Welcome to the first issue of the European Journal of Archaeology for 2021. I wish you all a happy new year and hope that 2021 brings us more happiness and fewer surprises than 2020 gifted us. Hopefully, this issue will provide a good start to the year! I would like to take this opportunity to welcome two new members of the editorial board: Gonca Dardeniz Arikan and Paul Johnson. Every journal operates somewhat differently; for the EJA, the editorial board plays an active and important role in reviewing submitted manuscripts and maintaining the quality of the journal. I quite literally could not produce this journal at the quality EAA members expect and deserve without the hard work and good spirits of the editorial board. The six articles included in this issue are diverse in period, region and approach, ranging from statistical modelling of radiocarbon dates from Iberian megaliths to Late Antique villas to early medieval ornamentation in Scandinavia and the Baltic. This issue also includes reviews of six books, comprising big data approaches to the archaeological record and more fine-grained edited volumes that address major areas of interest, from agriculture to the archaeology of conflict. The first paper in this issue is another piece of beautifully complex archaeological science from Iberia—a genre EJA has been lucky to showcase in recent years. In this instance, Aranda Jiménez and colleagues present the results of a radiocarbon dating program undertaken in tholos-type tombs in southeast Spain. The new chronologies of tomb use they are able to develop showcase the variety and heterogeneity of practice at these sites and allow the authors to argue that tholoi pre-dated adjacent settlements, rather than being contemporary with them. They emphasize the increasing complexity of a long-lived megalithic tradition during the Neolithic and argue that this cosmological diversity is a defining feature of the period. Over the last two decades, the emergence of metalworking and the earliest European dispersal of metal objects have garnered considerable attention. Of particular interest has been that the Scandinavian archaeological record demonstrates an early uptake of metal objects in the mid fourth millennium BC, but no obvious trace of local metallurgy. Gebauer and colleagues offer intriguing evidence that some small-scale smelting may in fact have been carried out in Denmark during this period. They present a suite of analyses on a handful of small fragments of pottery from a Funnel Beaker layer sealed beneath a late fourth millennium long barrow. The results, they argue, suggest that the analyzed pieces represent fragments of a crucible and possible tuyère. This is exciting evidence of technological practice, but also a nice example of research that makes use of extant museum collections. It is no secret that much of the material prehistoric archaeologists interpret is fragmented, but distinguishing between taphonomic and intentional breakage, not to mention European Journal of Archaeology 24 (1) 2021, 1–3

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欢迎阅读《欧洲考古学杂志》2021 年第一期。祝大家新年快乐，希望2021 年带给我们的幸福比2020 年给我们的更多，惊喜更少。希望这个问题能为新的一年提供一个良好的开端！我想借此机会欢迎编辑委员会的两位新成员：Gonca Dardeniz Arikan 和 Paul Johnson。每个期刊的运作方式都有些不同；对于 EJA 来说，编辑委员会在审查提交的手稿和维护期刊质量方面发挥着积极而重要的作用。如果没有编辑委员会的辛勤工作和良好的精神，我真的无法以 EAA 成员期望和应得的质量制作这本期刊。本期收录的六篇文章，时代、地域、手法各异，从伊比利亚巨石到晚期古董别墅到斯堪的纳维亚和波罗的海的中世纪早期装饰的放射性碳日期的统计建模。本期还包括对六本书的评论，包括考古记录的大数据方法和更精细的编辑卷，涉及从农业到冲突考古学的主要兴趣领域。本期的第一篇论文是另一篇来自伊比利亚的精美复杂的考古科学——近年来 EJA 有幸展示了一种流派。在这种情况下，Aranda Jiménez 及其同事展示了在西班牙东南部的 tholos 型墓葬中进行的放射性碳测年计划的结果。他们能够开发的新墓葬年表展示了这些地点实践的多样性和异质性，并允许作者争辩说 tholoi 早于邻近的定居点，而不是与它们同时代。他们强调新石器时代长期存在的巨石传统日益复杂，并认为这种宇宙学多样性是这一时期的一个决定性特征。在过去的二十年里，金属加工的出现和最早在欧洲传播的金属物品引起了相当大的关注。特别令人感兴趣的是，斯堪的纳维亚考古记录表明，公元前四千年中期金属物体的早期吸收，但没有明显的当地冶金痕迹。Gebauer 及其同事提供了有趣的证据，表明在此期间丹麦可能确实进行了一些小规模冶炼。他们对密封在四千年晚期长手推车下的漏斗烧杯层中的少量陶器碎片进行了一系列分析。他们争辩说，结果表明分析的碎片代表了坩埚和可能的风口的碎片。这是技术实践的令人兴奋的证据，也是利用现有博物馆藏品进行研究的一个很好的例子。众所周知，史前考古学家解释的大部分材料都是支离破碎的，但区分了埋藏学和故意破坏，更不用说欧洲考古学杂志 24 (1) 2021, 1–3 他们对密封在四千年晚期长手推车下的漏斗烧杯层中的少量陶器碎片进行了一系列分析。他们争辩说，结果表明分析的碎片代表了坩埚和可能的风口的碎片。这是技术实践的令人兴奋的证据，也是利用现有博物馆藏品进行研究的一个很好的例子。众所周知，史前考古学家解释的大部分材料都是支离破碎的，但区分了埋藏学和故意破坏，更不用说欧洲考古学杂志 24 (1) 2021, 1–3 他们对密封在四千年晚期长手推车下的漏斗烧杯层中的少量陶器碎片进行了一系列分析。他们争辩说，结果表明分析的碎片代表了坩埚和可能的风口的碎片。这是技术实践的令人兴奋的证据，也是利用现有博物馆藏品进行研究的一个很好的例子。众所周知，史前考古学家解释的大部分材料都是支离破碎的，但区分了埋藏学和故意破坏，更不用说欧洲考古学杂志 24 (1) 2021, 1–3 这是技术实践的令人兴奋的证据，也是利用现有博物馆藏品进行研究的一个很好的例子。众所周知，史前考古学家解释的大部分材料都是支离破碎的，但区分了埋藏学和故意破坏，更不用说欧洲考古学杂志 24 (1) 2021, 1–3 这是技术实践的令人兴奋的证据，也是利用现有博物馆藏品进行研究的一个很好的例子。众所周知，史前考古学家解释的大部分材料都是支离破碎的，但区分了埋藏学和故意破坏，更不用说欧洲考古学杂志 24 (1) 2021, 1–3