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“Weaving” the tupi: The study of kʷaẽ language and the persistence of pottery-making knowledge among the Akuntsu women, southwestern Amazon “编织”图皮：亚马孙西南部Akuntsu妇女对k -阿卡语的研究和对制陶知识的坚持

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101691

Carolina Coelho Aragon , Roseline Mezacasa , Juliana Salles Machado

Grounded in the archaeology of persistence, decolonial perspectives, and technological approaches to ceramic manufacture, this study examines pottery-making as both a material expression of resilience and a site of ongoing identity negotiation. Integrating notions of intersubjectivity and intercorporeality, this paper explores the interrelation between technical processes, embodied knowledge, and territorial experiences. Focusing on the persistence of pottery-making knowledge among Akuntsu women (Tupi, Tupari), the study highlights its ties to cosmology. The Akuntsu, a recently-contacted Indigenous people, faced genocidal attacks as their ancestral territory in the Rondônia State, Brazil, was violated. Today, only three Akuntsu women—Pugapia, Aiga, and Babawro—remain as survivors of this group. To understand the chaîne opératoire of pottery production among Akuntsu women, this research promotes interdisciplinary dialogue, recognizing the fusion of knowledge with territorial, language, and material experiences from an ethnoarchaeological perspective. We explore the interplay between women featured in historical narratives, fermented beverage, saliva, tupi (clay), and pottery-making process as carriers of subjectivity and potentiality. The findings reveal that the chaîne opératoire of production of kʷaẽ (clay pots) endures as a cultural practice despite historical disruption from contact-related violence. The persistence of the three Akuntsu women in tupi shaping exemplifies the resilience of their traditions and illustrates how Indigenous material practices engage with broader debates on persistence, coloniality, and the interconnections between bodies, artifacts, and territories.

本研究立足于陶瓷制造的持久性考古学、非殖民化视角和技术方法，将陶器制作作为一种韧性的材料表达和一种正在进行的身份协商的场所进行研究。本文结合主体间性和肉体间性的概念，探讨技术过程、具身知识和地域经验之间的相互关系。研究聚焦于Akuntsu女性（图皮人，图帕里人）持续的制陶知识，强调了其与宇宙学的联系。Akuntsu人是最近接触的土著人民，由于其祖先在巴西Rondônia州的领土受到侵犯，他们面临种族灭绝攻击。今天，只有三个Akuntsu女性- pugapia， Aiga和babawro -仍然是这个群体的幸存者。为了了解Akuntsu妇女陶器生产的cha ne opsamatoire，本研究促进跨学科对话，从民族考古学的角度认识到知识与领土、语言和物质经验的融合。我们探索历史叙事中的女性、发酵饮料、唾液、陶土和制陶过程之间的相互作用，作为主体性和潜在性的载体。研究结果表明，尽管与接触有关的暴力在历史上造成了破坏，但生产k k a a a（陶罐）的cha ne opsamatoire作为一种文化习俗仍然存在。三位Akuntsu女性对tupi造型的坚持体现了她们传统的韧性，并说明了土著材料实践如何与持久性，殖民性以及身体，文物和领土之间的相互联系进行更广泛的辩论。

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Wetlands and grasslands: Habitat choice of hunters and herders across the transition to mobile pastoralism in Mongolia’s desert-steppe 湿地和草原：蒙古沙漠草原向流动畜牧业过渡过程中猎人和牧民的栖息地选择

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101685

Jennifer M. Farquhar , Arlene Rosen , Loukas Barton , Robert Drennan , Claire E. Ebert , Dalantai Sarantuya , Yadmaa Tserendagva

This paper presents the results of a study that investigates the settlement history of Mongolia’s desert-steppe to understand the role of foragers in the evolution of pastoralism. The study examines land use, mobility, technological organization, and environmental context prior to, during, and after the transition to food production (Neolithic-Kitan Periods, ca. 6050 BCE-1150 CE) to detect differences in how, when, and why people moved, illuminating how people make decisions about existing environments. Employing frameworks of habitat suitability and behavioral optimization, this study documents important shifts in land use and mobility across the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition (ca. 2550 BCE) as people began to take up herding. Settlement and population patterns indicate a pronounced change in habitat choice across this transition, suggesting that preferences of committed herding societies (Iron Age and beyond) were firmly established during the Bronze Age as people began to prioritize upland grasslands and productive wintertime vegetation. This shift coincided with the onset of dry, cool conditions, a reversal of wetter, cool environments where prior foragers targeted a broad range of habitats, including wetlands. These patterns set the stage for adaptations that came to define mobile pastoralism across Eurasia including high residential mobility, long distance connections, social differentiation, and broadly adopted mortuary traditions.

本文介绍了一项研究的结果，该研究调查了蒙古荒漠草原的定居历史，以了解觅食者在畜牧业演变中的作用。该研究考察了土地利用、流动性、技术组织和环境背景，在向粮食生产过渡之前、期间和之后（新石器时代-契丹时期，公元前6050年-公元前1150年），以检测人们如何、何时以及为什么移动的差异，阐明了人们如何对现有环境做出决定。采用栖息地适宜性和行为优化框架，本研究记录了新石器时代至青铜时代（公元前2550年左右）人类开始从事放牧时土地利用和流动性的重要转变。定居和人口模式表明，在这一转变过程中，人类对栖息地的选择发生了显著变化，这表明，在青铜时代，人们开始优先考虑高地草原和多产的冬季植被，从而坚定地确立了忠诚的放牧社会（铁器时代及以后）的偏好。这一转变与干燥、凉爽环境的开始相吻合，这与以前觅食者瞄准包括湿地在内的广泛栖息地的潮湿、凉爽环境的逆转。这些模式为适应奠定了基础，这些适应后来定义了欧亚大陆的流动畜牧业，包括高居住流动性、远距离联系、社会分化和广泛采用的殡葬传统。

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Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England 17世纪新英格兰南部白尾鹿的商品化

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101693

Elic M. Weitzel

Sustainable natural resource use and management is widely proposed as the solution to our current planetary ecological crises. However, there are multiple pathways to sustainability: consume fewer resources or modify the environment to be more productive. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century New England provide an informative case study of the historical ecology of sustainable and unsustainable natural resource use as the species was ostensibly used sustainably by Native peoples for millennia but hunted nearly to extinction soon after European colonization. Zooarchaeological analyses of white-tailed deer remains from two sites in the lower Connecticut River Valley suggest that deer abundance in this locality declined in the 17th century due to increased hunting pressure consistent with commodification of the species within a novel mercantile capitalist economy. Depression of this deer population in the 17th century—at a time of general human population decline—appears to have been driven by capitalist market forces that increased demand for deerskin clothing for purposes of social signaling. These results illustrate the importance of addressing the harms of commodification when promoting sustainable natural resource use and management.

可持续的自然资源利用和管理被广泛认为是解决当前地球生态危机的办法。然而，可持续发展有多种途径：消耗更少的资源或改变环境以提高生产力。17世纪新英格兰的白尾鹿（Odocoileus virginianus）提供了一个关于可持续和不可持续自然资源利用的历史生态学的翔实案例研究，因为该物种表面上被土著人民可持续地使用了数千年，但在欧洲殖民后不久就被捕杀几乎灭绝。对康涅狄格河谷下游两个地点的白尾鹿遗骸进行的动物考古分析表明，17世纪，由于新的商业资本主义经济中该物种的商品化，狩猎压力增加，该地区的鹿数量下降。这种鹿的数量在17世纪出现了下降——在人类总体数量下降的时候——这似乎是由资本主义市场力量造成的，资本主义市场力量增加了对鹿皮服装的需求，以达到社会信号的目的。这些结果说明了在促进可持续的自然资源利用和管理时解决商品化危害的重要性。

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Integrating cross-collections research and archival study: new insights on macaws and parrots from Chaco Canyon, NM 整合跨收藏研究和档案研究：新墨西哥州查科峡谷金刚鹦鹉和鹦鹉的新见解

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101690

Katelyn J. Bishop

North American archaeology is increasingly embracing the study of existing museum collections to fulfill longstanding ethical obligations to document curated materials and to avoid unnecessary excavation of archaeological sites. Working with collections from historic excavations in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, this article confronts some of the challenges of collections-based research and demonstrates the benefits of overcoming them. Chaco was the center of a regional network that developed in the northern U.S. Southwest between AD 800 and 1150. Frequently referenced is the presence of nonlocal macaws and parrots, brought in and raised within the canyon. The foundation of our understanding of these birds, however, remains shaky. The research presented here integrates a zooarchaeological reanalysis with legacy data and archival documentation from more than 130 years of archaeological exploration. It provides a revised number of individuals, diachronic and spatial perspectives on deposition, evidence for the practice of curation, and insight into the care that birds were afforded. The construction of osteobiographies refocuses attention on these birds as living beings rather than as objects leveraged in trade and social status. Though often complex and time-consuming, working across multiple collections—both artifactual and archival—has the potential to provide new insights from “old” data.

北美考古学越来越多地接受对现有博物馆藏品的研究，以履行长期以来的道德义务，记录精心策划的材料，并避免不必要的考古遗址挖掘。本文研究了新墨西哥州查科峡谷历史发掘的藏品，面对了基于藏品的研究的一些挑战，并展示了克服这些挑战的好处。查科是公元800年至1150年间在美国北部西南部发展起来的区域网络的中心。经常被提及的是外来金刚鹦鹉和鹦鹉的存在，它们被引入峡谷并在峡谷内饲养。然而，我们对这些鸟类的理解基础仍然不稳固。这里提出的研究整合了动物考古学的再分析，以及来自130多年考古探索的遗留数据和档案文件。它提供了经过修订的个体数量，沉积的历时和空间视角，策展实践的证据，以及对鸟类提供护理的见解。骨传记的构建将注意力重新集中到这些鸟类身上，把它们作为活生生的生物，而不是作为贸易和社会地位的杠杆。尽管通常复杂且耗时，但跨多个集合（包括人工和存档）的工作有可能从“旧”数据中提供新的见解。

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Mask motifs in the land of geometrics. A systematic exploration of the rock art landscapes of Southern Mendoza region (Central-West Argentina) 几何领域的面具图案。对南门多萨地区（阿根廷中西部）岩石艺术景观的系统探索

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101692

Danae Fiore , Agustín Acevedo , Hugo A. Tucker

This paper is based on a theoretical perspective focused on the materiality of rock art: breaking away from the primacy of communication and representation in the archaeology of art, it proposes a set of concepts to approach the engagement of people with rock art via its techno-visual and performative qualities. These concepts are applied to a regional case study in Southern Mendoza (Central-West Argentina), in order to characterise the visual codes underlying the materiality of images. Rock art landscapes are characterised by analysing a database of 89 sites in the three biogeographical units: Altoandina, Patagonia and Monte. Technical choices are related to taphonomic and economic factors such as differential conservation of engravings vs. paintings, support hardness, and labour investment in image production. A relational map shows two different sets of inter-site relations, each one characterised by recurring motif-class combinations within the region. The links between motifs’ morphologies and techniques are systematically analysed, leading to the identification of certain motif classes (e.g. geometric motifs) which were “technically-flexible” enough to be produced via different techniques –their meanings being probably more rooted in their morphology–, versus other “not technically-flexible” motif classes (e.g. head-mask figures) which were only produced with specific techniques, thus suggesting that their contents/messages, aesthetic effects and performative functions stemmed from a combination of techno-visual and morphological features embedded in their materialities. In sum, the paper shows how the engagement of people with rock art motifs and landscapes involves perception and production processes that shape their materialities.

本文基于一个关注岩石艺术物质性的理论视角：脱离了艺术考古学中交流和表现的首要地位，它提出了一套概念，通过岩石艺术的技术视觉和表演品质来接近人们与岩石艺术的接触。这些概念被应用到南门多萨（阿根廷中西部）的一个区域案例研究中，以描述图像重要性背后的视觉代码。岩石艺术景观通过分析三个生物地理单元（Altoandina， Patagonia和Monte）的89个地点的数据库来表征。技术选择与地貌学和经济因素有关，例如雕刻与绘画的差异保护，支撑硬度和图像制作中的劳动力投资。关系图显示了两组不同的站点间关系，每一组都以区域内重复出现的主题类别组合为特征。系统地分析了图案形态和技术之间的联系，从而确定了某些图案类别（例如几何图案），它们具有足够的“技术灵活性”，可以通过不同的技术制作-它们的意义可能更植根于它们的形态-与其他“不具有技术灵活性”的图案类别（例如头罩人物）相比，它们只能通过特定的技术制作，因此表明它们的内容/信息，美学效果和表演功能源于其材料中嵌入的技术视觉和形态特征的结合。总之，本文展示了人们与岩石艺术主题和景观的接触如何涉及塑造其材料的感知和生产过程。

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Mold-making technology at architectural compound 60 (CA-60): A newly discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche, Peru 建筑大院60 （CA-60）的模具制造技术：秘鲁Huacas de Moche新发现的陶瓷车间

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101677

Federico Mosna , Carlos Rengifo

Ceramic molding is often addressed as a simple, repetitive, and standardized technique. Similarly, mold-making, though much less studied than molding itself, is frequently viewed as equally straightforward. Yet what specific gestures, techniques, and tools are involved in mold-making? Does internal technical variability exist behind apparent external standardization? What insights into ancient craft production can mold-making evidence provide? This paper addresses these questions through a technological study of molds from a recently discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche (Trujillo, Peru). Our study reveals that mold-making comprises multiple complex sequential steps with significant technological variation. We suggest that local Moche artisans maintained autonomy in their mold production methods, employing diverse technological approaches while sharing a common artistic repertoire, meanwhile elite oversight ensured quality standards in final products.

陶瓷成型通常被认为是一种简单、重复和标准化的技术。同样地，模具制造虽然比成型本身研究得少得多，但通常被视为同样简单。然而，模具制作中涉及到哪些具体的手势、技术和工具呢？在明显的外部标准化背后是否存在内部技术可变性？模具制造的证据能提供什么关于古代工艺生产的见解？本文通过对最近在Huacas de Moche （Trujillo，秘鲁）发现的陶瓷车间的模具进行技术研究，解决了这些问题。我们的研究表明，模具制造包括多个复杂的连续步骤，具有显著的技术变化。我们建议当地的莫切工匠在模具生产方法上保持自主权，采用不同的技术方法，同时分享共同的艺术曲目，同时精英监督确保最终产品的质量标准。

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Valencina: A copper age polity 瓦伦西娜：铜时代的政体

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101688

Leonardo García Sanjuán , Timothy Earle

For a century, Copper Age Iberia (c. 3200-2200 BCE) has been seen as a grand laboratory for discussions of early social complexity. And yet, most theories were, from an empirical view point, infra-determined, as evidence was limited and restricted to a few sites. This situation has changed, as the availability of high-quality scientific data for a broader spectrum of sites now provides opportunities for fresh theoretical approaches. We propose a new take on emergent Iberian Copper Age social organisation, based on elements of political economy and collective action. We use the Valencina Copper Age mega-site, located in south-western Spain, to postulate the crucial role played by monumentalised central places in early complex societies. This site, and others like it, operated as attractors of large contingents of people, probably in the thousands, for social congregations that extended the fabric of society along a distinctive Neolithic pattern. Monument-building, largely (but not only) in the form of megaliths and ditched enclosures, brought people together, creating and maintaining a sense of belonging and cooperation, while at the same time keeping in check top-down impulses for more authoritarian and centralised political organisation. In the Neolithic tradition, monuments appear to create identity tied to place among expanding corporate social groups. Copper Age social formations lived in a ‘monument-oriented’ mode of production of sorts, in which the establishment of place and associated monumentalism served both to encourage and ‘burn’ surplus that could otherwise be manipulated and controlled by aspiring leaders. As part of this process, distinctive female leadership emerged at Valencina as materialized by identities supported by sumptuary objects made on exotic raw materials and produced by specialists. The social world built around Valencina as a monumentalised central place came to a rather abrupt end c. 2300, after which a different social medium, the Bronze Age, was started.

一个世纪以来，铜器时代的伊比利亚（公元前3200-2200年）一直被视为讨论早期社会复杂性的大实验室。然而，从经验的角度来看，大多数理论都是不确定的，因为证据是有限的，而且仅限于少数几个地点。这种情况已经改变，因为高质量的科学数据的可用性为更广泛的地点提供了新的理论方法的机会。基于政治经济和集体行动的要素，我们提出了一种新的伊比利亚铜器时代社会组织。我们利用位于西班牙西南部的瓦伦西纳铜器时代的大型遗址，来假设在早期复杂社会中，纪念性的中心地区所起的关键作用。这个地方和其他类似的地方，吸引了大量的人，可能有成千上万的人，社会集会沿着独特的新石器时代模式扩展了社会结构。纪念碑的建造，在很大程度上（但不仅仅是）以巨石和围墙的形式，将人们聚集在一起，创造并保持了一种归属感和合作感，同时也抑制了自上而下的倾向于更专制和集中的政治组织的冲动。在新石器时代的传统中，纪念碑似乎在不断扩大的企业社会群体中创造了与位置相关的身份。铜器时代的社会形态生活在一种“以纪念碑为导向”的生产模式中，在这种模式中，地方的建立和相关的纪念碑主义都是为了鼓励和“燃烧”剩余，否则这些剩余可能被有抱负的领导人操纵和控制。作为这一过程的一部分，瓦伦西纳出现了独特的女性领导力，这些领导力通过由异国原料制成的奢侈物品和专家制作的物品来实现。以瓦伦西亚为中心的社会世界在2300年突然结束，之后开始了一种不同的社会媒介——青铜时代。

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A reappraisal of interaction spheres 对相互作用领域的重新评价

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101686

Daniel A. LaDu

Migration and diffusion are universal phenomena that fell out of favor in American archaeology during the processulist turn. David Anthony’s 1990 defense spurred renewed interest in migration as a structured behavior worthy of serious analysis; yet we continue to dismiss diffusion as a nonexplanatory cultural force that is both difficult to identify in the material record and overemphasizes the roles that internal invention and external stimuli play in the process of culture change. The interaction sphere concept offers us an established theoretical means of rehabilitating diffusion and integrating the other microsocial theories, frameworks, and perspectives that have since proliferated. This article outlines seven key tenets: four drawn from the formative Eastern Woodlands literature, two illustrated in an indigenous North American map making tradition, and a final tenet observed in the application of the concept to the complex issue of Plaquemine cultural emergence in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Without acknowledging the vital role that intellectual and material exchange plays in the process of continuity, innovation, and change, we continue to ignore the many ways in which interaction shaped history. I advocate for a return to the concept of interaction spheres for the same reasons originally promoted by Joseph Caldwell: it contributes a new understanding of the archaeology, it facilitates comparisons between different networks of extra-regional exchange, and it correlates well with various other theoretical models.

迁移和扩散是一种普遍现象，但在美国考古学转向过程主义的过程中，这种现象不再受青睐。大卫·安东尼1990年的辩护重新激起了人们对移民作为一种值得认真分析的结构化行为的兴趣；然而，我们继续将传播视为一种难以解释的文化力量，这种力量既难以在物质记录中识别，又过分强调内部发明和外部刺激在文化变革过程中所起的作用。互动领域的概念为我们提供了一种既定的理论手段来恢复扩散和整合其他微观社会理论、框架和观点，这些理论、框架和观点已经扩散。本文概述了七个关键原则：四个来自形成性的东部伍德兰文学，两个来自北美土著地图制作传统，最后一个原则是在将这一概念应用于密西西比河谷下游普拉克明文化出现的复杂问题时观察到的。如果不承认智力和物质交流在延续、创新和变革过程中所起的重要作用，我们就会继续忽视互动塑造历史的许多方式。我主张回归互动领域的概念，原因与约瑟夫·考德威尔（Joseph Caldwell）最初提出的原因相同：它有助于对考古学的新理解，它有助于比较不同的区域外交换网络，并且它与各种其他理论模型密切相关。

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Culinary chronicles of ancient Ebla: A multidisciplinary exploration of diet, nutrition, and health in a 3rd millennium BCE Syrian civilization 古代埃博拉的烹饪编年史：公元前三千年叙利亚文明中饮食、营养和健康的多学科探索

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101689

Ninar AlJerf , Abdullah H. Maad , Loai Aljerf

The discovery of Ebla in 1964 revolutionized our understanding of ancient Near Eastern civilizations, offering a unique glimpse into the sophisticated urban culture that flourished in the 3rd millennium BCE. Despite extensive research on Ebla’s administrative and cultural achievements, its culinary traditions have remained largely unexplored. This study seeks to fill this knowledge gap by reconstructing the dietary habits and nutritional practices of ancient Ebla through a comprehensive analysis of historical records and archaeological findings. By integrating insights from food biochemistry, historical analysis, and cultural context, we provide a nuanced understanding of the intricate relationships between food, culture, and well-being in this ancient civilization. Our findings reveal a diet rich in whole, minimally processed foods, with a strong emphasis on local, seasonal ingredients and traditional cooking techniques. This study highlights the importance of preserving cultural heritage and embracing traditional wisdoms in promoting optimal health and sustainability. The implications of our research are far-reaching, offering a compelling model for promoting healthy eating habits in contemporary populations and informing modern approaches to nutrition and health.

1964年埃博拉病毒的发现彻底改变了我们对古代近东文明的认识，为我们提供了一个独特的机会，让我们得以一窥公元前3000年繁荣的复杂城市文化。尽管对埃博拉的行政和文化成就进行了广泛的研究，但其烹饪传统在很大程度上仍未被探索。本研究通过对历史记录和考古发现的综合分析，试图通过重建古代埃博拉的饮食习惯和营养实践来填补这一知识空白。通过整合食物生物化学、历史分析和文化背景的见解，我们对这个古老文明中食物、文化和幸福之间的复杂关系提供了细致入微的理解。我们的研究结果表明，饮食中富含完整的、最低限度加工的食品，强调当地的、时令的食材和传统的烹饪技术。这项研究强调了保护文化遗产和拥抱传统智慧在促进最佳健康和可持续性方面的重要性。我们的研究具有深远的意义，为促进当代人群的健康饮食习惯提供了一个令人信服的模型，并为现代营养和健康方法提供了信息。

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Recovering a substantive landscape of mobility 恢复流动性的实质性景观

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101684

Mark Hauser

This special issue explores the complex question: What does it mean to talk about identity in the context of subjects shaped by mobility, and what insights can archaeology provide that other fields may overlook? This inquiry lies at the heart of both archaeology and historical archaeology, which have long grappled with the diverse mobilities and identities reflected in the archaeological record. As this issue demonstrates, these studies are more than just academic exercises—they respond to contemporary global debates on migration, where material evidence is often politicized to construct “others.” The papers demonstrate how mobility, enacted across various scales, reshapes geographies and reveals the frictions experienced by past subjects. This approach moves beyond mere recovery of individual experiences to interrogate the ideological structures that legitimize social hierarchies. By focusing on the variety of past human mobilities and their material legacies, the authors suggest that archaeology can contribute significantly to understanding migration as a complex driver of human history. Ultimately, this collection highlights the need to explore how these intellectual practices intersect with global inequalities in wealth and risk-free mobility between the global north and south.

本特刊探讨了一个复杂的问题：在流动性塑造的主体背景下谈论身份认同意味着什么？考古学能够提供哪些其他领域可能忽略的见解？这一问题是考古学和历史考古学的核心所在，长期以来，考古学和历史考古学一直在努力解决考古记录中所反映的各种流动性和身份问题。正如本期所展示的，这些研究不仅仅是学术活动--它们回应了当代全球关于移民的争论，在这些争论中，物质证据往往被政治化以构建 "他人"。这些论文展示了跨越不同尺度的流动是如何重塑地理格局并揭示过去主体所经历的摩擦的。这种研究方法超越了单纯的个人经历复原，而是对使社会等级合法化的意识形态结构进行了拷问。通过关注过去人类流动的多样性及其物质遗产，作者认为考古学可以为理解作为人类历史复杂驱动力的移民做出重大贡献。最终，这本文集强调了探索这些知识实践如何与全球财富不平等以及全球南北之间无风险流动性相交织的必要性。

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