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Hegemony without Sovereignty? Potters as Materially Mediating Casma Statecraft (Ancash, Peru, ca. 1000–1400 CE) 没有主权的霸权？陶工作为卡斯玛治国之道的物质媒介（秘鲁安卡什，约公元1000-1400年）

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101728

M.Elizabeth Grávalos

Taking the view that communities of potters materially mediate pre-industrial politics, this paper investigates ceramic production and circulation as a lens on Indigenous statecraft. Despite wide-scale sociopolitical transformation during the Late Intermediate Period (ca. 1000–1450 CE), the Casma polity governed several valleys of Peru’s north coast until 1400 CE. Scholars have suggested that Casma relied upon long-distance trade relationships cultivated in the prior Middle Horizon (700–1000 CE), resulting in an integrated political economy across multiple coastal valleys. Considering this, here I ask, how did communities of potters contribute to Casma’s multi-valley statecraft? I test the hypothesis of an integrated political economy through LA-ICP-MS and petrography of ceramic pastes. Data from three valleys reveal valley-based production of Casma-related ceramic styles. Rare earth element (REE) concentrations and petrographic data suggest knowledge sharing between valleys regarding the appropriate geomaterials for making Casma-molded ceramics specifically. These findings lead me to propose that Casma statecraft was a form of hegemony without sovereignty. Rather than administering direct territorial control through a strict belief system, I hypothesize that Casma created alliances within each valley. While people across multiple valleys recognized Casma authority, localized material practices and place-based landscape knowledge were necessary for Casma statecraft.

本文从陶工社群在物质上调解前工业时代政治的观点出发，以本土治国之道为视角，考察陶瓷的生产和流通。尽管在中后期（约公元1000-1450年）发生了大规模的社会政治变革，卡斯马政体统治着秘鲁北部海岸的几个山谷，直到公元1400年。学者们认为，卡斯玛依赖于在早期的“中地平线”（公元700-1000年）建立的长途贸易关系，从而形成了跨越多个沿海山谷的综合政治经济。考虑到这一点，我想问，陶工社区是如何为卡斯玛的多谷治国之道做出贡献的？我通过LA-ICP-MS和陶瓷浆料的岩石学来检验综合政治经济学的假设。来自三个山谷的数据揭示了以山谷为基础的卡斯玛相关陶瓷风格的生产。稀土元素（REE）浓度和岩石学数据表明，在适合制作卡斯玛模塑陶瓷的地质材料方面，山谷之间存在知识共享。这些发现使我提出卡斯马的治国之道是一种没有主权的霸权形式。我假设卡斯玛并没有通过严格的信仰体系来直接控制领土，而是在每个山谷中建立了联盟。虽然横跨多个山谷的人们都认可卡斯玛的权威，但对于卡斯玛的治国之道来说，本地化的材料实践和基于地点的景观知识是必要的。

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The Empire Builders: A multi-isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains from the Llullaillaco volcano cemetery (Salta, Argentina) 帝国建设者：对来自于阿根廷萨尔塔的尤拉亚科火山墓地的遗骸进行多同位素分析

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101729

Eve Poulallion , Violeta A. Killian Galván , Verónica Seldes , María Fernanda Zigarán , Gabriela Recagno Browning , Pablo Mignone , François Fourel , Pascale Richardin , Bruno Maureille , Christophe Lécuyer

The Inca statecraft dominated a vast Andean territory. The degree of direct or hegemonic control varied depending on a province’s proximity to Cusco and the characteristics of local populations. In the Collasuyu region, this often led to dramatic changes in the social, political, and ritual landscapes, as illustrated by capacocha ceremonies in high altitude sanctuaries. The volcano of Llullaillaco is exceptional not only for the quality of its offerings but also for the complexity of its architectural remains. This study focuses on seven ¹⁴C-dated individuals buried in the high-altitude cemetery of Llullaillaco, who are assumed to have been involved in the construction of the structures associated with capacocha ceremonies. Multi-isotopic analyses (δ¹³C_coll, δ¹³C_CO3, δ¹⁵N_coll, δ³⁴S_coll, δ¹⁸O_PO4, δ¹⁸O_CO3, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) were applied to reconstruct the diets and geographic origins of these individuals. The isotopic signatures indicate that most individuals were likely residents of the Atacama oases region in northern Chile. However, the discovery of one individual with a radiogenic strontium isotopic signature distinct from the regional baseline (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr = 0.71207) suggests a non-local origin, potentially linked to the Bolivian highlands. This finding highlights the complex and far-reaching networks of mobility and resource integration employed by the Inca state in its ceremonial and infrastructural endeavors.

印加帝国统治着安第斯山脉的大片领土。直接控制或霸权控制的程度取决于一个省份与库斯科的距离以及当地人口的特点。在科拉苏宇地区，这经常导致社会、政治和仪式景观的巨大变化，正如高海拔保护区的capacocha仪式所说明的那样。尤耶亚科火山的独特之处不仅在于它的产品质量，还在于其建筑遗迹的复杂性。这项研究的重点是埋在尤拉亚科高海拔墓地的7具14c年代的遗骸，他们被认为参与了与capacocha仪式相关的结构的建设。采用多同位素分析（δ13Ccoll、δ13CCO3、δ15Ncoll、δ34Scoll、δ18OPO4、δ18OCO3、87Sr/86Sr）重建了这些个体的饮食和地理来源。同位素特征表明，大多数个体可能是智利北部阿塔卡马绿洲地区的居民。然而，发现的一个个体的放射性成因锶同位素特征与区域基线不同（87Sr/86Sr = 0.71207），表明其非本地起源，可能与玻利维亚高地有关。这一发现突出了印加国家在其仪式和基础设施方面所采用的复杂而深远的流动和资源整合网络。

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Weaponry for archaeologists 考古学家的武器

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101717

Lawrence H. Keeley , Christopher L. Hernandez , Aldo W. Foe , James Meierhoff , Joanna Ruiz , Nam C. Kim , Joel W. Palka

This article examines the physio-chemical properties of weapons to provide a framework that archaeologists can use to identify artifacts of war and hunting. Weapons—any object selected or manufactured by hominins to be actively used or intended to be used to injure animals—have functions that are typically based upon or constrained by the simplest laws of physics and the facts of animal or human biology (i.e., physio-chemical properties). Building from an examination of these properties, this paper musters cross-cultural data to understand the form, use, and development of weapon types. Our investigation of shock, fire, and biological weapons highlights that the sequence of invention or adoption of weapons, in general, is highly correlated with increases in effective range.

本文考察了武器的物理化学性质，为考古学家识别战争和狩猎文物提供了一个框架。武器——任何由人类选择或制造的用于主动使用或打算用来伤害动物的物体——其功能通常基于或受最简单的物理定律和动物或人类生物学事实（即物理化学性质）的限制。通过对这些属性的研究，本文收集了跨文化数据来理解武器类型的形式、使用和发展。我们对冲击武器、火力武器和生物武器的调查强调，一般来说，发明或采用武器的顺序与有效射程的增加高度相关。

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Sociological landscape and evolutionary phenomena: a technological approach to the Neolithic southern Levant ceramic assemblages 社会学景观和进化现象：新石器时代黎凡特南部陶瓷组合的技术方法

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101716

Valentine Roux , Carine Harivel

This article re-examines the ongoing debate surrounding Early Pottery Neolithic entities in the southern Levant through a technological analysis of ceramic assemblages from five significant sites belonging to the so-called Yarmukian and Lodian/Jericho IX cultural entities. The technological analysis identifies the manufacturing process employed in vessel production across multiple scales of observation. The results reveal a uniform technological tradition throughout the southern Levant, testifying to socially-linked potter communities. The technical variant known as ‘shining’ is shown to result from a branching process, followed by its gradual selection over time. Its differential spatial distribution can be attributed to both the temporal distance between sites during demic diffusion and the formation of regional collectives.

本文通过对属于所谓的Yarmukian和Lodian/Jericho IX文化实体的五个重要遗址的陶瓷组合的技术分析，重新审视了围绕黎凡特南部早期陶器新石器时代实体的持续争论。技术分析确定了容器生产中采用的制造过程，跨越多个观察尺度。结果显示，整个黎凡特南部地区都有统一的技术传统，证明了社会联系的陶工社区。被称为“闪光”的技术变体被证明是一个分支过程的结果，随后是随着时间的推移逐渐选择。其空间分布差异可归因于疫情扩散过程中站点之间的时间距离和区域集体的形成。

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Mind the chronological gaps: The remembering, forgetting and ignoring of past materiality during the 2nd millennium BC Aegean 注意时间上的差距：公元前2000年爱琴海对过去物质的记忆、遗忘和忽视

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101718

Mercourios Georgiadis

The rich and diverse evidence from the 2nd millennium BC Aegean allows indepth analyses of how past materiality was treated in this period. Remembering, forgetting and ignoring have been important tools employed by societies on various occasions and with different meanings and aims. The mnemonoscape in the Aegean has provided a template of objects and landscapes, which received diverse treatments depending on the relatively recent or older past uses. There had also been significant variations in their functions and meanings, whilst their re-interpretation had often been analogous to the degree they belonged to same temporal and cultural context (same chrono-type) or not (different chrono-type). Furthermore, it is highlighted how forgetting and ignoring objects and landscapes played a role in memory, oblivion and the formation of new cultural conditions. A certain eclecticism of regional character can be recognized in the employment of past materiality and landscape in the 2nd millennium BC Aegean. It had often been the case that they had been associated with metaphysical and eschatological contexts.

来自公元前2000年爱琴海的丰富多样的证据可以深入分析过去的物质在这一时期是如何被对待的。记忆、遗忘和忽略一直是社会在不同场合使用的重要工具，具有不同的意义和目的。爱琴海的记忆景观提供了一个物体和景观的模板，根据相对较新的或较古老的过去的使用，它们得到了不同的处理。它们的功能和意义也有很大的不同，而它们的重新解释往往类似于它们属于同一时间和文化背景（同一时间类型）或不属于同一时间类型（不同时间类型）的程度。此外，还强调了遗忘和忽视物体和景观在记忆、遗忘和新文化条件形成中的作用。在公元前2000年的爱琴海，在过去的物质和景观的使用中，可以认识到某种地域特征的折衷主义。它们通常与形而上学和末世论的语境联系在一起。

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Variation in ancient Maya governance: A long-term perspective from the central palace at Yaxnohcah, Mexico 古玛雅统治的变化：从墨西哥亚克斯诺卡中央宫殿的长期视角

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101714

Felix Kupprat , Kathryn Reese-Taylor , Armando Anaya Hernández , Debra S. Walker , Sarah Bednar

Archaeology has seen a recent reemergence of interest in ancient forms of governance and variations in political institutions across time and space. While studies of ancient Maya politics have frequently assumed a unified political system, an increasing pool of data suggests that there was in fact a high degree of variability regarding governance and political practice. Here we discuss changes in rulership and power relations from the perspective of the inhabitants of the central palace at Yaxnohcah, focusing on social and political transformations in and beyond the site. Rulership at Yaxnohcah materialized in the Late Preclassic (400 BCE–200 CE), but associated practices shifted focus from community integration to the establishment of a central court identity in the Early Classic (200–600 CE), until courtly privileges were significantly reduced after a political regime change at nearby Calakmul around 636 CE. This case study shows how political institutions constantly adapted to a fluctuating political landscape, which implied profound shifts in both practice and ideology. It also discusses how collective decision-making may have been more pronounced at Yaxnohcah than at other contemporary sites, providing an important datapoint for a general reevaluation of variation in governance in the Maya area and beyond.

考古学最近发现，人们对古代治理形式和跨越时空的政治制度的变化重新产生了兴趣。虽然对古玛雅政治的研究经常假设一个统一的政治制度，但越来越多的数据表明，事实上，在治理和政治实践方面存在高度的可变性。在这里，我们从Yaxnohcah中央宫殿居民的角度讨论统治和权力关系的变化，重点关注该遗址内外的社会和政治变革。Yaxnohcah的统治在前古典晚期（公元前400年-公元200年）实现，但相关的实践在早期古典时期（公元200-600年）将重点从社区整合转移到建立中央法院身份，直到公元636年附近的Calakmul发生政治政权更迭后，法院特权显著减少。这个案例研究展示了政治制度如何不断适应波动的政治格局，这意味着实践和意识形态的深刻转变。它还讨论了集体决策如何在雅克斯诺卡比在其他当代遗址更明显，为普遍重新评估玛雅地区及其他地区的治理变化提供了重要的数据点。

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Archaeology’s epistemological breadth: Collaborative-Indigenous and ontological turns in historical perspective 考古学的认识论广度：历史视角下的协作-本土与本体论转向

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101715

Craig N. Cipolla

This paper considers two Indigenous-oriented approaches in contemporary archaeology that seek to increase archaeology’s epistemological breadth: collaborative Indigenous archaeology and the ontological turn. One more practical, the other more theoretical, these approaches are rarely considered together. Each seeks to build new connections between archaeology and Indigenous peoples, politics, and/or perspectives. These connections increase focus on Indigenous knowledges while identifying—and correcting for—the arbitrary modernist values that undergird the discipline. Although they prioritize similar goals, these approaches take very different paths. By placing them into historical context and highlighting connections to previous anthropological and archaeological engagements with difference or “alterity,” this paper emphasizes important similarities and differences between these approaches. Drawing historical parallels with relativist and feminist turns, this comparison shows important distinctions between how new practitioners and new theories help to expand archaeology’s epistemological breadth.

本文考虑了当代考古学中两种寻求增加考古学认识论广度的土著取向方法：合作土著考古学和本体论转向。一种更实用，另一种更理论化，这些方法很少被放在一起考虑。每个人都试图在考古学和土著人民、政治和/或观点之间建立新的联系。这些联系增加了对本土知识的关注，同时识别并纠正了支撑该学科的武断的现代主义价值观。尽管它们优先考虑相似的目标，但这些方法采用的路径却截然不同。通过将它们置于历史背景中，并强调与先前人类学和考古学研究的差异或“差异性”的联系，本文强调了这些方法之间的重要相似性和差异性。通过与相对主义和女权主义转向的历史对比，这种比较显示了新实践者和新理论如何帮助扩展考古学的认识论广度之间的重要区别。

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The material production of cultural difference in real time: Punjabi, Bengali, and NWFP-ness among Partition refugees in Delhi 实时文化差异的物质生产：德里分治难民中的旁遮普语，孟加拉语和nwfp

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101682

Erin P. Riggs

Archaeologists understand the limitations of viewing cultural categories as deterministic of material culture use and preference. Nonetheless, it is challenging to avoid such assumptions when attempting to interpret material patterns associated with moments of migration. This paper considers how regional identities shaped the ways refugees interacted with resettlement housing landscapes in Delhi (India) following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. Collating information from in-site survey, oral history interviews, and documentary records, I argue that refugees often view their prePartition regional identities as a major orienting factor in how they have interacted with urban landscapes in the city. Punjabi refugees self-describe their resettlement spaces as modern and quick-changing. Bengali refugees highlight the green space and festival grounds in their communities. Refugees from the North West Frontier Provence highlight their resilience in the face of coercive government planning. All view foregrounding such identities as means to counter the negative stereotypes associated with the broader identifier “refugee.” This case study highlights how individuals can themselves contribute to dominant narratives about the determinism of cultural identities and associated material signifiers.

考古学家了解将文化类别视为物质文化使用和偏好的决定性因素的局限性。尽管如此，在试图解释与迁移时刻相关的物质模式时，避免这样的假设是具有挑战性的。本文考虑了1947年南亚分治后，区域身份如何塑造了德里（印度）难民与安置住房景观的互动方式。整理了现场调查、口述历史访谈和文献记录的信息后，我认为难民通常将他们在分割前的区域身份视为他们如何与城市景观互动的主要导向因素。旁遮普难民自我描述他们的安置空间是现代和快速变化的。孟加拉难民强调他们社区的绿地和节日场地。来自西北边境普罗旺斯的难民强调了他们面对强制性政府计划的韧性。所有人都认为，突出这些身份是对抗与更广泛的“难民”标识符相关的负面刻板印象的手段。本案例研究强调了个人如何为文化身份决定论和相关物质能指的主导叙事做出贡献。

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Unveiling social identification, shared social identity, and collective memory as collective resilience factors: Insights from the Kura-Araxes diaspora 揭示社会认同、共同社会认同和集体记忆作为集体恢复力因素：来自库拉-阿拉克斯散居的见解

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101713

Sepideh Maziar , Luise M. Erfurth

During and after migration, communities can experience adaptive processes leading to collective resilience. Such processes are shaped by the challenges these communities face in adjusting to new social contexts, cultural backgrounds, and occasionally new environmental conditions. Undergoing a relocation process outside of a homeland, namely in a diaspora, is a strenuous venture. On the one hand, social psychological research shows that the loss of a close-knit community, once strongly attached to a social and natural environment, can leave individuals in precarious physical and mental states. Resilience research, on the other hand, demonstrates that specific resilience factors, such as social identification and shared social identity, strengthen communities affected by relocation, thereby buffering the negative effects on physical and mental health.

In an interdisciplinary effort, this study integrates archaeological evidence with theories from social psychology and resilience research to explore long-term mechanisms of collective resilience. Focusing on the Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes society–one of the largest prehistoric diasporic communities in southwest Asia during the mid–fourth millennium BCE–we examine how material culture contributed to sustaining group cohesion and resilience in diasporic contexts. Our analysis demonstrates that social identification, shared social identity, and collective memory among Kura-Araxes communities functioned as resilience-enhancing factors over time. These findings deepen current understandings of collective resilience processes and open new avenues for investigating material culture as an agent of resilience. Moreover, the study highlights the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration to inform both archaeological interpretation and contemporary discussions on community resilience in the face of displacement and stress.

在移民期间和之后，社区可以经历适应过程，从而形成集体复原力。这些过程是由这些社区在适应新的社会背景、文化背景和偶尔的新环境条件时所面临的挑战所塑造的。在祖国之外经历重新安置的过程，即散居，是一项艰苦的冒险。一方面，社会心理学研究表明，失去一个紧密联系的社区，一旦强烈地依附于社会和自然环境，会使个人处于不稳定的身心状态。另一方面，弹性研究表明，特定的弹性因素，如社会认同和共同社会认同，加强了受搬迁影响的社区，从而缓冲了对身心健康的负面影响。本研究将考古学证据与社会心理学和心理弹性研究的理论相结合，探索集体心理弹性的长期机制。聚焦于青铜时代早期的库拉-阿拉克斯社会——公元前四千年中叶西南亚最大的史前散居社区之一——我们研究了物质文化如何在散居背景下维持群体凝聚力和弹性。我们的分析表明，随着时间的推移，库拉-阿拉克斯社区之间的社会认同、共同的社会认同和集体记忆发挥了增强复原力的作用。这些发现加深了目前对集体弹性过程的理解，并为研究物质文化作为弹性的代理人开辟了新的途径。此外，该研究强调了跨学科合作的潜力，为面对流离失所和压力的社区恢复力的考古解释和当代讨论提供了信息。

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Technical aspects of Bell Beaker pottery decoration in North-Eastern Poland 波兰东北部钟烧杯陶器装饰的技术方面

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101712

Aleksandra Cetwińska , Joanna Dymańska , Dariusz Manasterski

Pottery decoration, though not essential for a vessel’s function, offers key insights into past societies. Beyond aesthetics, it reflects technological skill, social identity, and cultural interaction. This study examines Bell Beaker pottery from north-eastern Poland, a region notable for its stylistic ties to western Bell Beaker groups and its role in early Bronze Age developments. Through detailed macro- and microscopic overview, as well as experimental research, it provides critical insights into the technical abilities of potters and the functioning of stylistic traditions, revealing both continuity and local adaptation. Decoration emerges here as a deliberate, structured practice embedded in shared cognitive frameworks: mental templates guided by a specific ‘visibility regime’. The outcomes further suggest the emergence of a local Bell Beaker community of practice, which adhered to broader stylistic conventions, while simultaneously developing its own unique approach. These findings demonstrate that pottery decoration can be a powerful tool for tracing cultural interactions, knowledge exchange, and identity formation in prehistoric Europe. By shedding light on these dynamics, this research contributes to global discussions on how material culture encodes social and technological information, making it relevant to both European prehistory specialists and anyone interested in the long-term transmission of ideas and craft traditions.

陶器的装饰虽然对器皿的功能来说不是必不可少的，但却提供了了解过去社会的关键信息。除了美学之外，它还反映了技术技能、社会身份和文化互动。本研究考察了来自波兰东北部的贝尔烧杯陶器，该地区以其与西部贝尔烧杯群体的风格联系以及其在早期青铜时代发展中的作用而闻名。通过详细的宏观和微观概述，以及实验研究，它为陶工的技术能力和风格传统的功能提供了重要的见解，揭示了连续性和地方适应性。在这里，装饰是一种深思熟虑的、结构化的实践，嵌入在共同的认知框架中：由特定的“可见性制度”指导的心理模板。结果进一步表明，出现了一个当地的贝尔烧杯社区的做法，坚持更广泛的风格惯例，同时发展自己独特的方法。这些发现表明，陶器装饰可以成为追踪史前欧洲文化互动、知识交流和身份形成的有力工具。通过揭示这些动态，这项研究有助于全球讨论物质文化如何编码社会和技术信息，使其与欧洲史前专家和任何对思想和工艺传统的长期传播感兴趣的人相关。

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