New human aDNA studies have once again brought to the forefront the role of mobility and migration in shaping social phenomena in European prehistory, processes that recent theoretical frameworks in archaeology have downplayed as an outdated explanatory notion linked to traditional culture history. While these new genetic data have provided new insights into the population history of prehistoric Europe, they are frequently interpreted and presented in a manner that recalls aspects of traditional culture-historical archaeology that were rightly criticized through the 1970s to the 1990s. They include the idea that shared material culture indicates shared participation in the same social group, or culture, and that these cultures constitute one-dimensional, homogeneous, and clearly bounded social entities. Since the new aDNA data are used to create vivid narratives describing ‘massive migrations’, the so-called cultural groups are once again likened to human populations and in turn revitalized as external drivers for socio-cultural change. Here, I argue for a more nuanced consideration of molecular data that more explicitly incorporates anthropologically informed mobility and migration models.

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大规模迁移？最近的 aDNA 研究对我们对第三个千年欧洲的看法的影响

新的人类 aDNA 研究再次将流动性和迁移在塑造欧洲史前社会现象中的作用推到了最前沿，这些过程被最近的考古学理论框架淡化为与传统文化历史相关的过时解释概念。虽然这些新的基因数据为史前欧洲的人口历史提供了新的见解，但它们的解释和呈现方式经常让人想起在 1970 年代至 1990 年代受到正确批评的传统文化历史考古学的各个方面。它们包括这样一种观点，即共享的物质文化表明共同参与同一社会群体或文化，并且这些文化构成一维的、同质的和明确界定的社会实体。由于新的 aDNA 数据被用来创建描述“大规模迁移”的生动叙述，所谓的文化群体再次被比作人口，反过来又重新成为社会文化变革的外部驱动力。在这里，我主张对分子数据进行更细致的考虑，更明确地结合人类学知情的流动和迁移模型。