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Variation in bioavailable lead, copper, and strontium concentrations in human skeletons from medieval to early modern Denmark Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jesper L. Boldsen, Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, George R. Milner, Vicki R.L. Kristensen, Lilian Skytte, Stig Bergmann Møller, Torben Birk Sarauw, Charlotte Boje Hilligsø Andersen, Lars Agersnap Larsen, Inger Marie Hyldgaard, Mette Klingenberg, Lars Krants Larsen, Lene Mollerup, Lone Seeberg, Lars Christian Bentsen, Morten Søvsø, Tenna Kristensen, Jakob Tue Christensen, Poul Baltzer Heide, Lone C. Nørgaard
Three trace elements in human bones permit the delineation of temporal and social variability among medieval to early modern Danes in what they ate (strontium, Sr) and whether they lived in an urban or non-urban setting (lead, Pb; copper, Cu). The chemical composition of bones from 332 children (5 to 12 years old) buried in 51 Danish cemeteries was estimated through Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass
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Modeling Archaic land use and mobility in north-central Belize Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Marieka Brouwer Burg, Eleanor Harrison-Buck
The Archaic period has not been as widely studied in Mesoamerica as it has been in other parts of the Americas. This problem stems from intractable issues such as low archaeological visibility and high post-depositional disturbance. And, while existing Archaic data from northern Belize indicates that foraging groups practiced diverse adaptations, little theoretical effort has been dedicated toward
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Traditional adhesive production systems in Zambia and their archaeological implications Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sebastian Fajardo, Jelte Zeekaf, Tinde van Andel, Christabel Maombe, Terry Nyambe, George Mudenda, Alessandro Aleo, Martha Nchimunya Kayuni, Geeske H.J. Langejans
This study explores traditional adhesives using an ethnobiological approach within a multisocioecological context in Zambia. Through semi-structured interviews, videotaped demonstrations, and herbarium collections, we investigated the traditional adhesives people know and use, the flexibility of production processes, resource usage, and knowledge transmission in adhesive production. Our findings reveal
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Metaphoric veiled image-schema of kinship organization in ceremonial space: A south Andean case Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Tom D. Dillehay
This study is an interdisciplinary approach to a veiled metaphoric design expressed in the present-day spatial layout of ecologically-derived patronyms of Mapuche lineages and families positioned in public ceremonial plazas. The perspective combines ethnoarchaeological, cognitive, iconographic, oral tradition, allegoric metaphor, and historical approaches to the organization and meaning of this design
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Ritual networks and the structure of moral communities in Classic Maya society Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Jessica Munson, Matthew Looper, Jonathan Scholnick
Ritual plays an important integrative function in the creation, maintenance, and transformation of human society. The shared experience of ritual establishes strong bonds between individuals that defines their membership in certain social groups. However, rituals are not timeless traditions, nor do they simply restore social equilibrium. Rather, rituals are active and ongoing social processes that
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Spatial and temporal trends in the distribution of engraved eggshell fragments: A comparative view from the Holocene archaeological record of southern Africa and southern South America Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Natalia Carden, Gustavo Martínez, Peter Mitchell, Jayson Orton
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Making places in the world: An ethnographic review and archaeologic perspective on hunter-gatherer relationships with trees Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Paula C. Ugalde, Steven L. Kuhn
Despite the importance of trees in the lives of hunter-gatherers, the economic, cultural, and spiritual roles of trees have been seldom explored empirically or theoretically. What research exists on the topic has mostly focused on economic aspects, especially firewood management, consumption of edible tree products, and tool manufacture. Here, we summarize data collected from 104 ethnographies on hunter-gatherers
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Settling the record: 3,000 years of continuity and growth in a Coast Salish settlement constellation Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Patrick Morgan Ritchie, Jerram Ritchie, Michael Blake, Eric Simons, Dana Lepofsky
For Indigenous people across the globe, being connected to traditional lands and histories continues to be of paramount importance. To document this connection on one river system in the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, we compiled archaeological evidence from 14 settlements occupied between 3,000 years ago and the early 20th century. We demonstrate how households and lineages persisted inter-generationally
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Archaeologiques of sight: The visual world fosters the engagement between doing, seeing, and thinking Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Felipe Criado-Boado, Luis M. Martínez, Manuel J. Blanco, Diego Alonso-Pablos, Jadranka Verdonkschot
The paper examines how materializations of human practices relate to human cognition and to socio-cultural contexts. By combining evidence on the relationship between material culture and perceptual behaviour, we aim to understand the interactions between the mind, objects, and the world. The research is based on data regarding the visual perception of prehistoric pottery that was analyzed using Eye-Tracking
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Collectivism and new identities after the Black Death Pandemic: Merchant diasporas and incorporative local communities in West Africa Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Stephen A. Dueppen, Daphne Gallagher
Merchant diasporas have significantly influenced local and interregional processes in world history, but archaeology is only starting to understand the diversity of political, economic, social and religious contexts within which they developed. Recent research has suggested that the second plague pandemic (Black Death) likely affected West Africa. However, little is known regarding the diversity of
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Surf & Turf: The role of intensification and surplus production in the development of social complexity in coastal vs terrestrial habitats Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 James L. Boone, Asia Alsgaard
Social complexity in coastal and terrestrial environments both emerge as forms of subsistence intensification on previous foraging patterns but take different trajectories because of differences in the spatial and temporal structure and density of harvestable biomass between the two ecozones. Norms and values surrounding standards of living motivate households to intensify production above what is
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Actualistic butchery studies in zooarchaeology: Where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we want to go Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Charles P. Egeland, Briana L. Pobiner, Stephen R. Merritt, Suzanne Kunitz
Carcass butchery is a culturally mediated behavior that reflects the technological, social, economic, and ecological factors that influence human diet and foodways. Butchery behavior can thus reveal a great deal about the lives of past peoples. Actualism provides a critical link between the dynamics of carcass butchery and the static remains of the archaeological record. This study provides an overview
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Diet, Status, and incipient social Inequality: Stable isotope data from three complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer sites in southern California Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Mikael Fauvelle, Andrew D. Somerville
How different were the lives of elites and commoners in early complex societies? This paper examines this question using data from three fisher-hunter-gatherer sites in southern California. Using shell bead counts from burials as proxies for social status and previously published human stable isotope values as indicators of dietary practices, we examine the relationship between diet and status across
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Clientage, debt, and the integrative orientation of non-elites on the East African Swahili coast Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Wolfgang Alders
Ceramic trends on Unguja Island in Zanzibar, Tanzania provide insights into non-elite political strategies on the East African Swahili Coast. Synthesizing imported ceramic data from two seasons of systematic field survey across rural Unguja with historical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence from coastal East Africa, this paper argues that an integrative orientation toward power characterized
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Editorial Board Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-11-27
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Urbanizing food: New perspectives on food processing tools in the Early Bronze Age villages and early urban centers of the southern Levant Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Karolina Hruby, Danny Rosenberg
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A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Mark Golitko
Network analysis has become increasingly common within archaeological practice, yet little consensus exists as to what networks based on material culture actually reveal about ancient social life. One common approach to archaeological network inference relies on constructing similarity networks based on shared material types or stylistic categories between archaeological sites or contexts. Many studies
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The Neolithic ceremonial centre at Nowe Objezierze (NW Poland) and its biography from the perspective of the palynological record Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Lech Czerniak, Anna Pędziszewska, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Tomasz Goslar, Agnieszka Matuszewska, Monika Niska, Marek Podlasiński, Wojciech Tylmann
Rondels are the oldest monumental ceremonial objects in Europe. They appeared some 200 years after the demise of the Linear Pottery culture (c. 4800 BCE). They have given a new shape to the resurgent 'Danubian Neolithic World'. However, despite intensive research, it is still unclear (1) how the transition process took place after the fall of the LBK; (2) how long rondels were function; and (3) under
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Music archaeology in Latin America: Bridging method and interpretation with performance Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Dianne Scullin, Alexander Herrera
To practice music archaeology is to enter into a dialogue between the humanities and the sciences, social and otherwise. Music archaeology is part of the humanistic study of past sounded behaviour, ritual practice, and soundscapes, as well as a global history of discursive representations about humans' capacity for music. It is also the scientific inquiry of sound technology through time, of materials
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Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Whittaker Schroder, Timothy Murtha, Charles Golden, Madeline Brown, Robert Griffin, Kelsey E. Herndon, Shanti Morell-Hart, Andrew K. Scherer
The emergence and expansion of inequality have been topics of household archaeology for decades. Traditionally, this question has been informed by ethnographic, ethnohistoric and/or comparative studies. Within sites and regions, comparative physical, spatial, and architectural studies of households offer an important baseline of information about status, wealth, and well-being, especially in the Maya
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Constructing a borderlands in the ancient international four corners: Settlement layout, architecture, and mortuary practices in thirteenth through fifteenth century CE villages along the contemporary united states-Mexico border Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers
Archaeological interpretations for the seemingly sudden introduction of new types of material culture or cultural practice often include attribution to the arrival of a migrant population as part the construction of a periphery or frontier zone. In the International Four Corners area of the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest, archaeologists often correlate the ascendancy of Paquimé in the late thirteenth
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Classic Maya figurines as materials of socialization: Evidence from Ceibal, Guatemala Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Jessica MacLellan, Daniela Triadan
We examine Late and Terminal Classic (c. 600–950 CE) Maya ceramic figurine whistles from Ceibal, Guatemala, as materials of socialization. The figurines are mold-made and represent repeating characters, including humans, animals, and supernaturals. Based on mortuary and other contextual evidence, we argue that they were used for household performances among adults and children. Figurines were everyday
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Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Simon Carrignon, R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O'Brien
Cultural-evolutionary modeling of archaeological data faces numerous challenges, perhaps the most significant being the mismatch between models of microscale activities and the macroevolutionary scale of the archaeological record. This is especially the case with identifying different kinds of social learning reflected in the record. Here we present a computational approach to social learning using
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Considering Urbanism at Mound Key (Caalus), the capital of the Calusa in the 16th Century, Southwest Florida, USA Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Victor D. Thompson
In 1566, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés arrived at Mound Key, the capital of the Calusa polity. What he saw there was unlike anything else he would encounter in La Florida, a capital teaming with people and complex architecture that was essentially a terraformed anthropogenic island constructed mostly of mollusk shells situated in the middle of Estero Bay. The Calusa literally raised this landscape—51 ha
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Profiling the people behind clay figurines: Technological trace and fingerprint analysis applied to ancient Egypt (Lahun village, MBA II, c. 1800–1700 BC) Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Vanessa Forte, Gianluca Miniaci
Clay figurines represent one of the ideal object categories for tracing the profile of their makers since they preserve traces of the maker’s gestures. The scope of the article is to reconstruct the different manufacturing steps of clay figurines, assess the complexity of the shaping sequences and study fingerprints to trace the profile of people who produced such artefacts in the ancient village of
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Editorial Board Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-08-18
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Late Maritime Woodland period hunter-fisher-gatherer complexity in the Far Northeast: Toward an historical and contingent approach Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 M. Gabriel Hrynick, Matthew W. Betts
We review archaeological research from the Late Maritime Woodland period (1300–550 cal BP) on the Maritime Peninsula and argue that there is substantial evidence for sociocultural and economic hunter-fisher-gatherer complexity prior to the arrival of Europeans. This is relevant because the region was the stage for some of the earliest contacts between Indigenous and European peoples in the Americas
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Cranial injuries as evidence for violent conflict during the Gallinazo Phase in the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Patricia M. Lambert
In this study cranial injuries in human skeletal remains from the site of Cerro Oreja in the Moche Valley of north coastal Peru provide a proxy measure of violence during the Gallinazo Phase preceding the rise of the Southern Moche State and are used to assess the role that violent conflict may have played in state formation. Both healed and perimortem cranial vault fractures are present in the sample
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New fingerprint evidence for female potters in Late Bronze Age Canaan: The demographics of potters and division of labour at Tel Burna Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Jon Ross, Kent D. Fowler, Itzhaq Shai
Techno-stylistic studies in ceramic analysis have largely focused on characterising production groups, based on the similarity of various objects and how they were made. The demographics of potters and the division of labour often remain enigmatic in current chaîne opératoire research. A growing number of biometric studies have demonstrated the potential of fingerprints preserved on ceramic surfaces
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Response to Emily Hammer’s article: “Multi-centric, Marsh-based urbanism at the early Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al Hiba, Iraq)” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Holly Pittman, Reed Goodman, Sara Pizzimenti, Paul Zimmerman, Jennifer Pournelle, Liviu Giosan
Remote-sensing techniques play an important role in the resumption of archaeological research in southern Iraq. These tools are especially powerful when ground-truthed through excavation and survey, and when informed by local environmental histories. This response engages with propositions put forward by Hammer (2022): “Multi-centric, Marsh-based urbanism at the early Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell
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Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650–1550): A multi-method chemical and petrographic approach Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
Archaeologists have long relied on material proxies of labor organization to identify different social formations. Conventional wisdom holds that specialization is particularly integral in developing hierarchical states, and that hunter-gatherers are typically “generalists” provisioning their immediate household and community. However, archaeological evidence from eastern North America challenges these
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Understanding multi-sited early village communities of the American Southeast through categorical identities and relational connections Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Neill J. Wallis, Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Early villages are often assumed to be economically and politically autonomous and equivalent to an archaeological socio-spatial unit that represents a maximum scale of cohesive residential communities. But the boundaries of some communities extended far beyond such sites of early population aggregation. In the coastal plain of the American Southeast, early village communities of the Middle and Late
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Chinchorro fibre management in the Atacama Desert and its significance for understanding Andean textilization processes Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Indira Montt, Daniela Valenzuela, Barbara Cases, Calogero M. Santoro, José M. Capriles, Vivien G. Standen
Textilization processes envisioned as technological transformation of animal fibres and the incorporation of textiles into human bodies, is analyzed among Chinchorro hunter gatherers, along the hyperarid Pacific coast of the Atacama Desert throughout the Holocene (ca. 7800–3500 cal BP). The Chinchorro, as producers and consumers of South American camelid fibres and textiles, created a range of textilized
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Plant use and peasant politics under Inka and Spanish rule at Ollantaytambo, Peru Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 R. Alexander Hunter, Luis Huamán Mesía
In the Andes, successive waves of Inka and Spanish imperialism reshaped local ecologies and transformed agricultural practices between the 14th and 17th centuries. As the Inka (ca. 1450–1532CE) consolidated control over the region they co-opted existing resources, directed the development of new farmland, and imposed new labor obligations on Andean people. In turn, Spanish colonizers (1533-1824CE)
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Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq) Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Emily Hammer
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On the pathways. Inter-nodal archaeology in the Atacama desert Pampa (c. 7000 BP-400 BP) Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Gonzalo Pimentel G., Mariana Ugarte F., José F. Blanco, Claudia Montero-Poblete, Juan Gili, Javier Arévalo, Francisco Gallardo, Christina M. Torres, William J. Pestle
We present a synthesis of our investigation into pre-Hispanic pathways of the Atacama Desert Pampa -one of the driest and harshest environments on our planet- where we have identified a variety of mobility strategies and dynamics deployed by the different communities that inhabited both the Pacific coast and the inland oases of this region. Specifically, we focus on the inter-nodal archaeological and
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Revisiting cremation practices of the Pastoral Neolithic in Kenya Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Lorraine W. Hu
As global archaeological studies of cremation increasingly integrate detailed methodology alongside mortuary theory, case studies from sedentary, agricultural societies – most commonly from Europe and North America - still dominate. This paper examines the earliest known cremation tradition from Africa, associated with a period termed the Pastoral Neolithic c. 3300–1200 BP, at the sites of Njoro River
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From the ashes of Bronze Age fires: A framework for comparison across body treatments Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Györgyi Parditka, Paul R. Duffy
Archaeologists in the Carpathian Basin are increasingly focused on social variability across the Bronze Age landscape. However, when it comes to mortuary variability, the difference in body treatments (cremation and inhumation) between populations impairs our ability to carry out regional comparisons and appreciate the range of community social organizations. In this paper, we compare mortuary assemblages
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‘Braiding Knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Amy Roberts, Craig Westell, Marc Fairhead, Juan Marquez Lopez
This paper uses a ‘braided knowledge’ approach to explore Aboriginal ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence relating to the Murray River (Rinta) in South Australia’s Riverland region. The 'knowledge carriers’ of ancestral narratives are honoured and complexities regarding the ways in which their wisdom was recorded by Europeans are considered. Commonalities
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Mapping human mobility and analyzing spatial memory: palimpsest landscapes of movement in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Cecilia Dal Zovo, César Parcero-Oubiña, A. César González-García, Alejandro Güimil-Fariña
The significance of local spatial choices and memory and their impact on mobility networks is scarcely recognised in Mongolian archaeology. Here, we present a mapping strategy aimed at disentangling the landscapes of movement and investigating the materiality that accumulated in the palimpsest of the Ikh Bogd Uul Mountain (Bayankhongor, Mongolia). Based on an integrated and diachronic approach, our
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Late Holocene tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) resource depression and distant patch use in central California: Faunal and isotopic evidence from King Brown and the Emeryville Shellmound Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jack M. Broughton, Michael J. Broughton, Kasey E. Cole, Daniel M. Dalmas, Joan Brenner Coltrain
Previous research has documented declines in the abundance of high-return resources including tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) over the past three millennia in central California, suggesting the occurrence of resource depression. We test the hypothesis that hunting depressed tule elk in this setting by articulating stable isotope analyses from 88 directly dated tule elk specimens with data on
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Pounding the ground for the thunder god: Sounding platforms in the Prehispanic Andes (CE 1000–1532) Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Kevin Lane
The past is silent, or mostly so, yet sound can open a window to this same past. Early Spanish colonial ethnohistoric sources from the Andes are littered with references to indigenous dancing and music as an accompaniment to ritual and feasts. Recent archaeological research in the upper Ica Drainage on the late Prehispanic (CE 1000–1532) site of Viejo Sangayaico has revealed an open-air platform potentially
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Just scratching the surface: Post-fire engravings as ancient Andean writing Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Michelle Young, Anita Cook
We present analyses of post-fire engravings (PFEs), scratched markings made in the surface of ceramic vessels, from the sites of Atalla (800–500 BCE) and Huari (600–1000 CE), Peru. We compare engraved motifs, the vessel forms on which they appear, their placement on vessels, and the contexts in which they were found at Atalla and Huari to other examples mentioned in the Andean and international archaeological
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Reconstructing and testing neighborhoods at the Maya city of Caracol, Belize Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Adrian S.Z. Chase
Present theory suggests that neighborhoods form through frequent, repeated face-to-face interactions among people in groups of spatially co-located residences. Over time, layered interactions create relational identities (through face-to-face contact) and categorical identities (through perceived similarities). Neighborhood identity, when present, indicates a union of both relational and categorical
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Palynological studies shed new light on the Neolithisation process in central Europe Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Lech Czerniak, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Anna Pędziszewska, Tomasz Goslar, Agnieszka Matuszewska
A precisely dated, high-resolution palynological profile shows that around 5680 BCE a community that grew crops and raised livestock settled on the northern periphery of the area later covered by the LBK colonisations. This indicates that pioneer farmers reached this region around 300 years earlier than estimated by recognised models of the Neolithisation process. These findings point to the need for
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Archaeological networks, community detection, and critical scales of interaction in the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Matthew A. Peeples, Robert J. Bischoff
Archaeologists have long recognized that spatial relationships are an important influence on and driver of all manner of social processes at scales from the local to the continental. Recent research in the realm of complex networks focused on community detection in human and animal networks suggests that there may be certain critical scales at which spatial interactions can be partitioned, allowing
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Social networks and community features: Identifying neighborhoods in a WWII Japanese American incarceration center Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 April Kamp-Whittaker
Socially defined neighborhoods develop through frequent face to face interactions among residents and their self-identification as neighbors. While archaeological evidence of neighborhoods is usually dependent on artifact frequencies, boundaries, or shared features, this paper explores how effectively communal features act as proxies for social interactions. Network data drawn from historic newspapers
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Ancient DNA and migrations: New understandings and misunderstandings Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 David W. Anthony
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Commensality as social integration in Neolithic Çatalhöyük: Pottery, faunal, and architectural approaches Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Kamilla Pawłowska, Joanna Pyzel, Marek Z. Barański, Mélanie Roffet-Salque
We have considered a range of commensality in Neolithic Çatalhöyük using ceramics, animal bones, and architecture. Integrating the data allowed us to capture the change in commensal practices over the Final occupational phase (ca. 6300–5950 cal BC). The shift from community commensality to family commensality is marked by a decrease in the size of jars, accompanied by slight changes in the size of
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The heterarchical life and spatial analyses of the historical Buddhist temples in the Chiang Saen Basin, Northern Thailand Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Piyawit Moonkham, Nattasit Srinurak, Andrew I. Duff
Social hierarchy is the most prominent framework scholars use to examine settlement structure and development in Southeast Asia's pre- and post-state eras. The concept of social heterarchy, an unfixed ranked and diversified form of social structure, is an alternative approach to examining the sociopolitical organization of early settlements in the region. However, applications of heterarchy are limited
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Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange? Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Daniela Saghessi, María Laura López, Alejandro Serna, Luciano Prates
This paper discusses the maize consumption record among hunter-gatherers outside assumed production areas in northeastern Patagonia. We evaluated if this anomalous record is the result of occasional events of local production/consumption; the transport of the microremains in the teeth of individuals after consuming maize in non-local production areas; or the local consumption of maize after its transport/exchange
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All our relations: The Grandview site and ancestral Huron-Wendat gathering logics Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Christopher Watts, Ronald F. Williamson, Louis Lesage
Together with the development of ancestral Huron-Wendat village life in what is now southern Ontario, Canada, unusual deposits consisting of animal parts, small stones, and manufactured items such as smoking pipes were occasionally sequestered in sweat lodges, longhouse post holes, and other features. In instances where such deposits have received comment, most turn on notions of ritual behavior that
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Javelin use among Ethiopia’s last indigenous hunters: Variability and further constraints on tip cross-sectional geometry Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Yonatan Sahle, Seid Ahmed, Samuel J. Dira
Ethnographically known weapon systems are crucial for the functional interpretation of pertinent archaeological materials. The tip cross-sectional geometries of North American ethnographic projectiles are particularly widely used as standards against which the probable functions of archaeological stone points are assessed. While their known weapon-delivery mechanisms make these North American samples
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Transformations in the roles of men, women, and children in the ceramic industry at Early Bronze Age Hama, Syria and contemporary sites Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Akiva Sanders, Stephen Lumsden, Andrew T. Burchill, Georges Mouamar
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“For there is no rock”: Lucayan stone celts from the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos islands Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Joanna Ostapkowicz, Rick J. Schulting, Gareth R. Davies
This paper presents the first systematic study of pre-Columbian imported stone celts recovered from the limestone islands of the Lucayan archipelago, comprising The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands of the northern Caribbean/West Atlantic. The majority derive from antiquarian collections and early archaeological investigations, prior to the destruction of many sites due to guano mining and development;
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Color as a key characteristic in the terminal pleistocene fluted-point-period lithic economy in northeastern North America Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Nathaniel Kitchel
Red chert attributed to a small number of outcrops within the Munsungun Lake formation, northern Maine is nearly ubiquitous in late Pleistocene Fluted-Point-Period (FPP) archaeological sites throughout northeastern North America, including at sites hundreds of kilometers from this source. Red Munsungun chert also appears more frequently in FPP sites than any other material type in the region. The frequency
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Early postglacial hunter-gatherers show environmentally driven “false logistic” growth in a low productivity environment Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Mikael A. Manninen, Guro Fossum, Therese Ekholm, Per Persson
Studies that employ probability distributions of radiocarbon dates to study past population size often use exponential increase in radiocarbon dates with time as a standard of comparison for detecting population fluctuations. We show that in the case of early postglacial interior Scandinavia, however, the summed probability distribution of radiocarbon dates has best fit with a S-shaped logistic growth
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Red Queen in Australia Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Peter Hiscock, Kim Sterelny
Change in Holocene Australia is typically depicted as establishing greater control over the environment, with heightened prosperity, growth of social complexity, status competition, intergroup congregation, and population. Endogenous social processes altered Australian forager life yielding, on average, increased per capita output. Those claims were named Intensification. We critique that concept,
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Extraction strategies and technological tradition at late pre-Hispanic quarries, southern Peru (ca. 1000–1532 CE) Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Julia E. Earle, Jhon P. Cruz Quiñones
Studies of Inka quarry operations have focused on large-scale quarries in the Inka imperial heartland, with emphasis on finishing techniques and geochemical sourcing. To assess diachronic variation in the technological organization of late pre-Hispanic building stone extraction, we compare survey data from the Chuquibamba District (Arequipa Region) – an Inka provincial context – and the Sacred Valley