Pub Date : 2018-07-26DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9121-3
Graeme Warren
This contribution will provide a critical overview of the other papers within this special issue of Journal of World Prehistory (Elliott and Little 2018), identifying key aspects of the discussion and assessing potentials and problems in the development of Mesolithic archaeology in Britain and Ireland as a whole since 2006 (Conneller and Warren in Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New approaches, Stroud, Tempus, 2006a). Reflections will include how the contribution of very high-resolution analyses to Mesolithic archaeology has changed since 2006 and the scale of our interpretations. The review will also identify areas which appear to be falling from analytical focus, including the role of analogies in Mesolithic archaeology and the nature of power and social relationships in Mesolithic communities.
本文将对本期《世界史前史杂志》(Elliott and Little 2018)特刊中的其他论文进行批判性概述，确定讨论的关键方面，并评估自2006年以来英国和爱尔兰整体中石器时代考古学发展的潜力和问题(Conneller和Warren in Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New approaches, Stroud, Tempus, 2006a)。反思将包括自2006年以来，高分辨率分析对中石器时代考古学的贡献是如何变化的，以及我们解释的规模。审查还将确定似乎从分析重点中脱落的领域，包括类比在中石器时代考古学中的作用以及中石器时代社区中权力和社会关系的性质。
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Pub Date : 2018-07-17DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9120-4
E. Blinkhorn, Aimée Little
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Pub Date : 2018-06-22DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9119-x
Ben Elliott, Seren Griffiths
British and Irish Mesolithic studies have long been characterized by a reliance on broad-scale lithic typologies, both to provide chronologies, and in discussion of ‘cultural’ groups. More recently, traditional narrative structures—period definitions of ‘Early’ and ‘Late’, or culture typologies—have been complemented by a host of other evidence. This has included new studies of site stratigraphy, evidence for seasonality, and material culture chaîne opératoire chronologies, which place a greater emphasis on both temporal precision and the lived experiences of Mesolithic peoples. This paper will consider how the study of organic artefacts forces these narrative scales into acute focus, and presents an opportunity to explore the challenges in synthesizing different forms of data. We discuss how the evidence from sites in Ireland and Britain allows for new approaches, and highlight some of the challenges that this evidence presents, not least the perennial issue of moving from site-specific data to broader narratives. While the nature of earlier prehistoric evidence makes this an especially obvious issue for Mesolithic studies, it is one which generally besets archaeology. We suggest that in order to move beyond this in earlier prehistoric studies specifically, we need to make better use of all evidence sources, however seemingly prosaic, including antiquarian collections in museums, and chance and casual finds. Only by including the raft of available data, and recognizing its utility beyond the sum of individual apparently uninspiring parts, can we begin to move from generalizing narratives to more nuanced archaeological understandings of past material worlds.
{"title":"Living Mesolithic Time: Narratives, Chronologies and Organic Material Culture","authors":"Ben Elliott, Seren Griffiths","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9119-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9119-x","url":null,"abstract":"British and Irish Mesolithic studies have long been characterized by a reliance on broad-scale lithic typologies, both to provide chronologies, and in discussion of ‘cultural’ groups. More recently, traditional narrative structures—period definitions of ‘Early’ and ‘Late’, or culture typologies—have been complemented by a host of other evidence. This has included new studies of site stratigraphy, evidence for seasonality, and material culture <i>chaîne opératoire</i> chronologies, which place a greater emphasis on both temporal precision and the lived experiences of Mesolithic peoples. This paper will consider how the study of organic artefacts forces these narrative scales into acute focus, and presents an opportunity to explore the challenges in synthesizing different forms of data. We discuss how the evidence from sites in Ireland and Britain allows for new approaches, and highlight some of the challenges that this evidence presents, not least the perennial issue of moving from site-specific data to broader narratives. While the nature of earlier prehistoric evidence makes this an especially obvious issue for Mesolithic studies, it is one which generally besets archaeology. We suggest that in order to move beyond this in earlier prehistoric studies specifically, we need to make better use of all evidence sources, however seemingly prosaic, including antiquarian collections in museums, and chance and casual finds. Only by including the raft of available data, and recognizing its utility beyond the sum of individual apparently uninspiring parts, can we begin to move from generalizing narratives to more nuanced archaeological understandings of past material worlds.","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"53 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-12DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9118-y
Paul Richard Preston, Thomas Kador
The Mesolithic communities of northwest Europe have generally been considered inherently mobile, and all the material evidence associated with them has been interpreted accordingly. This has resulted in entrenched, theoretically polemical and largely hypothetical mobility models, focusing on seasonal rounds and extraction activities. However, recent reanalyses of the ethnographic sources, and discoveries of both substantial and ephemeral Mesolithic structures, as well as new data from recent innovative lithic and scientific analyses (including DNA, isotope research on human remains, and geochemical analyses of lithic artefacts), have forced us to rethink the rather static models of Mesolithic mobility strategies. This paper, examining Mesolithic hunter-gatherer mobility and settlement models from Britain and Ireland, is part of that reassessment. In particular, it assesses the impact of the multiple lines of consilience on our understanding of Mesolithic habitation of landscapes. These include the archaeological evidence and the efficacy of recent theoretical and methodological approaches that have been employed to interpret it.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-29DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9115-1
Wei Chu
Early Upper Paleolithic sites in the Danube catchment have been put forward as evidence that the river was an important conduit for modern humans during their initial settlement of Europe. Central to this model is the Carpathian Basin, a region covering most of the Middle Danube. As the archaeological record of this region is still poorly understood, this paper aims to provide a contextual assessment of the Carpathian Basin’s geological and paleoenvironmental archives, starting with the late Upper Pleistocene. Subsequently, it compiles early Upper Paleolithic data from the region to provide a synchronic appraisal of the Aurignacian archaeological evidence. It then uses this data to test whether the relative absence of early Upper Paleolithic sites is obscured by a taphonomic bias. Finally, it reviews current knowledge of the Carpathian Basin’s archaeological record and concludes that, while it cannot reject the Danube corridor hypothesis, further (geo)archaeological work is required to understand the link between the Carpathian Basin and Central and Southeastern Europe.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-29DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9116-0
Nicholas Overton, B. Taylor
{"title":"Humans in the Environment: Plants, Animals and Landscapes in Mesolithic Britain and Ireland","authors":"Nicholas Overton, B. Taylor","doi":"10.1007/s10963-018-9116-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9116-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":"31 1","pages":"385 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10963-018-9116-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52463783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9113-3
A. Blanco-González, K. Lillios, J. López‐Sáez, B. Drake
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01Epub Date: 2018-05-19DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9114-2
Leonardo García Sanjuán, Juan Manuel Vargas Jiménez, Luis Miguel Cáceres Puro, Manuel Eleazar Costa Caramé, Marta Díaz-Guardamino Uribe, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Álvaro Fernández Flores, Víctor Hurtado Pérez, Pedro M López Aldana, Elena Méndez Izquierdo, Ana Pajuelo Pando, Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal, David Wheatley, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Antonio Delgado-Huertas, Elaine Dunbar, Adrián Mora González, Alex Bayliss, Nancy Beavan, Derek Hamilton, Alasdair Whittle
The great site of Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville in the lower Guadalquivir valley of southwest Spain, is presented in the context of debate about the nature of Copper Age society in southern Iberia as a whole. Many aspects of the layout, use, character and development of Valencina remain unclear, just as there are major unresolved questions about the kind of society represented there and in southern Iberia, from the late fourth to the late third millennium cal BC. This paper discusses 178 radiocarbon dates, from 17 excavated sectors within the c. 450 ha site, making it the best dated in later Iberian prehistory as a whole. Dates are modelled in a Bayesian statistical framework. The resulting formal date estimates provide the basis for both a new epistemological approach to the site and a much more detailed narrative of its development than previously available. Beginning in the 32nd century cal BC, a long-lasting tradition of simple, mainly collective and often successive burial was established at the site. Mud-vaulted tholoi appear to belong to the 29th or 28th centuries cal BC; large stone-vaulted tholoi such as La Pastora appear to date later in the sequence. There is plenty of evidence for a wide range of other activity, but no clear sign of permanent, large-scale residence or public buildings or spaces. Results in general support a model of increasingly competitive but ultimately unstable social relations, through various phases of emergence, social competition, display and hierarchisation, and eventual decline, over a period of c. 900 years.
Valencina de la Concepción这个伟大的遗址位于西班牙西南部瓜达尔基维尔河谷下游的塞维利亚附近，它是在关于整个伊比利亚南部铜器时代社会性质的辩论背景下展出的。瓦伦西纳的布局、用途、特征和发展的许多方面仍然不清楚，就像在公元前4世纪末到公元前3世纪末之间，那里和伊比利亚南部所代表的社会类型仍然存在未解决的主要问题一样。这篇论文讨论了178个放射性碳测年，这些测年来自于这个约450公顷的遗址的17个出土部分，使其成为伊比利亚史前晚期最准确的测年。日期在贝叶斯统计框架中建模。由此产生的正式日期估计为该遗址的新认识论方法和比以前更详细的发展叙述提供了基础。从公元前32世纪开始，一种简单的、主要是集体的、通常是连续的埋葬传统在这里建立起来。泥拱顶的tholoi似乎属于公元前29或28世纪;像拉帕斯托拉这样的大型石拱丘出现在序列的后期。有大量证据表明，他们还从事过各种各样的其他活动，但没有明确的迹象表明他们有永久性的、大规模的住所或公共建筑或空间。研究结果总体上支持了一种模式，即在大约900年的时间里，社会关系经历了出现、社会竞争、展示和等级制度以及最终衰落的各个阶段，竞争日益激烈，但最终不稳定。
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Pub Date : 2017-12-14DOI: 10.1007/s10963-017-9112-9
Michael Brass
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Pub Date : 2017-10-07DOI: 10.1007/s10963-017-9110-y
Richard Walter, Hallie Buckley, Chris Jacomb, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith
This paper reintroduces the concept of mass migration into debates concerning the timing and nature of New Zealand’s settlement by Polynesians. Upward revisions of New Zealand’s chronology show that the appearance of humans on the landscape occurred extremely rapidly, and that within decades settlements had been established across the full range of climatic zones. We show that the rapid appearance of a strong archaeological signature in the early 14th century AD is the result of a mass migration event, not the consequence of gradual demographic growth out of a currently unidentified earlier phase of settlement. Mass migration is not only consistent with the archaeological record but is supported by recent findings in molecular biology and genetics. It also opens the door to a new phase of engagement between archaeological method and indigenous Maori and Polynesian oral history and tradition.
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