶工的新指纹证据:陶工的人口统计和泰尔布纳的劳动分工

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101533

Jon Ross , Kent D. Fowler , Itzhaq Shai

{"title":"New fingerprint evidence for female potters in Late Bronze Age Canaan: The demographics of potters and division of labour at Tel Burna","authors":"Jon Ross , Kent D. Fowler , Itzhaq Shai","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101533","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Techno-stylistic studies in ceramic analysis have largely focused on characterising production groups, based on the similarity of various objects and how they were made. The demographics of potters and the division of labour often remain enigmatic in current <em>chaîne opératoire</em><span> research. A growing number of biometric studies have demonstrated the potential of fingerprints preserved on ceramic surfaces for classifying the age and sex of potters. In this paper, we use a recently introduced identification matrix to model labour divisions based on 52 fingerprints preserved on a diverse range of objects from the Late Bronze Age<span><span> II stratum at Tel Burna. The sample includes objects from the recently exposed cultic enclosure. Based on broad ethnographic considerations, women were the principal potters in Canaanite society. Our study tests this hypothesis with regards to who made pottery for cultic use. We identify patterns in age categories and a sexual division of labour for the manufacture of select objects and vessel types. The results lead us to discuss possible effects of imperialism on labour organisation. We provide the first compelling insights into the </span>social relations<span><span> of pottery production at a time when Egypt exercised hegemony over the city-states of the Southern </span>Levant.</span></span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101533"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49722391","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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