{"title":"The Architecture of Hunting: The Built Environment of Hunter-Gatherers and Its Impact on Mobility, Property, Leadership, and Labor. Ashley Lemke. 2022. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. xi + 179 pp. $65.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-62349-922-8.","authors":"María Nieves Zedeño","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.58","url":null,"abstract":"The Architecture of Hunting: The Built Environment of Hunter-Gatherers and Its Impact on Mobility, Property, Leadership, and Labor. Ashley Lemke. 2022. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. xi + 179 pp. $65.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-62349-922-8.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135344845","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":"Units in Ceramic Analysis and the Problem of Vessel Use Life","authors":"James K. Feathers","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.55","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Shott (2022, <span>American Antiquity</span> 87:794–815) argues that making inferences from ceramic data requires first inferring use lives of vessels—something that is difficult to do. This comment argues that the problem of differential use life becomes more tractable if the assemblage, rather than the vessel, is the unit of analysis. Aside from empirical reasons, theoretical considerations also favor the assemblage as the appropriate unit.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"34 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166747","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":"Ouachita Mountains Archaeology: Researching the Past with Two Projects in Arkansas. Mary Beth Trubitt. 2019. Popular Series 6. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville. x + 108 pp. $20.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-56349-109-2.","authors":"Matthew J. Davidson","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.63","url":null,"abstract":"Ouachita Mountains Archaeology: Researching the Past with Two Projects in Arkansas. Mary Beth Trubitt. 2019. Popular Series 6. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville. x + 108 pp. $20.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-56349-109-2.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129677","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":"Intrasite Spatial Analysis of Mobile and Semisedentary Peoples: Analytical Approaches to Reconstructing Occupation History. Amy E. Clark and Joseph A. M. Gingerich, editors. 2022. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xi + 169 pp. $60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64769-044-1.","authors":"Mark Stiger","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.64","url":null,"abstract":"Intrasite Spatial Analysis of Mobile and Semisedentary Peoples: Analytical Approaches to Reconstructing Occupation History. Amy E. Clark and Joseph A. M. Gingerich, editors. 2022. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xi + 169 pp. $60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64769-044-1.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129198","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":"Understanding the Rise of Complexity at Cahokia: Evidence of Nonlocal Caddo Ceramic Specialists in the East St. Louis Precinct – CORRIGENDUM","authors":"Shawn P. Lambert, Paige A. Ford","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.72","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"455 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136263048","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}
Megan E. Belcher, Daniel Williams, Natalie G. Mueller
{"title":"Turning Over a New Leaf: Experimental Investigations into the Role of Developmental Plasticity in the Domestication of Goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) in Eastern North America","authors":"Megan E. Belcher, Daniel Williams, Natalie G. Mueller","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.54","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In eastern North America, Indigenous peoples domesticated several crops that are now extinct. We present experimental data that alters our understanding of the domestication of one of these—goosefoot (<span>Chenopodium berlandieri</span>). Ancient domesticated goosefoot has been recognized on the basis of seed morphology, especially a decrease in the thickness of the seed coat (testa). Nondomesticated goosefoot also sometimes produces seeds that look similar or even identical to domesticated ones, but researchers believed that such seeds were rare (1%–3%). We conducted a common garden experiment and a series of carbonization experiments to better understand the determinants of seed polymorphism in archaeobotanical assemblages. We found that goosefoot produces much higher percentages of thin-testa seeds (mean 50% in our experiment, 15%–34% in free-living parent populations) than previously reported. We also found that cultivated plants produce more thin-testa seeds than their free-living parents, demonstrating that this trait is plastic in response to a garden environment. The carbonization experiments suggest that thin-testa seeds preserve under a larger window of conditions than thick-testa seeds, contrary to our expectations. These results suggest that (1) carbonized, phenotypically mixed assemblages should be interpreted cautiously, and (2) developmental plasticity and genetic assimilation played a role in the domestication of goosefoot.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"34 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166746","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":"Resetting Archaeological Interpretations of Precontact Indigenous Agriculture: Maize Isotopic Evidence from Three Ancestral Mohawk Iroquoian Villages","authors":"John P. Hart, Susan Winchell-Sweeney","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.44","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Archaeologists working in eastern North America typically refer to precontact and early postcontact Native American maize-based agriculture as shifting or swidden. Based on a comparison with European agriculture, it is generally posited that the lack of plows, draft animals, and animal manure fertilization resulted in the rapid depletion of soil nitrogen. This required Indigenous farmers to move their fields frequently. In Northern Iroquoia, depletion of soil fertility is frequently cited as one reason why villages were moved to new locations every 20 to 40 years. Recent analysis of δ<span>15</span>N ratios of maize macrobotanical remains from Northern Iroquoia, however, suggests that Iroquoian farmers were able to maintain soil nitrogen in their maize fields. An expanded analysis of maize kernel δ<span>15</span>N ratios from three ancestral Mohawk villages indicates that farmers from those villages maintained soil nitrogen throughout the occupational spans of their villages. It further suggests that precontact Iroquoian agronomy was consistent with contemporary conservation agriculture practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"90 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435524","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":"Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity. Ashley K. Lemke, editor. 2019. University Press of Colorado, Louisville. xx + 275 pp. $70.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-60732-773-8.","authors":"Ben Fitzhugh","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.74","url":null,"abstract":"Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity. Ashley K. Lemke, editor. 2019. University Press of Colorado, Louisville. xx + 275 pp. $70.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-60732-773-8.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912556","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":"Salt: White Gold in Early Europe. Anthony Harding. 2021. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. v + 93 pp. $20.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-009-01764-0. $16.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-009-03759-4.","authors":"Ashley A. Dumas","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.69","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135741767","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":"English Landscapes and Identities: Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086. Chris Gosden, Chris Green, Anwen Cooper, Miranda Creswell, Victoria Donnelly, Tyler Franconi, Roger Glyde, Zena Kamash, Sarah Mallet, Laura Morley, Daniel Stansbie, and Letty ten Harkel. 2021. Oxford University Press, Oxford. xxiv + 470 pp. $110.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-887062-3.","authors":"Rachel Pope","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.68","url":null,"abstract":"English Landscapes and Identities: Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086. Chris Gosden, Chris Green, Anwen Cooper, Miranda Creswell, Victoria Donnelly, Tyler Franconi, Roger Glyde, Zena Kamash, Sarah Mallet, Laura Morley, Daniel Stansbie, and Letty ten Harkel. 2021. Oxford University Press, Oxford. xxiv + 470 pp. $110.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-887062-3.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740594","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}