{"title":"Understanding the Rise of Complexity at Cahokia: Evidence of Nonlocal Caddo Ceramic Specialists in the East St. Louis Precinct","authors":"Shawn P. Lambert, Paige A. Ford","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.28","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article investigates the rise of social complexity of Cahokia's multiethnic city through a robust stylistic grammar analysis of early Caddo fine ware vessels at Cahokia's East St. Louis Precinct. We explore ceramic production and distribution to shed light on whether Caddo-like fine wares were produced by Caddo potters who lived and crafted at Cahokia, were produced by local Cahokia potters who copied Caddo motifs, or were imported to Cahokia from the southern Caddo area. This investigation helps us better understand the nature of Caddo connections at the beginning of Cahokia's development and provides a means of identifying and interpreting new levels of social interactions between the Caddo world and Cahokia. The stylistic grammar results show that the majority of the Caddo-like vessels at Cahokia have identical stylistic grammar as vessels from the Caddo world. This strongly suggests that Caddo craft specialists migrated to, lived, and crafted their homeland vessels at Cahokia and thus were key social actors in its development.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"361 - 385"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46171740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicholas Gala, S. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, M. Eren
{"title":"The Injury Costs of Knapping","authors":"Nicholas Gala, S. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, M. Eren","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.27","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For at least three million years, knapping stone has been practiced by hominin societies large and small, past and present. Thus, understanding knapping, knappers, and knapping cultures is fundamental to anthropological research around the world. Although there is a general sense that stone knapping is inherently dangerous and can lead to injury, little is formally, specifically, or systematically known about the frequency, location, or severity of knapping injuries. Toward this end, we conducted a 31-question survey of modern knappers to better understand knapping risks. Responses from 173 survey participants suggest that knapping injuries are a real and persistent hazard, even though a majority of modern knappers use personal protective equipment. A variety of injuries (lacerations, punctures, aches, etc.) can occur on nearly any part of the body. The severity of injury sustained by some of our participants is shocking, and nearly one-quarter of respondents reported having sought or received professional medical attention for a flintknapping-related injury. Overall, the results of this survey suggest that there would have likely been serious, even fatal, costs to knappers in past societies. Such costs may have encouraged the deployment of any social learning capacities possessed by hominins or delayed the learning or exposure of young infants or children to knapping.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"283 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48350259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession. Alice Beck Kehoe. 2022. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. xvii + 195 pp. $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4962-2936-6. $24.95 (e-book, EPUB), ISBN 978-1-4962-3109-3. $24.95 (e-book, PDF), ISBN 978-1-4962-3110-9.","authors":"E. Chilton","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.23","url":null,"abstract":"a very","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"419 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43031424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. Neil Price. 2020. Basic Books, New York. xvii + 599 pp. $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-465-09698-5. $19.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-541-60111-6. $19.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-465-09699-2.","authors":"S. Knutson","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.32","url":null,"abstract":"The Vikings hold incalculable complex legacies — in research, the popular imagination, misuses of the past, and, not least, the history books. In Children of Ash and Elm , Neil Price synthesizes decades of scholarship and reweaves a history of the Vikings with an anthropological goal: understanding these people in the past as they saw themselves. He acknowledges the complications of the term “ Viking","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"422 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48904950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments. Heather B. Thakar and Carola Flores Fernandez, editors. 2023. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xviii + 275 pp. $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6958-6.","authors":"Dylan S. Davis","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.31","url":null,"abstract":"Human behavioral ecology (HBE) has made significant contributions to archaeological research over the past several decades, but it has also been criticized for its often reductionist approach rooted in Western viewpoints, which can ignore (and have ignored) cultural contexts. This volume, edited by Heather B. Thakar and Carola Flores Fernandez","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47361413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Middle Atlantic Prehistory: Foundations and Practice. Heather A. Wholey and Carole L. Nash, editors. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland. 2018. vi + 396 pp. $116.00 (hardcover, 2018), ISBN 978-1-4422-2875-7. $37.00 (e-book, 2018), ISBN 978-1-4422-2876-4. $39.00 (paperback, 2021), ISBN 978-1-5381-5849-4.","authors":"Madeleine Gunter-Bassett","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"Middle Atlantic Prehistory: Foundations and Practice. Heather A. Wholey and Carole L. Nash, editors. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland. 2018. vi + 396 pp. $39.00 (paperback, 2021), ISBN 978-1-5381-5849-4.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135115598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities. Tracy K. Betsinger and Sharon N. DeWitte, editors. 2020. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. xix + 538 pp. $179.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-53416-5. $139.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-030-53417-2. $179.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-030-53419-6.","authors":"Christina Torres","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.25","url":null,"abstract":"The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities. Tracy K. Betsinger and Sharon N. DeWitte, editors. 2020. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. xix + 538 pp. $179.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-030-53419-6.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135613472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear: Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and Borderlands. Robert H. Brunswig, editor. 2020. University Press of Colorado, Louisville. xii + 390 pp. $97.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64642-017-9. $75.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64642-018-6.","authors":"J. Allison","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.24","url":null,"abstract":"cuisine during the Woodland and Mississippian periods. Neill J. Wallis and Thomas J. Pluckhahn present a regional analysis of Swift Creek pottery, documenting long-term changes in vessel wall thickness and size. They argue that these changes in vessel form represent previously unrecognized shifts in food preparation and cuisine in the context of decreasing intercommunity commensal events. Rachel V. Briggs concludes by championing an historical anthropology approach to foodways archaeology through an examination of the complexity of hominy foodways in the Mississippian Southeast. This chapter provides an important theoretical discussion of foodways archaeology that is broadly relevant, engaging with the metaphorical grounding of food and the complexity of taste in understanding continuity and change in foodways. Peres and Deter-Wolf are both experienced authors on the topic of foodways, and this book builds on their thought-provoking and innovative approaches through contributions that emphasize the untapped potentials and challenges of the archaeology of US Southeast foodways. It will not only be an important reference for those concerned with foodways and subsistence in the American Southeast but will also be valuable for any archaeologist seeking to engage with the rich relationships between food and social life in the past.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"429 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47781881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos. Jack L. Davis, with contributions by Sharon R. Stocker. 2022. University of California Press, Oakland. xxiv + 127 pp. $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-52038-724-9. Open access (e-book), ISBN 978-0-520-38725-6, https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.121/.","authors":"Carl Knappett","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.26","url":null,"abstract":"A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos. Jack L. Davis, with contributions by Sharon R. Stocker. 2022. University of California Press, Oakland. xxiv + 127 pp. $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-52038-724-9. Open access (e-book), ISBN 978-0-520-38725-6, https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.121/.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135708561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Pargeter, A. Brooks, Katja Douze, Metin Eren, Huw S. Groucutt, Jessica-Louise McNeil, A. Mackay, Kathryn L. Ranhorn, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Matthew Shaw, C. Tryon, Manuel Will, A. Leplongeon
{"title":"Replicability in Lithic Analysis","authors":"J. Pargeter, A. Brooks, Katja Douze, Metin Eren, Huw S. Groucutt, Jessica-Louise McNeil, A. Mackay, Kathryn L. Ranhorn, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Matthew Shaw, C. Tryon, Manuel Will, A. Leplongeon","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The ubiquity and durability of lithic artifacts inform archaeologists about important dimensions of human behavioral variability. Despite their importance, lithic artifacts can be problematic to study because lithic analysts differ widely in their theoretical approaches and the data they collect. The extent to which differences in lithic data relate to prehistoric behavioral variability or differences between archaeologists today remains incompletely known. We address this issue with the most extensive lithic replicability study yet, involving 11 analysts, 100 unmodified flakes, and 38 ratio, discrete, and nominal attributes. We use mixture models to show strong inter-analyst replicability scores on several attributes, making them well suited to comparative lithic analyses. Based on our results, we highlight 17 attributes that we consider reliable for compiling datasets collected by different individuals for comparative studies. Demonstrating this replicability is a crucial first step in tackling more general problems of data comparability in lithic analysis and lithic analyst's ability to conduct large-scale meta-analyses.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"163 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45972741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}