Mark Haughton’s attention to the negotiation of identities at the local scale, emphasis on age and gender as key dimensions of Early Bronze Age identities, and focus on the ideological character of mortuary practices in this article are all admirable. Yet, I find his focus on just one scale of analysis problematic. In the following comments I will grapple with the question of scales of analysis most closely, suggesting that the approach Haughton sets out can only provide one part of an effective approach.

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规模、环境、网络

马克·霍顿 (Mark Haughton) 在地方尺度上对身份协商的关注，强调年龄和性别作为青铜时代早期身份的关键维度，以及本文中对太平间实践的意识形态特征的关注，都令人钦佩。然而，我发现他只关注一种分析尺度是有问题的。在下面的评论中，我将最密切地处理分析尺度的问题，表明 Haughton 提出的方法只能提供有效方法的一部分。