Fifty years ago, approaches to Mesolithic identity were limited to ideas of ‘Man the Hunter’ and ‘Woman the Gatherer’, while evidence of non-normative practice was ascribed to ‘shamans’ and to ‘ritual’, and that was that. As post-processual critiques have touched Mesolithic studies, however, this has changed. In the first decade of the 21st century a strong body of work on Mesolithic identity in life, as well as death, has enabled us to think beyond modern Western categories to interpret identity in the Mesolithic. These studies have addressed the nature of personhood and relational identities, the body, and the relationship between human and other-than-human persons. Our paper reviews these changing approaches, offering a series of case studies from a range of different sites that illustrate how identity is formed and transformed through engagements with landscapes, materials, and both living and dead persons. These are then developed to advocate an assemblage approach to identity in the Mesolithic.

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生死存亡的中石器时代

五十年前，对中石器时代身份的研究仅限于“男人猎人”和“女人聚集者”的思想，而非规范性实践的证据则归因于“巫师”和“仪式”，仅此而已。但是，由于后加工批评触及了中石器时代的研究，因此情况发生了变化。在21世纪的前十年中，关于中石器时代生命以及死亡的大量研究使我们能够超越现代西方范畴来思考，以解释中石器时代的身份。这些研究解决了人格和关系身份的本质，身体以及人类与非人类之间的关系。我们的论文回顾了这些不断变化的方法，提供了一系列来自不同地点的案例研究，这些案例说明了如何通过与景观，材料以及生与死者的接触来形成和改变身份。然后开发这些方法以倡导在中石器时代采用组合方法来识别身份。