The chapters in this book are based on a 2015 Southeastern Archaeological Conference symposium that, as the editors state, was “met with some resistance, both from participants and from conference attendees” (p. 1). Some assumed it possessed a hidden theoretical agenda (e.g., postprocessual), but a review of theoretical paradigms in the first chapter quickly demonstrates the everyday as a theorized thing is largely absent from existing frameworks. The chapters in this book include varied responses to this absence. Specifically, they seek to illuminate how the substance of the archaeological record is the culmination of small, everyday actions. The first chapter serves as an introduction and examines the editor’s intention in creating the session and volume. The volume’s “everyday” is what it suggests: those small, common activities that form, and are in turn formed by, the eventful practices at the heart of the archaeological record, and the questions archaeologists ask of it. The remainder of the volume is divided into fourteen additional chapters. Chapters two through thirteen are divided into four broad groups: novel thinking, data-based narratives, entanglements/itineraries/biographies/lifeways, and reconsidering archaeological rarities as everyday things. The last two chapters offer alternative perspectives on the previous chapters. The first section, novel thinking, consists of two chapters. In Chapter Two, D. Shane Miller and Jesse Tune struggle to understand what the everyday looks like during the Paleoindian. After reviewing classic concepts such as Binford’s “palimpsest problem” and Martin’s “Pleistocene Overkill” model, they review more recent studies and explore how these populations may have taken advantage of flood cycles to participate in a unique southeastern form of ambush hunting. The third chapter, by Christopher B. Rodning, Jayur Madhusudan Mehta, Bryan S. Haley, and David J. Watt draws on chaos theory to inspire an examination of the varied impacts European contact and colonization had on Mississippian communities across the region, increasingly referred to as a “shatter zone” by anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians. They seek the everyday by contextualizing these locally-specific experiences within a growing global colonial system. I found both chapters thought-provoking, and I’m confident anyone working during these periods will find utility in them. The second section examines data-based narratives. It consists of three fictional accounts derived from various data. In Chapter Four Lance Greene draws on evidence from a Cherokee house site in southwestern North Carolina. He bases his fictional account on floral and faunal remains as well as a material assemblage associated with a short-term communal event to connect past lives with present audiences as an act of public outreach. The fifth chapter, by Kandace D. Hollenbach and Stephen B. Carmody uses subsistence data from the Early Archaic to fictionalize several days across several seasons in the life of a young girl in the middle Tennessee Valley. These authors present a novel use of human behavioral ecology in crafting their narrative. In Chapter Six, Ashley A. Dumas challenges archaeologists to embrace the imaginative work undertaken by museum professionals and other heritage workers who regularly engage the public. This chapter uses ethnographic and archaeological evidence to discuss the everyday aspects associated with the prehistoric production of salt in the southeastern US. All the authors in this section convincingly argue that fictionalizations can contribute to theory building, public outreach, and humanizing archaeological subjects. I agree and thoroughly enjoyed all their creative stories. The third section includes four chapters examining entanglements, itineraries, biographies, and lifeways as paths to understanding the everyday. Chapter Seven, by Christopher R. Moore and Richard W. Jefferies looks at human/animal relations during the Middle Archaic as a way to move past the extractive language dominating so many Archaic studies. The authors pair ethnographic accounts of modern hunting societies with archaeological data from Illinois and Kentucky to showcase the cultural, social, and symbolic importance that white-tailed deer held for human populations. In the eighth chapter, Asa R. Randall and Zackary I. Gilmore similarly question assumptions of Archaic lifeways as simple and monotonous by showing how the everyday and extraordinary were intimately linked. Their evidence centers on the creation, transport, and apparent relatedness of shell and early ceramic vessels in the St. Johns River area of Florida. Their thorough review posits the intriguing possibility that certain shell features were transposed onto specific pottery forms traversing the mundane and rare by connecting the everyday with the extraordinary. Chapter Nine, by Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Martin Menz, and Lori O’Neal examines the everyday networks of relationships between people and objects in the Middle and Late Woodland periods. Their far-ranging review of recent approaches to cross-craft and multicraft

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调查平凡：东南考古中的日常事务

本书中的章节基于 2015 年东南考古会议研讨会，正如编辑所说，“遇到了来自参与者和与会者的一些阻力”（第 1 页）。有些人认为它具有隐藏的理论议程（例如，后处理），但第一章中对理论范式的回顾很快表明，作为理论化事物的日常生活在现有框架中基本上是缺失的。本书中的章节包括对这种缺席的不同回应。具体来说，他们试图阐明考古记录的实质如何成为日常小行动的顶点。第一章作为引言，考察了编者创建会话和卷的意图。该卷的“日常”就是它所暗示的：那些形成的小而常见的活动，并且反过来又由考古记录核心的多事的实践以及考古学家提出的问题形成。本书的其余部分分为十四章。第二至十三章分为四大组：新颖的思维、基于数据的叙事、纠缠/行程/传记/生活方式，以及将考古稀有事物重新考虑为日常事物。最后两章提供了对前几章的替代观点。第一部分，新颖的思想，由两章组成。在第二章中，D. Shane Miller 和 Jesse Tune 努力理解古印度人的日常生活。在回顾了 Binford 的“palimpsest problem”和 Martin 的“Pleistocene Overkill”模型等经典概念后，他们回顾了最近的研究，并探讨了这些人口如何利用洪水周期参与独特的东南部伏击狩猎形式。第三章由 Christopher B. Rodning、Jayur Madhusudan Mehta、Bryan S. Haley 和 David J. Watt 撰写，利用混沌理论来激发对欧洲接触和殖民化对该地区密西西比社区的各种影响的研究，越来越多地提及被人类学家、考古学家和历史学家称为“破碎地带”。他们通过在不断增长的全球殖民体系中将这些特定于当地的经历置于背景中来寻求日常生活。我发现这两章都发人深省，我相信在这些时期工作的任何人都会发现其中的实用性。第二部分检查基于数据的叙述。它由来自各种数据的三个虚构帐户组成。在第四章中，Lance Greene 从北卡罗来纳州西南部的切诺基住宅区中汲取了证据。他的虚构描述基于花卉和动物遗骸以及与短期公共事件相关的物质组合，将过去的生活与现在的观众联系起来，作为一种公共宣传行为。第五章，Kandace D. Hollenbach 和 Stephen B. Carmody 使用早期古风时期的生存数据虚构了田纳西河谷中部一个年轻女孩在几个季节中的几天。这些作者展示了人类行为生态学在创作叙事中的新用途。在第六章中，Ashley A. 大仲马挑战考古学家接受博物馆专业人员和其他经常与公众互动的遗产工作者进行的富有想象力的工作。本章使用人种学和考古学证据来讨论与美国东南部史前盐业生产相关的日常事务。本节中的所有作者都令人信服地认为，虚构化有助于理论构建、公共宣传和考古主题的人性化。我同意并非常喜欢他们所有的创意故事。第三部分包括四章，研究纠缠、行程、传记和生活方式作为理解日常生活的途径。第七章，Christopher R. Moore 和 Richard W. 杰弗里斯着眼于中古风时期的人类/动物关系，将其视为超越主导如此多古风研究的提取语言的一种方式。作者将现代狩猎社会的民族志描述与伊利诺伊州和肯塔基州的考古数据相结合，展示了白尾鹿对人类的文化、社会和象征意义。在第八章中，Asa R. R. Randall 和 Zackary I. Gilmore 通过展示日常与非凡的密切联系，同样质疑古代生活方式的假设简单而单调。他们的证据集中在佛罗里达州圣约翰河地区贝壳和早期陶瓷容器的创造、运输和明显的相关性。他们的彻底审查提出了一种有趣的可能性，即通过将日常与非凡联系起来，某些贝壳特征被转换到特定的陶器形式上，穿越平凡和稀有。由 Thomas J. Pluckhahn、Martin Menz 和 Lori O'Neal 撰写的第 9 章研究了林地中期和晚期人与物之间的日常关系网络。他们对跨工艺和多工艺的最新方法的广泛回顾