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Moments of Movement and Stillness for Senebtisi Since 1907
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09703-x
Alyson Caine

During my study of Senebtisi, an elite Egyptian woman from the Middle Kingdom period, I noted several missing skeletal elements which contradicted the archival and original representativeness of the individual. My initial interest into where, when, and how this loss occurred resulted in the following paper that sought to understand the ‘epi’-taphonomic factors influencing Senebtisi’s skeletal remains. Using object itinerary, the resultant narrative provides a cultural view to how these processes impact non-cultural factors, including skeletal preservation and the information available for study, all of which influence the bioarchaeological interpretative trajectory. Moments of movement and stillness for Senebtisi, including her representations (textual, photographs, drawings, and/or exhibits), afforded an understanding of alterations to her as an object and shifting value attributions since her exhumation in 1907. Ultimately, my focus on ‘epi’-taphonomic factors influencing Senebtisi exposes the subjectivity of her history as influenced by those that have studied her. Of note is the additive properties of processes that current (bio)archaeologists deem destructive, including reconstruction and unwrapping of mummified individuals. Importantly, my own study and research of Senebtisi represents additional interactions that influence the representations, representativeness of this individual, and preservation of her skeletal remains that ultimately result in further transformation to what is known and knowable about her.

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“Slow” Network Research? A Mixed-Methods Approach Towards Funeral Status Representation in the Late Urnfield Period
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09698-5
Aline Deicke

From its earliest stages on, the rise of computational approaches in the humanities—whether in archaeology, history, or digital humanities more generally—has been accompanied by discussions and critical reflections on the way in which data-driven research methods are informed by the representation of research objects as data structures. Various dimensions, challenges, and characteristics can be roughly divided into three intersecting aspects: the subjectivity of data, their complexity, and their size. Archaeological network analysis as a formal, quantitative method is situated firmly within the tension between these fields, and many authors focus on the application of network research to archaeological data while respecting their complex nature. This paper adds to this growing body of work by focusing on the specificities of a medium-sized data set that offers multiple perspectives on a complex question of social archaeology: the study of intersecting social identities and their materialisation in funeral assemblages, particularly of a collective identity of high status-individuals or “elites”, during the Late Urnfield Period. It offers a mixed-methods approach that centres quantitative results and qualitative contextualization across different scales, and minimises loss of information and context, while transparently disclosing its practices of data selection, pre-processing, and analysis. In doing so, it aims to make the reflective positionings of “slow data” and “slow technology” productive for a methodology of “slow networks”.

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Shining Light on Dark Matter: Advancing Functional Analysis of Obsidian Tools with Confocal Scanning Microscopy 照亮暗物质:利用共焦扫描显微镜推进黑曜石工具的功能分析
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09700-0
Fiona Pichon, Juan José Ibáñez Estevez, Laurence Astruc, Bernard Gassin, Amelia Rodríguez Rodríguez, Carlo Lugliè

Over the past decade, confocal microscopy has increasingly been employed to examine changes in stone tool surfaces and has proven to be an accurate technique for quantifying use-wear texture. Promising results have emerged from characterizing Polish formation on experimental and archaeological flint tools. Recent studies also highlighted the potential of confocal microscopy for analyzing tools made from reflective materials, such as quartzite. In this paper, we investigate the capability of confocal microscopy to discriminate use-wear on obsidian quantitatively. We examine whether confocal microscopy and 3D texture analysis can correctly classify several worked materials that are challenging to differentiate using the optical standard method of use-wear analysis. For cutting activities, we include butchery, de-skinning a fresh hide from grease and meaty tissues, cutting tanned leather, harvesting domestic ripe cereals, harvesting semi-green wild cereals, and sawing wet limestone. As for scraping activities, we explore discriminating differences among tools used for working dry hide, dry antler, soaked antler, fresh bone, softwood, fresh reeds, and wet limestone. Our results demonstrate that these worked materials can be confidently identified in experimental tools. While other relevant factors affecting use-wear texture, such as the intensity of use or post-depositional alterations, need to be controlled before employing the method on archaeological materials, our research suggests that the quantitative approach can enhance the standard method of use-wear analysis, providing unprecedented precision for identifying worked materials in obsidian tools.

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Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09701-z
Paolo Sferrazza

The paper focuses on introducing 2D texture analysis as a quantitative method for functional analysis in archaeology. The paper aims to demonstrate the validity of this method for quantifying use-wear analysis and to evaluate different processing, extraction, and classification techniques. The method presented relies on five techniques of quantitative feature extraction from photographic images and nine classification techniques through machine learning algorithms. After creating a training dataset with experimental traces, machine learning models were validated through experimental and archaeological image classification. The best result achieved a classification accuracy of 80%, suggesting convolutional neural network and grey level co-occurence matrix as the best quantification options and neural networks as the best classification algorithm. The paper proposes to use the method as a fundamental tool in functional analysis to remove subjectivity criteria from traditional analysis and to address issues related to the credibility of the discipline, calibration, standardisation, and reproducibility of methods and results.

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Beyond the Surface: Exploring Ancient Plant Food Processing through Confocal Microscopy and 3D Texture Analysis on Ground Stone Tools
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09697-6
Andrea Zupancich, Emanuela Cristiani, Melania Di Fazio, Laura Medeghini, Avi Gopher, Juan José Ibáñez

Ground stone tools are frequently found in archaeological contexts from early to late prehistoric times. These tools are key evidence for reconstructing past societies’ lifeways, technology and know-how, given their role in different tasks, including subsistence and craft activities. In recent years, the field of use-wear studies on ground stone tools showed an exponential growth in applying quantitative methods at all scales of observations, from macro to micro. These included using 3D models to measure and identify worked areas, spatial analyses for exploring trace and residue distribution, and confocal profilometers to analyse micro-polish texture. In this paper, we present results stemming from the application of confocal light microscopy and 3D surface texture analysis to identify and distinguish micro-polishes deriving from the processing of plant foods. We tested the potential of this method by analysing micro-polishes on modern limestone replicas used for grinding, pounding and dehusking wild and domestic cereal grains and legumes. Following a multi-level analysis, we demonstrate the efficacy of confocal microscopy and 3D surface texture analysis in correctly discriminating between different micro-polishes. We show how this method, integrated with the qualitative assessment of use-wear, may enhance functional interpretations of ground stone tools; we also discuss the current limits and future perspectives for their systematic application in the study of archaeological assemblages.

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Methodological Challenges to Tracking Zea mays (Maize) Historical Pathways Through Macrobotanical, Microbotanical, and Stable Isotope Evidence: Maize’s Adoption and Consumption by Precontact Populations in the North American Midcontinent
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09699-4
Thomas E. Emerson, Kristin M. Hedman, Mary L. Simon

The process of plant domestication and subsequent adoption of agriculture have long been viewed by archaeologists as key factors in the emergence of social and political complexity. Ongoing research by botanists, archaeobotanists, and archaeologists, with ever-improving methodologies and technologies, reveal that the adoption of agriculture varies significantly in terms of chronologies, dietary intensity, and social impacts. It has become clear that broad-sweeping theories of agricultural adoption obscure meaningful micro-historical variations. Nowhere is this more true than in the Western Hemisphere, where the dates of the adoption of maize may differ in even geographically adjacent regions — thus the importance of focused regional studies of the history of maize consumption. In this review, we examine in detail the various methodological approaches employed in micro- and macro-botanical and isotopic studies and, importantly, appraise ongoing challenges to interpreting the findings of such research. We undertake this evaluation in the context of the northern midcontinent USA where these methodologies have produced regional maize histories that differ by as much as a thousand years in terms of both the presence of maize and the ultimate adoption of maize agriculture. We conclude that incorporating multiple refined methodological approaches is a key to understanding this variability.

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“Open Sourcing” Workflow and Machine Learning Approaches for Attributing Obsidian Artifacts to Their Volcanic Origins: A Feasibility Study from the South Caucasus
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09695-8
Pavol Hnila, Ellery Frahm, Alessandra Gilibert, Arsen Bobokhyan

Traditionally, reliable obsidian sourcing requires expensive calibration standards and extensive geological reference collections as well as experience with statistical processing. In the South Caucasus — one of the most obsidian-rich regions on the planet — this combination of requirements has often restricted sourcing studies because few projects have geological reference collections that cover all known obsidian sources. To test an alternative approach, we conducted “open sourcing” using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analyses of geological specimens with three key changes to the conventional method: (1) commercially available calibration standards were replaced with a loanable Peabody-Yale Reference Obsidians (PYRO) set, (2) a comprehensive geological reference collection was replaced with a published dataset of consensus values (Frahm, 2023a, 2023b), and (3) processing in statistical packages was replaced with two semiautomated machine-learning workflows available online. For comparison, we used classification by-eye with JMP 17.2 statistical software. Furthermore, we propose a new method to evaluate calibrations, which streamlines comparisons and which we refer to as a symmetric difference ratio (SDR). The results of this feasibility study demonstrate that this “open sourcing” workflow is reliable, yet currently only in combination with classification by-eye. When the consensus values were combined with the machine-learning solutions, the classification results were unsatisfactory. The most encouraging aspect of our alternative “open sourcing” workflow is that it enables correct source identification without physically measuring reference collections, therefore surmounting an obstacle that, until now, has severely limited archaeological research. We anticipate that rapid developments in machine-learning will also soon improve the workflow.

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Comparing Summed Probability Distributions of Shoreline and Radiocarbon Dates from the Mesolithic Skagerrak Coast of Norway
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09696-7
Isak Roalkvam, Steinar Solheim

By developing a new methodology for handling and assessing a large number of shoreline dated sites, this paper compares the summed probability distribution of radiocarbon dates and shoreline dates along the Skagerrak coast of south-eastern Norway. Both measures have previously been compared to elucidate demographic developments in Fennoscandia, but these have not been based on probabilistic methods for shoreline dating. The findings indicate a largely diverging development of the two data sets through the Mesolithic. The number of shoreline dated sites undergoes some process of overall decrease through the period, while the radiocarbon data is characterised by a lacking signal in the earliest parts of the period and then undergoes a logistic growth that quickly plateaus and remains stable for the remainder of the period. The precise nature of this discrepancy will necessitate further substantiation and the method of shoreline dating itself still requires further testing and assessment. Having noted this, we still tentatively suggest that while the number of shoreline dated sites is not devoid of influence from a demographic signal, this measure could be more heavily influenced by mobility patterns. Conversely, we also suggest that the lacking radiocarbon data from the earliest part of the Mesolithic is in part the result of mobility patterns, but that the radiocarbon data could be reflecting population dynamics more directly.

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“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük “相互存在的网络”:社会-物质考古网络和生物联系,网址:Çatalhöyük
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-024-09692-3
Camilla Mazzucato, Michele Coscia, Ayça Küçükakdağ Doğu, Scott Haddow, Muhammed Sıddık Kılıç, Eren Yüncü, Mehmet Somel

Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. However, to properly integrate these data within archaeological narratives, new methodological and theoretical tools are required. Effort must be put into finding new methods for weaving together different datasets where material culture and archaeogenomic data are both constitutive elements. This is true on a small scale, when we study relationships at the individual level, and at a larger scale when we deal with social and population dynamics. Specifically, in the study of kinship systems, it is essential to contextualize and make sense of biological relatedness through social relations, which, in archaeology, is achieved by using material culture as a proxy. In this paper, we propose a Network Science framework to integrate archaeogenomic data and material culture at an intra-site scale to study biological relatedness and social organization at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. Methodologically, we propose the use of network variance to investigate the association between biological relatedness and material culture within networks of houses. This approach allows us to observe how material culture similarity between buildings is associated with biological relationships between individuals and how biogenetic ties concentrate at specific localities on site.

考古基因组学的最新进展使我们能够获得以前无法获得的生物信息,并有可能进一步了解过去在一定范围内的社会动态。然而,要将这些数据正确地整合到考古叙事中,需要新的方法和理论工具。必须努力寻找新的方法,将物质文化和考古基因组数据都是构成要素的不同数据集编织在一起。在小范围内,当我们研究个人层面的关系时,这是正确的;在更大范围内,当我们处理社会和人口动态时,这是正确的。具体来说,在亲属制度研究中,必须通过社会关系来语境化和理解生物亲缘关系,而在考古学中,这是通过使用物质文化作为代理来实现的。在本文中,我们提出了一个网络科学框架,在遗址内尺度上整合考古基因组数据和物质文化,以研究Çatalhöyük新石器时代遗址的生物相关性和社会组织。在方法上,我们建议使用网络方差来调查房屋网络中生物相关性和物质文化之间的关联。这种方法使我们能够观察到建筑之间的物质文化相似性如何与个体之间的生物关系相关联,以及生物遗传联系如何集中在场地的特定位置。
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The Trade Theory of Money: External Exchange and the Origins of Money 货币的贸易理论:外部交换和货币的起源
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09694-9
Mikael Fauvelle

For over a century, scholars have debated the merits of two competing theories for the origins of money. The commodity theory of money has traditionally held that money developed as a medium of exchange in order to increase the economic efficiency of barter economies. Alternatively, chartalist explanations have given causal primacy to the role of state taxation in standardizing money as a unit of account. Recently, skepticism over the existence of barter economies in either contemporary societies or ancient history has led to the increased popularity of the state-centric chartalist approach. Evidence from many pre-state societies around the world, however, shows that commodity money was often used in long-distance trade networks where systems of debt and reciprocity would have been impractical. This paper draws on evidence from two such exchange systems, the “interior world” of pre-Columbian western North America and the Bronze Age of western Europe, to argue that money can come about to facilitate exchange between strangers and across borders. As such, I suggest that the commodity theory of money is more accurately explained by the importance of exchange in external rather than internal economic systems. I propose that a trade theory of money can explain the origins of money in pre-state societies without relying on the “myth of barter”.

一个多世纪以来,学者们一直在争论关于货币起源的两种相互竞争的理论的优点。货币的商品理论传统上认为,为了提高易货经济的经济效率,货币是作为交换媒介而发展起来的。另一种解释则认为,国家税收在将货币作为记账单位标准化过程中所起的作用,在因果关系上居于首位。最近,对易货经济在当代社会或古代历史中存在的怀疑导致了以国家为中心的宪章主义方法的日益普及。然而,来自世界各地许多前国家社会的证据表明,商品货币经常被用于长途贸易网络,在这些网络中,债务和互惠制度是不切实际的。这篇论文从两个这样的交换系统——前哥伦布时代的北美西部的“内部世界”和西欧的青铜时代——中提取证据,来论证金钱可以促进陌生人之间和跨国界的交换。因此,我认为货币的商品理论更准确地解释为交换在外部而不是内部经济系统中的重要性。我提出,货币贸易理论可以解释前国家社会中货币的起源,而不依赖于“物物交换的神话”。
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