Prometheus Unbound: Southern Caucasia in Prehistory

This paper examines the intellectual traditions and recent advances in the archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages of the South Caucasus. The first goal of the paper is to provide an account of the scholarly traditions that have oriented research in the region since the mid-nineteenth century. This discussion provides a detailed case study of an archaeological tradition that arose within the context of Russian and Soviet research—traditions still poorly understood within Western archaeology. Yet archaeology in the South Caucasus was strongly influenced by international research in neighboring southwest Asia, and thus the region’s intellectual currents often diverged from the debates and priorities that predominated in Moscow. The second goal of this paper is to outline the primary issues that orient contemporary work in the region from the Neolithic through the Urartian period. My interest here is both didactic and prognostic. While I am concerned to fairly represent the primary foci of contemporary regional scholarship, I also make an argument for a deeper investigation of the constitution of social life. Such studies are critical to the advancement of archaeology in the South Caucasus over the coming decade.     

Reconstructing Movement in Prehistory

Movement is a universal part of human life. However, it normally leaves no material trace, so movements made in the past are difficult to investigate. Refitting artifacts across unusually long distances provides a robust method of reconstructing individual acts of movement. When there are multiple individual movements, it is possible to reconstruct patterns of movement, and to differentiate between different types of movement made for different purposes, even in prehistory.     

史前碎物葬

本文将我国史前时期的碎物葬划分为用碎物陪葬、殓葬及祭奠三大类型 ,并分别用考古发现较为详尽地举例说明。在文后又对一些问题作了初步的探讨 ,如认为碎物葬中碎物的意图应是避邪和为死者享用两者兼而有之 ;碎物葬是怎样产生和发展的 ;碎物葬的时空分布规律等。     

Ivory Coast Prehistory: recent developments

Ten years after Raymond Mauny's overview of Ivory Coast archaeology, Robert Chenorkian summarizes and illustrates recent developments in Ivoirian prehistory: palaeolithic industries discovered in stratigraphy, epipalaeolithic artefacts with¹⁴C dating, neolithic industries, and new data on shell middens. A table of radiocarbon dates resulting from the last ten years of research is included.     

Later Prehistory in South-East Scotland: A Critical Review

This paper reviews the progress of research over the past twenty years, with particular reference to enclosed and unenclosed settlement, agricultural patterns, domestic structural types and burial practices of the Iron Age in the south-eastern Borders. The concept of a 'trend towards enclosure' in the first millennium BC is reviewed and rejected, not least on the grounds of evidence from excavation for the dating sequences of major enclosed sites. In consequence a new overview of the later prehistoric settlement of the region is now possible, consistent with the accumulating archaeological and environmental data.     

Recent Research in Puebla Prehistory

This review of recent research in the state of Puebla, Mexico, focuses on six issues: (1) reevaluations of the Tehuacan Valley Archaic; (2) rural household archaeology at Tetimpa; (3) the impact of Popocatépetls eruptions; (4) the city of Cholula; (5) the Nahua-Otomangue frontier; and (6) new perspectives on the Mixteca-Puebla art style. Not only do these topics illustrate the scope of archaeological work, but they can be linked to broader anthropological themes like the origins and spread of agriculture, relationships between rural populations and emergent cities, the environmental, social, and cultural impact of natural disasters, the operation of geographical frontiers and ethnic interfaces, the construction of cultural landscapes, and the connections between political organization and art style. Pueblas location along numerous environmental and cultural divides makes it an excellent laboratory for the study of human interaction across diverse kinds of frontiers.     

Reclaiming the Ancestors: Decolonizing a Taken Prehistory of the Far Northeast

Author Frederick Wiseman, a scholar of Abenaki descent withtraining and experience in archaeology, has created a uniquework that combines scientific data from archaeological siteswith Wabanaki knowledge of history. The Wabanakis pass thisknowledge down orally, creating a traditional oral history oftheir society. Wiseman defines the region or culture area ofhis study as "Wabanakik" including the Abenaki of Vermont, NewHampshire and Maine, and Penobscots, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets,and Micmacs of Maine and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Wisemandescribes Wabanaki