Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2022.2089726
Aya Komatsu, E. Cooper, I. Alsos, A. Brown
ABSTRACT One of the most entrenched binary oppositions in archaeology and anthropology has been the agriculturalist vs hunter-gatherer-fisher dichotomy fuelling a debate that this paper tackles from the bottom-up by seeking to reconstruct full past diets. The Japanese prehistoric Jōmon cultures survived without fully-developed agriculture for more than 10,000 years. Here we compile a comprehensive, holistic database of archaeobotanical and archaeozoological records from the two ends of the archipelago, the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and the southernmost island-chain of Ryukyu. The results suggest Jōmon diets varied far more geographically than they did over time, and likely cultivated taxa were important in both regions. This provides the basis for examining how fisher-hunter-gatherer diets can fulfil nutritional requirements from varied environments and were resilient in the face of environmental change.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2169340
Alastair J. M. Key
ABSTRACT The Acheulean has long been considered a single, unified tradition. Decades of morphometric and technological evidence supports such an understanding by demonstrating that a single fundamental Bauplan was followed for more than 1.6 million years. What remains unknown is whether sites assigned to the Acheulean represent multiple socially-independent iterations of the same technological solution to shared ecological (functional) and ergonomic demands. Here, using the ‘surprise test’, the temporal cohesion of the Acheulean record is statistically assessed for the first time. Chronological data from 81 early and late Acheulean sites are investigated to see if breaks in this record warrant the designation of separate, culturally distinct groupings of sites. No significant results were returned, suggesting the Acheulean to be temporally cohesive and there to be no evidence of cultural convergence from a temporal perspective. When combined with previous morphometric, technological and spatial evidence, the best-fit scenario for the Acheulean continues to be that it represents a single, but variable, tradition.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2022.2118161
Meryl Shriver-Rice, M. J. Schneider, Christine J. Pardo
ABSTRACT The popular prioritization of climate change issues over biodiversity loss in environmental archaeology and palaeoecology has been argued to be in part due to agenda-setting created by the ripple effects of widespread media coverage of climatic change. In this paper, we argue that direct scientific evidence for past human landscapes can act as a powerful tool in modern conservation efforts to combat species loss when taking regional identities, historical ecology, and modern political ecologies into account. How to rank and prioritize conservation efforts in the Anthropocene and best make use of archaeological data are lingering questions within Anthropocene anthropology and archaeological science. By engaging with notions of deep-time enchantment and identity, archaeology can aid conservation biology with revealing the religio-philosophical dimensions that exist between humans and other species, in particular charismatic megafauna that lend themselves to high engagement at a local or regional level.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2022.2206196
N. Sykes
Most of the papers in this volume are united by their use of large datasets and their application to bioarchaeological, palaeoenvironmental, heritage and preservation practices. Through synthesis, integration and reanalysis the authors provide entirely new perspectives that either confirm or refute received wisdom. For example, Key (2022) brings together lithic data from 81 early and late Acheulean sites across Afro-Eurasia. Using statistical analyses to model spatiotemporal patterns, he is able to support the accepted belief that the Acheulean tradition was cohesive across its 1.6-million-year range. By contrast, Komatsu et al.’s (2002) synthesis of plant and animals remains from prehistoric Japan disproves the traditional discourse concerning the transition from hunter-gatherer-fishers to agriculturalists. Rather than these economies being found in binary opposition, Komatsu et al.’s (2002) analysis demonstrates that, over 10,000 years, Jōmon diets and economies varied more by geography and environment than chronology. Challenges to existing theories are also provided by Ayala et al.’s (2023) study of early farming at Çatalhöyük, Turkey. They combine high-resolution palaeoenvironmental and palaeohydrological reconstructions with extensive archaeobotanical data to provide an alternative to the traditional ‘floodplain cultivation model’, originally proposed by Sherratt (1980). Here, Ayala et al. argue that, far from being low-investment and opportunistic, the agriculturalists of Çatalhöyük adopted strategic planting of diverse crops creating an agroecology that was resilient to climate change. Garrido et al.’s (2023) fascinating reanalysis of severed heads from Argentina and Chile demonstrates how bioarchaeological and biomolecular data can be brought together to inform on sociocultural dynamics and political performance. Their programme of C14 and isotope analysis on skulls recovered from sites in Fiambalá (Argentina) and Copiapó (Chile) provided sufficient new evidence to propose that colonising Inca groups co-opted local ritual practices of skull display as a way of legitimising their power in areas of expansion. Whilst many of the studies in this volume highlight the value of large datasets for better understanding the past, Shriver-Rice et al. (2022) argue that data from environmental archaeology and palaeoecology should be used to underpin debates concerning modern and future species conservation. They point to the fact that the archaeological record contains important evidence about changing patterns of biodiversity and the status (e.g. native or introduced) of plants and animals that is not always known by policy makers. To refine understanding of ancient biodiversity, it is often necessary to apply new biomolecular techniques to archived assemblages. As Johnston et al. (2023) highlight, thanks to the ‘organics revolution’ archives have never been a more important source of biocultural evidence. Yet this is coinciding with a crisis in mus
{"title":"Debates and emerging issues in 2022","authors":"N. Sykes","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2022.2206196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2022.2206196","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the papers in this volume are united by their use of large datasets and their application to bioarchaeological, palaeoenvironmental, heritage and preservation practices. Through synthesis, integration and reanalysis the authors provide entirely new perspectives that either confirm or refute received wisdom. For example, Key (2022) brings together lithic data from 81 early and late Acheulean sites across Afro-Eurasia. Using statistical analyses to model spatiotemporal patterns, he is able to support the accepted belief that the Acheulean tradition was cohesive across its 1.6-million-year range. By contrast, Komatsu et al.’s (2002) synthesis of plant and animals remains from prehistoric Japan disproves the traditional discourse concerning the transition from hunter-gatherer-fishers to agriculturalists. Rather than these economies being found in binary opposition, Komatsu et al.’s (2002) analysis demonstrates that, over 10,000 years, Jōmon diets and economies varied more by geography and environment than chronology. Challenges to existing theories are also provided by Ayala et al.’s (2023) study of early farming at Çatalhöyük, Turkey. They combine high-resolution palaeoenvironmental and palaeohydrological reconstructions with extensive archaeobotanical data to provide an alternative to the traditional ‘floodplain cultivation model’, originally proposed by Sherratt (1980). Here, Ayala et al. argue that, far from being low-investment and opportunistic, the agriculturalists of Çatalhöyük adopted strategic planting of diverse crops creating an agroecology that was resilient to climate change. Garrido et al.’s (2023) fascinating reanalysis of severed heads from Argentina and Chile demonstrates how bioarchaeological and biomolecular data can be brought together to inform on sociocultural dynamics and political performance. Their programme of C14 and isotope analysis on skulls recovered from sites in Fiambalá (Argentina) and Copiapó (Chile) provided sufficient new evidence to propose that colonising Inca groups co-opted local ritual practices of skull display as a way of legitimising their power in areas of expansion. Whilst many of the studies in this volume highlight the value of large datasets for better understanding the past, Shriver-Rice et al. (2022) argue that data from environmental archaeology and palaeoecology should be used to underpin debates concerning modern and future species conservation. They point to the fact that the archaeological record contains important evidence about changing patterns of biodiversity and the status (e.g. native or introduced) of plants and animals that is not always known by policy makers. To refine understanding of ancient biodiversity, it is often necessary to apply new biomolecular techniques to archived assemblages. As Johnston et al. (2023) highlight, thanks to the ‘organics revolution’ archives have never been a more important source of biocultural evidence. Yet this is coinciding with a crisis in mus","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"54 1","pages":"363 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42772270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2022.2204626
A. Mijares, Y. Kaifu
remote island locations. Once colonised, adapting to new island environments was the next task. Different islands had their own set of available resources fit for human exploitation
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2172074
R. Ono, H. O. Sofian, Riczar Fuentes, N. Aziz, Marlon Ririmasse, I. M. Geria, C. Katagiri, A. Pawlik
ABSTRACT Maritime migration and island adaptation by anatomically modern humans (AMH) are among the most significant current issues in Southeast Asian archaeology and directly related to their behavioural and technological advancement. In the center of this research hotspot are the Wallacean islands, situated between the Pleistocene landmasses of Sunda and Sahul. Two major migration routes have been suggested for the initial maritime migration from Sunda via Wallacea into Sahul, a northern route into the region of New Guinea and a southern route leading into northern Australia. Here, we report the outcomes of new archaeological research in Central Sulawesi, the most likely entry location for the northern route. Based on our latest findings and new C14 dates from Goa Topogaro 2, we discuss the evidence and timeline for the migration of early modern humans into the Wallacean islands and their adaptation to insular environments during the Late Pleistocene.
{"title":"Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea","authors":"R. Ono, H. O. Sofian, Riczar Fuentes, N. Aziz, Marlon Ririmasse, I. M. Geria, C. Katagiri, A. Pawlik","doi":"10.1080/00438243.2023.2172074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2023.2172074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Maritime migration and island adaptation by anatomically modern humans (AMH) are among the most significant current issues in Southeast Asian archaeology and directly related to their behavioural and technological advancement. In the center of this research hotspot are the Wallacean islands, situated between the Pleistocene landmasses of Sunda and Sahul. Two major migration routes have been suggested for the initial maritime migration from Sunda via Wallacea into Sahul, a northern route into the region of New Guinea and a southern route leading into northern Australia. Here, we report the outcomes of new archaeological research in Central Sulawesi, the most likely entry location for the northern route. Based on our latest findings and new C14 dates from Goa Topogaro 2, we discuss the evidence and timeline for the migration of early modern humans into the Wallacean islands and their adaptation to insular environments during the Late Pleistocene.","PeriodicalId":47942,"journal":{"name":"WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"125 ","pages":"229 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41271697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2192518
C. Boulanger, S. Hawkins, S. S. Samper Carro, R. Ono, S. O’Connor
ABSTRACT Human adaptations to marine resources were critical in the successful colonization of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and the Pacific since the Late Pleistocene. Fishing the dense biomass of ichthyofauna present in this maritime region required the cognitive capability to conceptualize fish ecology and develop methods and technologies to exploit these challenging underwater environments. This likely gave our species an edge over other hominin species in depauperate island landscapes. This paper reviews the limited number of archaeological sites in ISEA where fish bone assemblages and fishing gears have been recovered, incorporating new archaeological data from the site of Asitau Kuru (Jerimalai), Timor-Leste. Our findings indicate continuity in fishing behavior over several millennia with a near-shore exploitation of local marine habitats including trolling, line fishing and spearing. These data indicate the ecological plasticity of our species and the enduring fishing traditions passed on to generations through learned behavior.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2022.2121317
Y. Kaifu
ABSTRACT The rise of water transport technology enabled early modern humans to expand their habitable territory to insular environments. However, apart from intensive discussion for Wallacea, developmental process and regional variation of Palaeolithic seafaring remain unclear. To contribute this issue, the author presents a synthetic model for Palaeolithic seafaring in another region of the western Pacific, the Ryukyu Islands (Ryukyus). Here, some islands were more than 100 km away and invisible beyond the horizon, and one of the world’s strongest ocean currents intervened the seaways. Despite these challenging situations, Palaeolithic sites appeared throughout much of the 1,200 km chain of the islands ~35,000–30,000 years ago. By integrating currently available information from archaeology, skeletal morphology, genetics, palaeogeography, oceanography and our own experimental voyage project, the author discusses probable migration routes, possible watercrafts, preparation and strategy needed for successful maritime migrations, and other issues relevant to deeper understanding of the origins and development of human maritime activities.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2022.2121315
H. Hung, H. Matsumura, L. C. Nguyễn, T. Hanihara, Shih-Chiang Huang, M. Carson
ABSTRACT Taiwan is known as the homeland of the Austronesian-speaking groups, yet other populations already had lived here since the Pleistocene. Conventional notions have postulated that the Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers were replaced or absorbed into the Neolithic Austronesian farming communities. Yet, some evidence has indicated that sparse numbers of non-Austronesian individuals continued to live in the remote mountains as late as the 1800s. The cranial morphometric study of human skeletal remains unearthed from the Xiaoma Caves in eastern Taiwan, for the first time, validates the prior existence of small stature hunter-gatherers 6000 years ago in the preceramic phase. This female individual shared remarkable cranial affinities and small stature characteristics with the Indigenous Southeast Asians, particularly the Negritos in northern Luzon. This study solves the several-hundred-years-old mysteries of ‘little black people’ legends in Formosan Austronesian tribes and brings insights into the broader prehistory of Southeast Asia.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2172072
S. O’Connor, S. Kealy, C. Reepmeyer, S. S. Samper Carro, C. Shipton
ABSTRACT The crossing of the Wallacean islands and settlement of Sahul by modern humans over 50,000 years ago, represents the earliest successful seafaring of our species anywhere in the world. Archaeological research throughout this vast island archipelago has recovered evidence for varied patterns in island occupation, with accumulating evidence suggesting a significant change in cultural activities and interaction amongst island communities following the LGM. New forms of technology such as shell fish hooks and adzes appear alongside standardised forms of shell beads, indicating that these technological innovations were accompanied by shared styles of personal ornamentation. Simultaniously, obsidian from a single, off-island source is found in the archaeological assemblages on at least four islands. We explore these implied spheres of interaction across Wallacea, with a focus on the terminal-Pleistocene/early-Holocene cultural materials and customs linking the southeastern Wallacean islands of Alor, Timor, and Kisar, and other parts of greater Wallacea and Near Oceania.
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