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Least cost path analysis and fluvial navigation of Patagonian hunter-gatherers 巴塔哥尼亚狩猎采集者的最低成本路径分析和河流导航
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106397
Federico L. Scartascini , Alhue Bay Gavuzzo
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An understanding of wealth inequality revealed by the Gini coefficient: Insights from prehistoric burial data in the Liyang Plain, China 基尼系数揭示的对财富不平等的理解:来自中国溧阳平原史前埋葬数据的洞察
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106411
Dongdong Li , Suwei Guo
{"title":"An understanding of wealth inequality revealed by the Gini coefficient: Insights from prehistoric burial data in the Liyang Plain, China","authors":"Dongdong Li ,&nbsp;Suwei Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106411","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106411","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper proposes a composite metric for analyzing economic inequality reflected in prehistoric burials by integrating the value of burial goods with the labor investment required for burial construction. This approach helps mitigate interpretive biases that arise from relying on a single dimension of burial wealth assessment. To address the common challenge of small sample sizes in prehistoric burials, we adopt bootstrap resampling and apply appropriate small-sample corrections to the resulting Gini coefficients. Building on the above methods, this paper uses extensive prehistoric burial data from a site on China's Liyang Plain to trace diachronic patterns of economic inequality. The study reveals diachronic patterns of economic inequality, showing that increase in burial wealth inequality was likely tied to hydraulic infrastructure projects and that ritual power concentrated wealth more effectively than political-military power.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106411"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145474709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Broad-spectrum fishing and small fish use in Late Neolithic Taiwan: New insights from otolith-based analysis 新石器时代晚期台湾的广谱捕鱼和小鱼使用:来自耳石分析的新见解
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106422
Zi-Qi Chew , Ellen Hsieh , Chien-Hsiang Lin
{"title":"Broad-spectrum fishing and small fish use in Late Neolithic Taiwan: New insights from otolith-based analysis","authors":"Zi-Qi Chew ,&nbsp;Ellen Hsieh ,&nbsp;Chien-Hsiang Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106422","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106422","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Small-bodied fish species (≤15 cm in total length) are ecologically and culturally important in modern coastal ecosystems and nearshore fisheries yet remain largely invisible in the archaeological record due to methodological and interpretive limitations. This study addresses this gap by applying a fine-resolution analytical framework—combining fine-sieving (0.5–2.0 mm) and otolith identification—to bulk sediment samples (116.3 kg) from the Hepingdao B site (3300 BP–present) in northern Taiwan. A total of 377 otoliths were recovered, representing 47 taxa across 25 families. Dominant taxa include reef-associated species such as cardinalfishes (Apogonidae), gobies (Gobiidae), and damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Comparative analysis with ethnographic data demonstrates significant taxonomic overlap with Indigenous fisheries in Taiwan, shedding light on similar maritime adaptations. Our study reports 13 fish families and multiple genera not previously recorded in Taiwan's prehistoric archaeological assemblages, significantly expanding the known taxonomic breadth of early Austronesian fishing practices. These findings underscore the value of fine-sieving and otolith analysis for recovering previously unrecognized components of coastal subsistence strategies. More broadly, our results provide new evidence for a prehistoric multi-species fishery centered on small-bodied taxa and highlight methodological pathways for integrating zooarchaeological, ichthyological, and ethnographic data to reconstruct the previously hidden aspects of prehistoric maritime subsistence and challenge longstanding biases in zooarchaeological interpretation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145528380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The social behind the physical - Assessing tie formation processes of ancient route systems 物理背后的社会——古代路线系统形成过程的评价
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106413
Deborah Priß , Christina Prell , Dan Lawrence , Laura Turnbull , John Wainwright
{"title":"The social behind the physical - Assessing tie formation processes of ancient route systems","authors":"Deborah Priß ,&nbsp;Christina Prell ,&nbsp;Dan Lawrence ,&nbsp;Laura Turnbull ,&nbsp;John Wainwright","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106413","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106413","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Analysing and understanding connectivity of human social networks of (ancient) societies offers new perspectives on their functioning. However, social network approaches in archaeology rarely utilise formal statistical models to test established theories or develop new hypotheses. In this paper, we present the implementation of MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to investigate the hollow way network between settlements of the Bronze and Iron Age Khabur Valley, Mesopotamia. Using MTERGMs, we evaluate eight hypotheses to assess which network patterns explain the formation of the hollow ways. Our results show that in the cross-sectional networks, preferential attachment, transitivity, distance and site size are important factors for tie formation while the longitudinal analysis reveals tie persistence over time with distance and transitivity being significant for tie formation. We reflect on these findings as well as the limitations of our dataset and conclude that MTERGMs are useful tools to formally evaluate archaeological theories pertaining to network structures and processes, if the available data are sufficiently complete.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106413"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145485603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dual-platform (GC-MS & UPLC-HRMS) metabolomics analysis as a novel method to detect organic residues absorbed in pottery: a preliminary study at the Peiligang site, China 双平台(GC-MS & UPLC-HRMS)代谢组学分析作为检测陶器中有机残留的新方法:在培里岗遗址的初步研究
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106415
Junxian Jing , Yongqiang Li , Xiaoying Wu , Kai Wang , Qi Liu , Yaowu Hu
{"title":"Dual-platform (GC-MS & UPLC-HRMS) metabolomics analysis as a novel method to detect organic residues absorbed in pottery: a preliminary study at the Peiligang site, China","authors":"Junxian Jing ,&nbsp;Yongqiang Li ,&nbsp;Xiaoying Wu ,&nbsp;Kai Wang ,&nbsp;Qi Liu ,&nbsp;Yaowu Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106415","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106415","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chemical analysis of organic residues absorbed in pottery can provide valuable information on culinary practices in the past. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is routine for identifying the organic compositions and biomarkers. In recent years, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has been increasingly applied to discern metabolites with more precision. However, the combination of these two techniques has never been reported in organic residue analysis to date. In this study, we, for the first time, introduce a new method to detect organic residues absorbed in pottery at the Peiligang site (Henan, China) during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The results show that compared to traditional methods (GC-MS), the metabolomic analysis (DPMA), combined with on GC-MS and UPLC-HRMS, enables rapid and comprehensive characterization of significant organic compounds in pottery. GC-MS analysis shows the lower content of lipids (0.5–40 μg/g) in all samples, including fatty acids, fatty alcohols, monoacylglycerols, while DPMA analysis indicates the presence of more lipids including fatty acyls, sterols and their derivatives, prenol lipids, polyketides among which fatty acyls are dominant. Both methods suggest that terrestrial animal and plant resources were utilized by humans, but DPMA provides more evidence on the categories of animal and plant resources. Neither method detected the cereal biomarkers (e.g. miliacin), although they were shown in archaeobotanical and dental calculus analyses. This could have been attributed to the timeline of the development of agriculture or the inertness of extraction to plant biomarkers. It is most striking that DPMA analysis finds the secondary metabolites of aromatic plants (13-tetradecanolide, tephrosol, and coumarin A, etc.), might indicating the intentional addition of herbal plants to enhance the flavour during food processing. The universal presence of organic acids in all pottery (cooking and non-cooking) in DPMA analysis supports the previously reported claim that they are not unreliable biomarkers related to alcohol-making activities. Furthermore, the discriminating analysis of metabolites among all pottery indicates the functional difference between cooking and non-cooking pottery and emphasizes the possible importance of <em>Ding</em> among pottery assemblages. Overall, DPMA has been proven as a novel method to look through culinary practices with highly sensitive resolution and has great potential in expanding our knowledge of ancient culinary practices. At last, the advantages and disadvantages of applying DPMA analysis are also discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106415"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145425277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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ZooMS as a tool for understanding prehistoric pelagic fishing: Insights from archaeological shark and scombrid remains on Fais Island, Micronesia, over the last two millennia 放大镜作为了解史前远洋捕鱼的工具:过去两千年来密克罗尼西亚费斯岛考古鲨鱼和鲭鱼遗骸的见解
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106386
Clara Boulanger , Rintaro Ono , Michiko Intoh , Michael Buckley
{"title":"ZooMS as a tool for understanding prehistoric pelagic fishing: Insights from archaeological shark and scombrid remains on Fais Island, Micronesia, over the last two millennia","authors":"Clara Boulanger ,&nbsp;Rintaro Ono ,&nbsp;Michiko Intoh ,&nbsp;Michael Buckley","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106386","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The capture of fast-moving marine predators, such as sharks and scombrids, played a crucial role in human subsistence and cultural evolution, with advanced fishing techniques emerging alongside the maritime expansions of Neolithic populations across the Pacific. However, challenges in identifying their remains in the archaeological record have constrained our understanding of their significance. Fais, a raised coral island in Micronesia, has been inhabited for 1800 years, with archaeological evidence revealing a reliance on fishing strategies targeting inshore taxa but also pelagic taxa including some species of sharks and scombrids. Using ZooMS, this study analysed archaeological bones, mostly vertebrae, from the Powa (FSPO) archaeological site, Fais, with 100 % and 93 % success rates of retrieving collagen fingerprints in scombrids (&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; = 77) and sharks (&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; = 54) respectively. The scombrids were overwhelmingly dominated (97 %; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; = 75) by skipjack tuna (&lt;em&gt;Katsuwonus pelamis&lt;/em&gt;), with the remaining specimens deriving from two distinct species, yellowfin tuna (&lt;em&gt;Thunnus albacares&lt;/em&gt;) and wahoo (&lt;em&gt;Acanthocybium solandri&lt;/em&gt;). In contrast, the shark remains were more taxonomically diverse and evenly balanced, with at least five distinct taxa across much fewer samples. Although lacking a complete enough reference database to make confident assignments to species, we could infer that at least more than one half of the identifications were to groups that closely match the silky shark (&lt;em&gt;Carcharhinus falciformis; n = 20&lt;/em&gt;), and the Galapagos shark (&lt;em&gt;C&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;galapagensis; n = 11&lt;/em&gt;); these two sharks have well-known associations with tuna and their identifications are consistent with some of the dominant species inferred through morphology. A third relatively abundant type (&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; = 17) yielded spectra that could not be matched to our reference material, though plausibly of the only other relatively abundant tuna-associated taxon, the silvertip shark (C. &lt;em&gt;albimarginatus&lt;/em&gt;). A further two species were represented by one sample each, one of which was a good match for the whitetip reef shark (&lt;em&gt;Triaenodon obesus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;, but the other also not close to any of the reference material included in this study. Nonetheless, the categorization of the shark remains in this study using ZooMS disagrees with the categorization by morphology reported elsewhere, where multiple ‘types’ are found in previously identified morphological types and &lt;em&gt;vice versa&lt;/em&gt;. From a methodological viewpoint, this study clearly demonstrates the substantial difference in confidence that can be assigned to a taxonomic identification that well-curated ZooMS databases can offer, particularly when supported by genomic sequence information. By improving the taxonomic resolution of archaeological fish identifications these findings enhance our understanding of ancient fishing practices while suggesting a n","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106386"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145397369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Translocation of sedimentary ancient DNA in archaeological cultural deposits: Mechanism and prospects 考古文化沉积物中沉积古DNA的易位:机制与展望
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106424
Xu Han , Nihanxue Jia , Shihua Hu , Lianfang Feng , Zhengquan Gu , Xiaoyan Yang
{"title":"Translocation of sedimentary ancient DNA in archaeological cultural deposits: Mechanism and prospects","authors":"Xu Han ,&nbsp;Nihanxue Jia ,&nbsp;Shihua Hu ,&nbsp;Lianfang Feng ,&nbsp;Zhengquan Gu ,&nbsp;Xiaoyan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) extracted from archaeological depositions is an emerging approach in archaeology. Compared to traditional macro- and micro-remain morphological identification-based methods, sedaDNA provides richer information, higher sensitivity, and finer taxonomic resolution. However, the complicated processes of post-depositional disturbances of DNA in archaeological settings, especially DNA translocation, in DNA molecules moving across different cultural layers along with matrices, pose a potential issue that challenges the reliability of sedaDNA applications in archaeological depositions. Here, we summarize the preservation and translocation mechanisms of DNA in sediments, analyze how to face and assess the impact of the translocation problem when applying sedaDNA to archaeological cultural deposits, and propose: 1) to develop appropriate sampling strategies based on site-specific conditions; 2) to apply soil micromorphological and stratigraphic analysis to sedaDNA studies; 3) to conduct systematic comparisons between layers; 4) to conduct more translocation and adsorption simulation experiments; and 5) to carefully interpret results combining other traditional approaches. These need interdisciplinary collaboration among experts in molecular biology, archaeology, soil science, and related fields across multiple stages, including methodological design, sampling, laboratory procedures, and data interpretation. We believe that if the DNA translocations are controlled or avoided, the employ of the sedaDNA method can provide us with unprecedented insights into archaeological science.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106424"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145434364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A bioavailable strontium isoscape for the Andes based on machine learning 基于机器学习的安第斯山脉生物可利用锶同位素图
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106410
Erik J. Marsh , Marcelo Cardillo , Kelly J. Knudson , Allisen Dahlstedt , Ramiro Barberena
{"title":"A bioavailable strontium isoscape for the Andes based on machine learning","authors":"Erik J. Marsh ,&nbsp;Marcelo Cardillo ,&nbsp;Kelly J. Knudson ,&nbsp;Allisen Dahlstedt ,&nbsp;Ramiro Barberena","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106410","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106410","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents a compilation of strontium faunal data from South America (n = 633), which are nearly all from the Andes and Patagonia. In order to build isoscapes of bioavailable strontium, we used machine learning to assess spatial relationships with 46 spatial layers, including a high-resolution 1:5 million geological map. Based on the selected variables, we used predicted <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr values to make two isoscapes. Isoscape 1 covers the entire study area and is based on three variables: distance to coast, sea salt, and clay percentage; surprisingly, geological age was not a discriminating variable. For Isoscape 2, we focused on a smaller sample from the southern Andes, which meets global expectations that bioavailable strontium correlates with underlying geological age. We compared these isoscapes to human values from two well-studied regions: Mendoza, Argentina, and Moquegua, Peru. In neither case were data sufficient to allow us to adequately geolocate migrants. Toward more robust isoscapes and improved geolocation, we recommend future sampling efforts be built from high-resolution geological maps and consider the potential of smaller but more reliable samples.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106410"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145447283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China 洞址形成过程、气候变化与古人类活动:云南佛洞地洞更新世晚期沉积物的高分辨率微地层研究
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106416
Jin-Xu Wu , Feng Gao , Yu-Xiu Zhang , Hao-Yu Liu , Xue-Zhu Zhao , Kai-Wei Qiu , Michael Storozum , Lisa-Marie Shillito , Xin Jin
{"title":"Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China","authors":"Jin-Xu Wu ,&nbsp;Feng Gao ,&nbsp;Yu-Xiu Zhang ,&nbsp;Hao-Yu Liu ,&nbsp;Xue-Zhu Zhao ,&nbsp;Kai-Wei Qiu ,&nbsp;Michael Storozum ,&nbsp;Lisa-Marie Shillito ,&nbsp;Xin Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106416","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106416","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>High-resolution microstratigraphic investigations of tropical-subtropical cave deposits hold significant potential for profoundly expanding our understanding of how both environmental and anthropogenic factors affect regional sedimentary systems. Recent multi-proxy geoarchaeological research at Fodongdi Cave in Yunnan Province, South China, has uncovered rich Late Palaeolithic sedimentary and archaeological deposits. This study integrates results from soil micromorphology, sedimentology (particle-size, magnetic susceptibility), geochemistry (μFTIR, Raman, μXRF, pXRF), and radiocarbon dating. These analyses reveal various sedimentary, diagenetic, and biogenic formation processes, as well as indicators of anthropogenic activities such as shell midden and combustion features. We identify three main phases of human occupation at Fodongdi Cave (18.4–13.6 cal ka BP), each characterized by distinct types of activities that include a specialist subsistence strategy, long-term occupation within the cave, and activity concentrated near the cave entrance. By comparing our results with high-resolution regional climatic records, we suggest an interactive relationship between terminal Pleistocene climate change and human adaptive strategies in South China and Southeast Asia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106416"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145447282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Scaffolding minds? Toolmaking complexity and brain evolution in the hominin record 脚手架思想吗?古人类记录中工具制造的复杂性和大脑的进化
IF 2.5 1区 地球科学
Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106412
Alla A. Movsesian
{"title":"Scaffolding minds? Toolmaking complexity and brain evolution in the hominin record","authors":"Alla A. Movsesian","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106412","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106412","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Material Culture Scaffold Hypothesis (MCSH) proposes that durable tool traditions acted as external scaffolds for cognition, creating reciprocal feedbacks between technological elaboration and brain evolution. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed lithic procedural-unit (PU) data from 13 Paleolithic assemblages (2.35 Ma–32 ka) alongside taxon-level mean endocranial volumes (ECV). Procedural depth was distinguished into conservative units (PU_C), indexing routine, reversible steps, and non-conservative units (PU_NC), indexing irreversible, dependency-laden operations with higher executive demands. Ordinary least squares and cluster-robust regressions reveal positive associations between both PU measures and ECV, with PU_NC providing the more consistent predictor (R<sup>2</sup> ≈ 0.50). Temporal analyses show gradual increases in PU_C, PU_NC, and ECV over ∼2.4 million years, with steep acceleration of PU_NC and brain volume in the Late Pleistocene. Taxonomic contrasts clarify this trajectory: early Homo and Mid-Pleistocene Homo (s.l.) remain confined to low-complexity, small-volume ranges; Neanderthals reach high PU values but with limited recurrence; <em>Homo sapiens</em> repeatedly generated and stabilized deep procedural chains across multiple contexts. These results support the hypothesis that toolmaking elaboration and encephalization were mutually reinforcing, with externalized technological routines structuring developmental and selective environments. Independent experimental and neuroimaging research further supports this interpretation, showing that complex knapping engages frontal executive networks and increases working-memory and planning demands. Although constrained by sample size and proxy measures, the findings highlight procedural depth as a useful bridge between archaeological evidence and cognitive evolution, consistent with broader models of gene–culture co-evolution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106412"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145435092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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