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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

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101713

Sepideh Maziar , Luise M. Erfurth

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Variation in ancient Maya governance: A long-term perspective from the central palace at Yaxnohcah, Mexico 古玛雅统治的变化：从墨西哥亚克斯诺卡中央宫殿的长期视角

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101714

Felix Kupprat , Kathryn Reese-Taylor , Armando Anaya Hernández , Debra S. Walker , Sarah Bednar

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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 : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101707

M. Boyd

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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 : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101701

Donna J. Nash

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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

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub 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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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 : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101706

Elizabeth Arkush, Paul Roscoe, Jennifer Birch, Ben Raffield

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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

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101709

Julia Jong-Haines , Erin P. Riggs

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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 : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101712

Aleksandra Cetwińska , Joanna Dymańska , Dariusz Manasterski

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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 : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101691

Carolina Coelho Aragon , Roseline Mezacasa , Juliana Salles Machado

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Archaeology’s epistemological breadth: Collaborative-Indigenous and ontological turns in historical perspective 考古学的认识论广度：历史视角下的协作-本土与本体论转向

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101715

Craig N. Cipolla

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