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Geophysics elucidate long-term socio-ecological dynamics of foraging, pastoralism, and mixed subsistence strategies on SW Madagascar 地球物理学阐明马达加斯加西南部觅食、放牧和混合生计战略的长期社会生态动态

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101612

Dylan S. Davis , Alejandra I. Domic , George Manahira , Kristina Douglass

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Τhe domestication of southwest Asian ‘farmyard animals’: Possible insights from management of feral and free-range relatives in Greece 西南亚洲 "农家动物 "的驯化：从希腊野养和散养动物管理中可能获得的启示

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101609

Paul Halstead , Valasia Isaakidou , Nasia Makarouna

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Archaeologies of people and space: Social network analysis of communities and neighborhoods in spatial context 人与空间考古学：空间背景下的社区和邻里社会网络分析

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101607

Adrian S.Z. Chase , April Kamp-Whittaker , Matthew A. Peeples

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Dogs under urbanization: Isotopic insight from the Bronze Age Central Plains of China (ca. 2000–1000 BCE) 城市化进程中的狗：中国青铜时代中原地区的同位素研究（约公元前 2000-1000 年）

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101608

Xinyi Ouyang , Zhipeng Li , David Cohen , Xiaohong Wu

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Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark 暴力是维京社会的透镜：挪威和丹麦的比较

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101605

Jan Bill , David Jacobson , Susanne Nagel , Lisa Mariann Strand

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Accommodating agriculture at al-Khayran: Economic relations and settlement practices in the earliest agricultural communities of the southern Levant 在 al-Khayran 适应农业：南黎凡特最早农业社区的经济关系和定居习俗

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101606

Matthew V. Kroot

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Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe 理论化的祖先公地：青铜时代北欧的宇宙论、社区和景观利用之间的纠葛

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101604

Mark Haughton , Mette Løvschal

{"title":"Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe","authors":"Mark Haughton , Mette Løvschal","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101604","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The emergence of open, disturbed grazing landscapes across Early Bronze Age Northern Europe coincided with a boom in the building of monumental barrows, often placed in linear arrangements. The co-emergence of landscape and monument forms suggests an intimate link between cosmology, communities and pasture, which has not featured prominently in prehistoric narratives. We propose and explore a framework of ‘ancestral commons’ to recognize how these landscapes were always both cosmological and practical, with the ancestral presence acting as a key undergirding to potentially fraught issues of grazing rights and maintenance of pasture. We explore specific examples of pastures and linear arrangements of barrows across Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe to explore the institutional entanglements of communities, ancestral infrastructures and landscape forms, such as heathlands. We argue that such complexes were connected to new forms of communities of living and dead, and of landscapes and associated landscape practices, through which a shared sense of the past and ancestral affiliation could be communicated and consolidated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141444367","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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Urban structure, spatial equilibrium, and social inequality at Ancient Teotihuacan 古代特奥蒂瓦坎的城市结构、空间平衡和社会不平等

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101603

Dean M. Blumenfeld , Rudolf Cesaretti , Anne Sherfield , Angela C. Huster , José Lobo , Michael E. Smith

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Beyond identification: Human use of animal dung in the past 超越鉴定：过去人类对动物粪便的使用

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101601

Shira Gur-Arieh , Marco Madella

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The materiality and temporality of St. Lawrence Iroquoian incorporation in late precolonial northern Iroquoia 圣劳伦斯伊洛魁人融入前殖民晚期北伊洛魁的物质性与时间性

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101600

Jonathan Micon, Jennifer Birch

{"title":"The materiality and temporality of St. Lawrence Iroquoian incorporation in late precolonial northern Iroquoia","authors":"Jonathan Micon, Jennifer Birch","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on regional depopulation is often framed around identifying external causal factors and subsequent effects on adjacent societies. This has been the case for studies of the depopulation of the St. Lawrence River Valley (SLRV) of northeastern North America. During the sixteenth century CE, an estimated 8,000–10,000 St. Lawrence Iroquoians (SLI) left the valley in response to climatic and social disruptions. We argue that preexisting sets of relations between people residing in the SLRV and neighboring groups were equally important for structuring the relocation and incorporation of SLI peoples and traditions. To evaluate this process, we employ high-resolution radiocarbon timeframes and data on the quantity, nature, and distribution of SLI material culture to examine when and how objects associated with SLI practices appeared and remained within six community sequences belonging to ancestral Wendat, Onoñda’gegá, and Kanien’kehá:ka traditions. Our results demonstrate that localized SLI material practices first appear outside of the SLRV by 1450 and continue to appear in each sequence, though with meaningful variation. We argue that while SLI individuals and groups extended their familial and cultural connections through strategic interactions and movements, the ways in which those identities were expressed varied as per distinct cultural and historical contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141322947","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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