Meaningful collaborations between archaeologists and descendant communities and nations is a necessary component of archaeological practice in the 2020s and beyond. While calls for decolonising the social sciences and humanities have become a common refrain, practical methodologies for supplanting settler-colonial research practice have been less apparent. We detail how the development of independent radiocarbon-based chronologies in archaeology is one such substantive path forward. As a joint group of Indigenous and Euro-American and Euro-Canadian researchers, we outline how collaborative research agendas that privilege the knowledge and interests of descendant communities and include independent chronology building can be developed and achieved, securing mutual benefit and distributing authority in the construction of archaeologically derived Indigenous histories.

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放射性碳测年在推进土著主导的考古研究议程中的作用

考古学家与后代社区和国家之间有意义的合作是 2020 年代及以后考古实践的必要组成部分。虽然要求社会科学和人文学科非殖民化已成为一种普遍的呼声，但取代定居者殖民研究实践的实用方法却不那么明显。我们详细介绍了考古学中基于放射性碳的独立年代学的发展如何是这样一种实质性的前进道路。作为土著、欧美和欧洲-加拿大研究人员的联合小组，我们概述了如何开发和实现优先考虑后代社区的知识和兴趣并包括独立年表构建的合作研究议程，