Pub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2249332
This article refers to:RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.
本文摘自:《安第斯山脉中南部的古气候重现:公元2000年的高海拔牧民住所》。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-15DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2243692
Evita Kalogiropoulou, N. Saridaki, D. Roussos, N. Kyparissi‐Apostolika
ABSTRACT This paper examines, in parallel, two key archaeological material groups: the kilns and the ceramics from the exceptional tell site of Imvrou Pigadi, the first known and systematically excavated Middle Neolithic pottery workshop in Thessaly. The study forms an all-encompassing, material-based, and scientifically integrated framework based on macroscopic and microscopic analyses, including typological classification and geoarchaeology with an emphasis on micromorphology, as well as an examination of spatial organization. Direct and indirect evidence for standardization and specialization in technology and production practices points to advanced pyrotechnological knowledge and expertise in pottery manufacture at the site. Moreover, the paper examines the social interplay developed around pottery production by discussing cooperation and the organization of social space within the community. Overall, this analysis touches upon the discussion of the wider community of pottery manufacturing centers in Neolithic Thessaly and places the site within its cultural context, offering new insights into craftsmanship and social reciprocity.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2240993
K. Chondros, Rozalia Christidou, S. Triantaphyllou, S. Andreou
ABSTRACT We present two significant patterns of osseous artifact production during the Final Late Bronze Age at the settlement mound of Thessaloniki Toumba in the northeastern Thermaic Gulf region in northern Greece and compare with data published from the same and neighboring regions. One pattern is the use of long bone fractures for shaping awls. The other is the production of pins from deer antlers. Awl manufacturing is consistent with the practice of the use of broken bones for a variety of tools, which had been common since the Early Bronze Age. The antler pins and some rare, elaborate objects, such as barbed-and-tanged points and horse bits, indicate innovation and interactions across different spatial scales toward the end of the Bronze Age. Research into the manufacturing processes may provide a more detailed understanding of the cultural and technological significance of these artifacts.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2232703
Carla E. Klehm, M. Helper, E. Hildebrand, E. Ndiema, K. Grillo
ABSTRACT This article describes the mineralogy and sources for a spectacular stone bead industry associated with the first pastoralists in eastern Africa ca. 5000–4000 cal b.p. Around Lake Turkana, northwest Kenya, early pastoralists constructed at least seven mortuary monuments with platforms, pillars, cairns, and stone circles. Three sites—Lothagam North, Manemanya, and Jarigole—have yielded assemblages of stone and ostrich eggshell beads that adorned interred individuals. Mineralogical identification of the stone beads reveals patterns of material selection, including notable differences among the pillar sites. Geological sourcing indicates use of many local raw materials and two (amazonite and fluorite) whose known sources lie > 200 km away. The data suggest that bead-making represented a significant investment by early pastoralists in personal ornamentation. New sociopolitical factors emerged, such as access to grazing grounds and water, and definitions of self and society manifested in novel mortuary traditions as people coped with a drying, cooling climate.
这篇文章描述了一个壮观的石珠产业的矿物学和来源,该产业与非洲东部最早的牧民有关,大约公元前5000-4000 cal .在肯尼亚西北部的图尔卡纳湖周围,早期的牧民建造了至少7座带有平台、柱子、石冢和石圈的墓地。洛塔加姆北、曼内曼亚和贾里戈尔三个遗址出土了装饰被埋葬的人的石头和鸵鸟蛋壳珠的组合。石珠的矿物学鉴定揭示了材料选择的模式,包括柱点之间的显着差异。地质来源表明使用了许多当地原料和两种(亚马逊石和萤石),其已知来源在100至200公里以外。数据表明,制作头饰代表了早期牧民在个人装饰方面的重大投资。新的社会政治因素出现了,比如获得牧场和水源的途径,以及在人们应对干燥、凉爽的气候时,在新的殡葬传统中表现出的自我和社会的定义。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2219102
G. Leader, Rachel Bynoe, Theodore Marks, A. Stone, Kaarina Efraim, D. Stratford, E. Marais
ABSTRACT Namib IV (S23° 44.829’, E14° 19.720’) is frequently cited, as it is one of few Earlier Stone Age sites in the Sand Sea of the Namib Desert. The site was first investigated in 1978 by Myra Shackley, who described 582 artifacts on the surface of a pan as representing an Acheulean butchery site. Descriptions of the artifacts, their number, and area were inconsistently reported. Recently rediscovered, the site of Namib IV is a rare example of a tool-rich and fossil fauna-bearing pan system in the Namib Sand Sea. This project aims to investigate when, how, and under what environmental conditions hominins utilized these landscapes. This article presents the first archaeological research conducted at the site in over 40 years. Typological and technological data was collected from surface-exposed artifacts and large cutting tools (LCTs) and compared to Shackley’s assemblage. Data demonstrate that her collection is representative of the Namib IV site and raise many new questions about the original research and the site.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2221520
Jonathan M. Schaefer, S. Eckert, D. Huntley, J. Ferguson
ABSTRACT The Gallinas Mountains of west-central New Mexico were home to agriculturalists between ca. a.d. 850 and 1450. Ongoing research of the Lion Mountain Archaeology Project (LMAP) has allowed for in-field analysis of surface obsidian artifacts via portable handheld energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF). Influenced by principles of preservation archaeology and the archaeological repository curation crisis, the LMAP has sought to design and conduct field research to gather the most data with the least amount of impact to sites. Non-destructive in-field analysis via portable handheld ED-XRF subscribes to these goals while also providing answers to significant questions about human behavior. Results show that variable patterns of obsidian source utilization and procurement strategies existed both through time and between contemporaneous populations. These results are indicative of a shifting system of exchange and social interaction between residents of the region and surrounding areas during the Ancestral Pueblo occupation of the area.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2219933
Hyunsoo Lee, Younghun Kim, Gyoung-Ah Lee
ABSTRACT This paper examines the traditional ecological knowledge that existed for generations along the southern coast in Korea with an example from the site of Gungokri. Traditional subsistence along the Korean coast and islands is known as half-farming and half-fishing, Ban-nong ban-eoh in Korean, and we argue that this strategy applies to over 500 years of history at the site. Our data from 150 b.c.–a.d. 400 focuses on archaeobotanical remains recovered from floated sediments, 25 radiocarbon dates, and starch granules extracted from vessels. Our research indicates that Gungokri residents practiced a rotation of crops in both wetlands and uplands to prevent the loss of soil nutrition and erosion from seawater. Furthermore, they diversified food resources by fishing, shellfishing, hunting, and harvesting wild plants from forest edges and wetlands. This type of long-term resilience and ecological flexibility in coastal adaptation was achieved through niche construction of complex seasonal resource management and inheritance of traditional ecological knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2217394
D. Rachal
ABSTRACT Source bordering sand sheets form downwind of sandy stream beds on the Ceja Mesa escarpment in north-central New Mexico. Archaic archaeological sites are often buried in this type of deposit. A stratigraphic sequence from one site was examined using soil morphology, radiocarbon and optical dating, soil characterization, and stable isotope analyses of soil organic matter and carbonate. This geoarchaeological reconstruction documented a combination of rapid alluvial, eolian, and local hillslope sedimentation events that occurred between 4100 and 3200 years ago. These events coincided with changes in δ13C values that, in turn, reflect changes in local vegetation. Human occupation of the sand sheet occurred as early as 3700 years ago, and a sheetwash flooding event that altered the stratigraphic context of the site occurred sometime between 3700 and 3200 years ago. The effects of these rapid depositional and erosional processes on artifact stratigraphy and archaeological interpretations could be significant.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2209398
L. Meskell
ABSTRACT Carved out of the jungle by American big business, Penn Museum’s project at Tikal to restore massive pyramids and showcase Maya civilization was a direct outgrowth of government, military, and corporate connections. The story of Pennsylvania in the Petén is about American involvement in developing tourism, infrastructure, research stations, training, and the making of Guatemalan heritage citizens. It is also about increasing US government vigilance south of the border after the 1954 CIA-backed coup, whether in forging anti-communist alliances or commercial concessions. Philanthropists supporting Tikal were themselves representatives from US banking, oil, agriculture, aviation, and tourism sectors, making it impossible to disentangle archaeology from industrial and political adventurism. Extractive economies involving archaeology, oil, chicle, and bananas all ferried equipment and products back and forth to the Petén via American boats and planes, along dirt roads and airstrips built by American firms. Sold as the first great city of the Americas and costing almost a million dollars, the resurrection of Tikal underlines the ineluctable dependencies between security, espionage, international politics, corporations, conservation, and donor economies.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2200583
I. Malik, Marcin Bohr, M. Wistuba, T. Raab, A. Bonhage, Wouter B. Verschoof‐van der Vaart, A. Raab, B. Woskowicz-Ślęzak
ABSTRACT We studied the abandoned mining field in southern Poland using high-resolution lidar images to distinguish the number of mining shaft remains and their morphological diversity. We identified 13,864 remains of mining shafts of various sizes (2–30 m in diameter) and diverse levels of denudation. This allowed us to select 13 mining shafts for detailed study. The radiocarbon dating of charcoal and peat from the shafts indicate three phases of exploitation in the study area: the Roman and early migration period (2nd century b.c.–6th century a.d.), the Middle Ages (6th–14th century a.d.), and the modern period (15th–17th century a.d.). The data on metal ore exploitation in the European Barbaricum is scarce and, in the study area itself, historical written sources indicate the onset of mining only in the 12th century a.d. Therefore, ore exploitation in the study area during the Roman period and early migration period, as well as in the early Middle Ages, is an unexpected result.
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