AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.63
R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O'Brien
{"title":"Cultural evolution as inheritance, not intentions","authors":"R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O'Brien","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.63","url":null,"abstract":"<p><img href=\"S0003598X24000632_figAb.png\" mimesubtype=\"png\" mimetype=\"image\" orientation=\"\" position=\"\" src=\"https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0003598X24000632/resource/name/S0003598X24000632_figAb.png?pub-status=live\" type=\"\"/></p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.102
Anna Marie Prentiss
{"title":"Human intent and cultural lineages: a response to Bentley & O'Brien","authors":"Anna Marie Prentiss","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I thank Bentley and O'Brien (2024) for their cogent review of issues associated with inheritance and intention in cultural evolution. Intent is, of course, present in cultural process and that begs the question as to when and how we concern ourselves with it as a factor in cultural evolution (Rosenberg 2022). Intent underlies our understanding of both micro- and macro-scale processes of cultural evolution. Lamarckian microevolutionary process depends on decision-makers choosing whether or not to accept and sometimes alter cultural traits (Boyd & Richerson 1985). Zeder (2009, 2018) points out that even long-term change may be affected by conscious infrastructural investments that alter capacity for socioeconomic production and, subsequently, canalise later developments.</p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.123
R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O’Brien
{"title":"On cultural traditions and innovation: finding common ground","authors":"R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O’Brien","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.123","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We appreciate the respondents’ comments on our debate article ‘Cultural evolution as inheritance, not intentions’ (Bentley & O'Brien 2024). We all agree that traditional cultural practices—such as manufacturing Acheulean handaxes—often take considerable amounts of time to learn; as Gladwell (2008) popularly proposed, it takes 10 000 hours of practice to make an expert. We also appear to agree that cultural practices are intergenerational. As Frieman (2024: 1421) notes, ideas and practices persist because they are “valued, recreated, manipulated, instrumentalised and enacted generation after generation”; and as Ingold (2024: 1417) puts it, traditional tasks “are not subject to the free will of the individual but fall upon practitioners as part of their responsibilities” to their communities. Drawing on the practice of Bronze Age metallurgy, Pollard (2024) asks the million-dollar questions: how does innovation occur, and what causes it? As both Prentiss (2024) and Pollard note, for example, the pace of technological change is often punctuated, an observation common across the natural and social sciences, but one that defies easy explanation (e.g. Duran-Nebreda <span>et al</span>. 2024; O'Brien <span>et al</span>. 2024).</p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"131 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.164
Adeline Hoffelinck
{"title":"Old cities, new pathways: approaches to Roman urbanism in Italy","authors":"Adeline Hoffelinck","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.164","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Throughout the twentieth century, considerable research has been dedicated to understanding the rise, development and end of ancient cities. In recent years, there has been a remarkable upsurge of new methodological and theoretical approaches applied in urbanism studies, which enables us to improve, validate or question our knowledge about ancient urban life. The three books reviewed here concern the development, transformation and experience of ancient Roman cities; leading experts in urban history and archaeology discussing the potential of new technologies and conceptual frameworks for analysing Roman urban space.</p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.148
Luke Auld-Thomas, Marcello A. Canuto, Adriana Velázquez Morlet, Francisco Estrada-Belli, David Chatelain, Diego Matadamas, Michelle Pigott, Juan Carlos Fernández Díaz
{"title":"Running out of empty space: environmental lidar and the crowded ancient landscape of Campeche, Mexico","authors":"Luke Auld-Thomas, Marcello A. Canuto, Adriana Velázquez Morlet, Francisco Estrada-Belli, David Chatelain, Diego Matadamas, Michelle Pigott, Juan Carlos Fernández Díaz","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.148","url":null,"abstract":"<p><img href=\"S0003598X24001480_figAb.png\" mimesubtype=\"png\" mimetype=\"image\" orientation=\"\" position=\"\" src=\"https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0003598X24001480/resource/name/S0003598X24001480_figAb.png?pub-status=live\" type=\"\"/></p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.106
Tim Ingold
{"title":"On the poverty of academic imagination: a response to Bentley & O'Brien","authors":"Tim Ingold","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many years ago, I taught a course at the University of Aberdeen on the ‘4As’ of anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture (Ingold 2013). As we had been discussing flint-knapping, I invited the master-knapper, John Lord, to give a demonstration. We watched in awe as he skilfully detached flakes from a flint nodule of irregular shape to reveal the classical, bifacial form of an Acheulean handaxe. Then it was our turn to use wooden or antler hammers to detach flakes from fragments of flint. After an hour or two, none of us had made any headway. What looked simple in practised hands would have required years to learn, not a single afternoon! Nevertheless, the workshop taught us an important lesson. As Bentley and O'Brien (2024) remind us, mastering the skills to make an Acheulean biface requires hundreds of hours of practice. The question is, why does it need so long? What is going on during these many hours?</p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.163
Gregory K. Dow
{"title":"Ancient inequality and economic growth","authors":"Gregory K. Dow","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.163","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The authors of this book are archaeologists who want to create a field they describe as ‘critical paleoeconomics’. Their quest is promising in several ways. For example, they are not averse to grand narratives and believe modern economic theory can offer insights into various features of ancient economies, including markets, trade, money and debt.</p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.162
François Bertemes
{"title":"New research on Neolithic circular enclosures","authors":"François Bertemes","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.162","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Today, Neolithic circular enclosures are generally regarded as evidence of the first monumental architecture in Europe. They are undoubtedly a topical subject in Neolithic research and also attract great interest from a broader audience. This has not always been the case. Just over 40 years ago, the few examples known then, mainly from Bavaria and Bohemia, were regarded as exotic and of no particular importance for the cultural-historical assessment of early farming societies in Europe. Thanks to aerial archaeology, the number of known sites increased rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s in Bavaria and Lower Austria. This has also been the case, since the 1990s, in East Germany and other countries of the former Eastern Bloc when political change made systematic prospecting flights possible. In addition, the development of geophysical prospection methods provided new insights into the structure and landscapes into which the enclosures were embedded. Finally, the increasing number of rescue excavations and large-scale scientific excavations have contributed to a better understanding of such sites as a characteristic component of Middle Neolithic societies in Central Europe.</p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.171
Henriette Rødland
{"title":"Historical archaeology in the Indian Ocean world","authors":"Henriette Rødland","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.171","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This edited volume by Mark Hauser and Julia Jong Haines aims to bring together local narratives within the context of the Indian Ocean in modern times, from <span>c</span>. AD 1500, and establish how these narratives can inform historical archaeology. As the editors highlight in the introductory chapter, historical archaeology has been greatly informed and inspired by the Atlantic world and its colonial histories. Here, they seek instead to foreground the Indian Ocean as a setting for historical archaeology in its own right. The authors use the long and deep history of interconnectedness and trade in this ocean as a basis for understanding more recent history, not just in light of colonial impact but through bottom-up approaches that focus on the local in the global. The case studies in this book and its overall theme are also part of the ongoing process to decentralise Europe in archaeological discourse. The book consists of 11 chapters, including an introductory chapter by Haines and Hauser and two commentaries. The majority of the case studies are from island East Africa or South India, which naturally limits the scope somewhat.</p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.174
Nicholas Groat
{"title":"Deconstructing the ‘Gandhāra still’: a new challenge to the accepted trajectory of early distillation technology","authors":"Nicholas Groat","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.174","url":null,"abstract":"<p><img href=\"S0003598X24001741_figAb.png\" mimesubtype=\"png\" mimetype=\"image\" orientation=\"\" position=\"\" src=\"https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0003598X24001741/resource/name/S0003598X24001741_figAb.png?pub-status=live\" type=\"\"/></p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142488728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}