This essay differentiates between various branches of post-human scholarship as they relate to issues of colonial inequality, social action and politics. Through their critique of human exceptionalism, through their recognition of the vibrancy of matter, and in theirpotentialconnections with politically engaged scholarship, certain lines of post-humanist thought stand to make important contributions to archaeologies of long-term and colonial Indigenous history. I argue that these qualities offer nuanced perspectives on the plural colonial past and present of New England (north-eastern North America). I explore the prospects for a selectively post-human and pragmatic archaeology in connection with recent debates over stone landscapes. This approach makes room for various stakeholder narratives, finding possible common ground in a shared human condition between stakeholders, i.e. subject to ‘earth flows and lively stone’.

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地球流动和活泼的石头。“充满活力”的物质有什么不同？

本文区分了后人类学术的各个分支，因为它们与殖民不平等、社会行动和政治问题有关。通过他们对人类例外论的批判，通过他们对物质活力的认识，以及在他们的潜在的与政治参与的学术联系，某些后人文主义思想路线为长期和殖民土著历史的考古学做出了重要贡献。我认为，这些品质为新英格兰（北美东北部）的多元殖民过去和现在提供了细致入微的视角。结合最近关于石头景观的辩论，我探讨了选择性的后人类和实用考古学的前景。这种方法为各种利益相关者的叙述提供了空间，在利益相关者之间的共同人类条件中找到可能的共同点，即受制于“土流和活石”。