Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1966260
J. Smyth, R. Gillis
The management and utilisation of mostly novel plant and animal species for food and other products has long been recognised as a central component of the Neolithic. The period has frequently been characterised as marking a tipping point in food procurement activities, a shift that has had a fundamental impact on societies today. While there may be little difference between the modes and means of subsistence strategies (e.g. Ingold 1988) – from hunting to management of domesticated species, and from collection of wild plants to planting and cropping of domesticate cultivars – what is significantly different is that for the first time over large regions of Europe the major building blocks of Neolithic diet were the same, i.e. cereal and pulse cultivars and domesticate animal species. Across this vast geographic span, we might expect that such building blocks were re-configured and adapted at local or regional scales (e.g. Manning et al. 2013). There is also growing evidence for differences in organisational scale, e.g. between intensive small-scale garden plots and extensive systems of transhumance (Bogaard et al. 2016; Montes et al. 2020); differences in resource utilisation, e.g. mountain pastures and forests (Schibler 2017; Knockaert et al. 2017; Hejcmanová, Stejskalová, and Hejcman 2013); differences in how plant and animal systems integrated with one another (Fraser et al. 2013; Styring et al. 2017; Gillis et al. 2017), as well as differences in food processing techniques. This variation appears as much related to the pre-existing needs and cultural identity of populations as to the environmental context and niche construction (e.g. Kreuz and Marinova 2017; Gillis et al. 2019). At the same time, the qualities – and indeed agency – of these new food sources and procurement practices undoubtedly structured the lives of communities in turn, creating new seasons of activity and gradually shaping social identities and traditional practices. Within this, events such as the slaughter of animals or the gathering of harvests became important mechanisms to celebrate community and reaffirm bonds between different groups (Marciniak 2005; Wright et al. 2014; Madgwick et al. 2019). As domesticated animals and plants gained an economic hold within societies, we can imagine that their symbolic value and importance for the well-being of communities also grew (Bogucki 1988). For example, the multiple iconographic representations of cattle are probably a reflection of their greater productivity (milk, meat, and traction) in comparison to other domesticates (Marciniak 2005; Le Quellec 2011). Cattle are also relatively slow-growing, requiring investment in terms of fodder, adequate access to water and housing in order to reach adulthood and maximise this productivity (Bogucki 1993; Russell 1998; Gillis et al. 2017). The number of societies, past and present, for whom cattle are central to wealth and status reminds us that any discussions of productivity must also
{"title":"Food and Farming Systems in the Neolithic – an Impossible Vista?","authors":"J. Smyth, R. Gillis","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.1966260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1966260","url":null,"abstract":"The management and utilisation of mostly novel plant and animal species for food and other products has long been recognised as a central component of the Neolithic. The period has frequently been characterised as marking a tipping point in food procurement activities, a shift that has had a fundamental impact on societies today. While there may be little difference between the modes and means of subsistence strategies (e.g. Ingold 1988) – from hunting to management of domesticated species, and from collection of wild plants to planting and cropping of domesticate cultivars – what is significantly different is that for the first time over large regions of Europe the major building blocks of Neolithic diet were the same, i.e. cereal and pulse cultivars and domesticate animal species. Across this vast geographic span, we might expect that such building blocks were re-configured and adapted at local or regional scales (e.g. Manning et al. 2013). There is also growing evidence for differences in organisational scale, e.g. between intensive small-scale garden plots and extensive systems of transhumance (Bogaard et al. 2016; Montes et al. 2020); differences in resource utilisation, e.g. mountain pastures and forests (Schibler 2017; Knockaert et al. 2017; Hejcmanová, Stejskalová, and Hejcman 2013); differences in how plant and animal systems integrated with one another (Fraser et al. 2013; Styring et al. 2017; Gillis et al. 2017), as well as differences in food processing techniques. This variation appears as much related to the pre-existing needs and cultural identity of populations as to the environmental context and niche construction (e.g. Kreuz and Marinova 2017; Gillis et al. 2019). At the same time, the qualities – and indeed agency – of these new food sources and procurement practices undoubtedly structured the lives of communities in turn, creating new seasons of activity and gradually shaping social identities and traditional practices. Within this, events such as the slaughter of animals or the gathering of harvests became important mechanisms to celebrate community and reaffirm bonds between different groups (Marciniak 2005; Wright et al. 2014; Madgwick et al. 2019). As domesticated animals and plants gained an economic hold within societies, we can imagine that their symbolic value and importance for the well-being of communities also grew (Bogucki 1988). For example, the multiple iconographic representations of cattle are probably a reflection of their greater productivity (milk, meat, and traction) in comparison to other domesticates (Marciniak 2005; Le Quellec 2011). Cattle are also relatively slow-growing, requiring investment in terms of fodder, adequate access to water and housing in order to reach adulthood and maximise this productivity (Bogucki 1993; Russell 1998; Gillis et al. 2017). The number of societies, past and present, for whom cattle are central to wealth and status reminds us that any discussions of productivity must also","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"27 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47222430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.2019534
S. D’Abramo, Virginia A. Cobos, S. Perez, V. Bernal
{"title":"Summer Camps Location and Distribution of Archaeological Sites in North Neuquén (Northwest Patagonia)","authors":"S. D’Abramo, Virginia A. Cobos, S. Perez, V. Bernal","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.2019534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.2019534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45183575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.2003582
J. Capriles, Melanie J. Miller, J. R. Fox, D. Browman, Cassady Yoder Urista
{"title":"Evaluating Dietary Diversity among Andean Central Altiplano Early Camelid Pastoralists Using Stable Isotope Analysis","authors":"J. Capriles, Melanie J. Miller, J. R. Fox, D. Browman, Cassady Yoder Urista","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.2003582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.2003582","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49475787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-22DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.2003583
Jingping An, Wiebke Kirleis, G. Jin
{"title":"Understanding the Collapse of the Longshan Culture (4400-3800 BP) and the 4.2 ka Event in the Haidai Region of China – from an Agricultural Perspective","authors":"Jingping An, Wiebke Kirleis, G. Jin","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.2003583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.2003583","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49518921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-03DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1995260
Tatiana Nomokonova, R. Losey, P. Kosintsev, A. V. Plekhanov
{"title":"Reindeer Demographics at Iarte VI, Iamal Peninsula, Arctic Siberia","authors":"Tatiana Nomokonova, R. Losey, P. Kosintsev, A. V. Plekhanov","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.1995260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1995260","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42086153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-27DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1989977
K. Deckers, Federico Polisca, S. Riehl, Michelle W. de Gruchy, D. Lawrence
{"title":"Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements","authors":"K. Deckers, Federico Polisca, S. Riehl, Michelle W. de Gruchy, D. Lawrence","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.1989977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1989977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42983333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-27DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1993693
Gene T. Shev, Zara Ali, Juan N. Almonte Milán, S. Casale, Igor Djakovic, C. Hofman
ABSTRACT This study analyses zooarchaeological material recovered from the late precolumbian site of El Flaco (AD 990–1450), northern Dominican Republic. The faunal assemblage from this inland settlement demonstrates terrestrially focused modes of faunal exploitation but with some resources obtained from coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, sandy-bottom, and reefs, which are located approximately 20 km to the northwest. This study establishes last occurrence dates for extinct taxa; examines the spatial distribution of fauna; explores modes of food procurement; and the effects of agricultural activities on local fauna by investigating animal remains from three excavation units. A diachronic study of animal remains from one artificial mound demonstrates changing patterns in resource exploitation, such as an increasing consumption of land crab over a roughly 100-year period. This study follows previous research that examined the isotope ecology of endemic species from El Flaco that indicates some hutias were possibly scavenging or being fed cultivated plants. Palaeoenvironmental data suggest that Indigenous landscape transformations led to the creation of mosaic environments, which may have attracted and supported certain species, implying that the inhabitants of El Flaco likely did not have to venture far to trap or hunt many of the animals upon which they relied.
{"title":"Coastal-Hinterland Exchange and Garden Hunting Practices Prior to the European Invasion of Hispaniola","authors":"Gene T. Shev, Zara Ali, Juan N. Almonte Milán, S. Casale, Igor Djakovic, C. Hofman","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.1993693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1993693","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study analyses zooarchaeological material recovered from the late precolumbian site of El Flaco (AD 990–1450), northern Dominican Republic. The faunal assemblage from this inland settlement demonstrates terrestrially focused modes of faunal exploitation but with some resources obtained from coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, sandy-bottom, and reefs, which are located approximately 20 km to the northwest. This study establishes last occurrence dates for extinct taxa; examines the spatial distribution of fauna; explores modes of food procurement; and the effects of agricultural activities on local fauna by investigating animal remains from three excavation units. A diachronic study of animal remains from one artificial mound demonstrates changing patterns in resource exploitation, such as an increasing consumption of land crab over a roughly 100-year period. This study follows previous research that examined the isotope ecology of endemic species from El Flaco that indicates some hutias were possibly scavenging or being fed cultivated plants. Palaeoenvironmental data suggest that Indigenous landscape transformations led to the creation of mosaic environments, which may have attracted and supported certain species, implying that the inhabitants of El Flaco likely did not have to venture far to trap or hunt many of the animals upon which they relied.","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"28 1","pages":"421 - 442"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49247264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-06DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1985918
Michaela Ptáková, P. Šída, Václav Vondrovský, P. Pokorný
ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farmers and prehistoric herders using a regional-scale analysis of two agriculturally peripheral areas in Bohemia (Czech Republic). Both regions represent ecologically diverse islands used by hunter-gatherer communities for their rich natural resources and set within uniform loess basins colonised by the first LBK farmers. Based on settlement dynamics, radiocarbon dating, artefactual and rich palaeoecological evidence, this thematic review attempts to illustrate how the use of well-defined spatiotemporal scales can affect our perception of the Mesolithic/Neolithic interface. This approach shows that hunter-gathering traditions persisted in the two model areas long enough to allow interaction with incoming farmers and thus that in particular landscapes the transition might have been a slow and gradual process during which the subsistence categories of hunter-gatherers, herders, and farmers overlapped and interacted. Such interactions could have included shared distribution networks of some raw materials and the contemporaneous exploitation by herders and hunter-gatherers of diverse territories rich in natural resources.
{"title":"Islands of Difference: An Ecologically Explicit Model of Central European Neolithisation","authors":"Michaela Ptáková, P. Šída, Václav Vondrovský, P. Pokorný","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.1985918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1985918","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farmers and prehistoric herders using a regional-scale analysis of two agriculturally peripheral areas in Bohemia (Czech Republic). Both regions represent ecologically diverse islands used by hunter-gatherer communities for their rich natural resources and set within uniform loess basins colonised by the first LBK farmers. Based on settlement dynamics, radiocarbon dating, artefactual and rich palaeoecological evidence, this thematic review attempts to illustrate how the use of well-defined spatiotemporal scales can affect our perception of the Mesolithic/Neolithic interface. This approach shows that hunter-gathering traditions persisted in the two model areas long enough to allow interaction with incoming farmers and thus that in particular landscapes the transition might have been a slow and gradual process during which the subsistence categories of hunter-gatherers, herders, and farmers overlapped and interacted. Such interactions could have included shared distribution networks of some raw materials and the contemporaneous exploitation by herders and hunter-gatherers of diverse territories rich in natural resources.","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"28 1","pages":"124 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46359125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1979385
Kelly Reed, Andreja Kudelić, S. Essert, Laura Polonijo, Snježana Vrdoljak
Bronze Age agriculture in Europe is marked by the adoption of new crops, such as broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum), broad bean (Vicia faba) and gold-of-pleasure (Camelina sativa). Yet, at a regi...
{"title":"House of Plenty: Reassessing Food and Farming in Late Bronze Age Croatia","authors":"Kelly Reed, Andreja Kudelić, S. Essert, Laura Polonijo, Snježana Vrdoljak","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2021.1979385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1979385","url":null,"abstract":"Bronze Age agriculture in Europe is marked by the adoption of new crops, such as broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum), broad bean (Vicia faba) and gold-of-pleasure (Camelina sativa). Yet, at a regi...","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48526058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：