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William H. Walker Michael Brian Schiffer 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2006,13(2):67-88
This paper explores the materiality of social power relationally through study of social interactions with artifacts. Specifically, it is argued that acquisition of an artifact instantiates social power by imposing interactions on groups taking part in that artifact's life-history activities. We introduce the “performance-preference matrix,” an analytic tool for systematically studying the effects of such acquisition events on activity groups. The use of the performance-preference matrix is illustrated through an example: the acquisition of electric-arc lights for lighthouses in the 19th century. Suggestions are offered for analyzing culture-contact situations and for handling singularized artifacts such as heirlooms and monuments.
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William H. WalkerEmail: |
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The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Childhood and Social Age: Problems and Prospects 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Recently, the value of the study of children and childhood from archaeological contexts has become more recognized. Childhood
is both a biological and a social phenomenon. However, because of specialization in research fields within anthropology, subadults
from the archaeological record are usually studied from the biological perspective (bioarchaeology) or, more predominantly,
the social perspective (social archaeology), with little research that incorporates both approaches. These polarized approaches
to childhood and age highlight the dualistic way in which “biological” and “social” aspects of the body are viewed. Some recent
literature criticizes bioarchaeological approaches, and calls for the incorporation of childhood social theory, including
social age categories, into subadult health analysis. However, few studies have explicitly addressed the practicalities or
theoretical issues that need to be considered when attempting this. This paper critically examines these issues, including
terminology used for defining subadulthood and age divisions within it, and approaches to identify “social age” in past populations.
The important contribution that bioarchaeology can make to the study of social aspects of childhood is outlined. Recent theoretical
approaches for understanding the body offer exciting opportunities to incorporate skeletal remains into research, and develop
a more biologically and socially integrated understanding of childhood and age.
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Nancy TaylesEmail: |
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Joan M. Gero 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2007,14(3):311-327
In this paper I argue that the practice of archaeology over-emphasizes and over-rewards unambiguous certainty in our interpretations,
even though our conclusions are usually drawn from necessarily partial, underdetermined and complex evidence. I argue that
full or partial erasure of ambiguity from our data and from our interpretive assertions does not serve the long-term interests
of the discipline; that a feminist practice aimed at more nuanced understandings of the past and open to more subtle, multivalenced
notions of reality, must accept ambiguity as a central feature of archaeological interpretation. After I review familiar strategies
that are used to obscure troubling areas of uncertainty in archaeology, I urge feminist practice to resist employing these
“mechanisms of closure” in our work. It is only by openly recognizing and preserving the ambiguity that resides in messy data
arrangements today that we stand any hope of fuller and richer understandings in the future.
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Joan M. GeroEmail: |
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Nan A. Rothschild 《International Journal of Historical Archaeology》2006,10(1):72-107
A comparison of two seventeenth-century colonial encounters in North America, examining the Pueblo–Spanish interaction in New Mexico and the Mohawk–Dutch situation in New York. I focus on material culture flows, the role of women, forms of labor that were extracted in each setting and how each of these contributed to power relations and identity construction.
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Nan A. RothschildEmail: |
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Monica L. Smith 《Journal of Archaeological Research》2006,14(2):97-142
Urbanism in the Indian subcontinent occurred in three distinct time periods in which cultural cohesion over large regions is archaeologically demonstrated through the architecture and artifacts of social, ritual, and economic activity. In the Indus (2500–1900 B.C.) and Early Historic (3rd century B.C. to 4th century A.D.) periods, cities were not necessarily tied to political territories or guided by strong political leaders, but by the Medieval period (after the 9th century A.D.), urban zones were the base for political growth, warfare, and aggrandizement. The comparison of these three eras is undertaken within a framework for defining cities that balances quantitative criteria such as population size and areal extent with two types of qualitative criteria: internal specialization on the basis of materials found within archaeological sites, and external specialization on the basis of data recovered through regional analysis. Cities from the three eras also are evaluated from the perspective of the ordinary inhabitant through the examination of the social, religious, and economic factors that prompted and rewarded urban residence. While the Indus and Early Historic cities were attractive because of the networks of opportunity found there, Medieval cities additionally benefitted from a “push” factor as ordinary inhabitants allied themselves to urban areas in times of political stress and uncertainty.
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Monica L. SmithEmail: |
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Matthew Harpster 《Journal of Maritime Archaeology》2008,3(1):3-13
Between 1967 and 1974, the island of Cyprus was a centre of maritime archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean. Individuals
such as Michael and Susan Katzev, George Bass, Jeremy Green and Richard Steffy were living on and visiting the island, and
testing and developing methods still common in the discipline. The hostilities on Cyprus in the summer of 1974 and the implementation
of international regulations limiting archaeological work in the northern portion of the island, however, had repercussions
still evident today. This article summarizes past maritime archaeological work along the northern coastline, addresses the
regulations limiting archaeological activity in the region and discusses a new training program licensed by the Nautical Archaeology
Society aiding in the protection of the island’s maritime heritage representing approximately 10,000 years of activity.
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Matthew HarpsterEmail: |
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Paul Roscoe 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2009,16(2):69-116
Small-scale society furnishes the bread and butter of archeological research. Yet our understanding of what these communities
did and how they achieved their purpose is still rudimentary. Using the ethnography of contact-era New Guinea, this paper
presents a “social signaling” model of small-scale social systems that archeologists may find useful for contextualizing and
interpreting the material record of these societies. It proposes that the organization of small-scale society was oriented,
among other goals, towards biological and social reproduction, subsistence optimization, and military defense. To advance
these multiple collective interests, however, these communities had to deal with three problems: an optimality problem, a
conflict-of-interest problem, and a free-rider problem. The optimality problem was solved with a modular (or segmented) social
structure, the conflict-of-interest problem by a process of social signaling, and these two solutions together operated to
resolve the free-rider problems they created. In addition to explaining the structure and function of small-scale societies,
the model provides a unified framework that can account for the ceremonial behaviors, core cultural conceptions, and leadership
forms that these societies generated.
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Paul RoscoeEmail: |
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How to Make an Unfired Clay Cooking Pot: Understanding the Technological Choices Made by Arctic Potters 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Karen G. Harry Lisa Frink Brendan O’Toole Andreas Charest 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2009,16(1):33-50
Between about 500 a.d. and the late nineteenth century, clay cooking pots associated with the Thule culture were produced in the Arctic region.
Ethnographic and archaeological records indicate that these vessels were typically underfired (often even unfired), highly
porous, and easily broken. Despite these characteristics, the evidence indicates that they were used to heat water over open
fires. In this paper, we examine how Arctic potters were able to produce unsintered vessels capable of holding liquids without
disintegrating. We conclude that the application of seal oil and seal blood to the pot’s surface was the key to their success.
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Karen G. HarryEmail: |
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Ericka Engelstad 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2007,14(3):217-234
Numerous publications on gender archaeology present case studies that incorporate gender in their analyses, but make little
use of feminist theory and critique, and are ambivalent or negative to feminism. Aspects of Norwegian, British and American
gender archaeology are discussed in relation to a desire for the ‘mainstream.’ The reasons for, and consequences of, a lack
of feminist theorizing and engagement are related to Donna Haraway’s concept of situated knowledges.
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Ericka EngelstadEmail: |
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This paper draws on experience gained by Bournemouth University to consider undergraduate education in maritime archaeology.
At Bournemouth maritime archaeology is taught firmly in the context of a broader archaeological education. Archaeological
programmes vary with the institutions within which they are taught, each programme thus having an individual character that
separates it from that of other institutions and further enriches the subject through the breadth of this education. At Bournemouth
the value of teaching archaeology with a high component of practical experience has been long understood. This does not mean
that archaeology is taught as a purely practical subject but as one within which experience in the field is seen as a worthwhile
focus. Bournemouth’s programme therefore recognises the value of field research projects as learning environments for undergraduates
studying maritime archaeology. The programme is subject to a number of constraints, notably the size of the archaeological
employment market, levels of pay within that market, questions of ongoing professional development after graduation, and the
requirements of other employment markets into which archaeological graduates enter. This paper argues that research project-based
learning, and in particular, involvement with amateur groups, provides a way to balance these constraints and supports development
of both technical and transferable ‘soft’ skills.
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Paola PalmaEmail: |
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This paper explores the functioning of coastal societies against the background of the changing role of coastal ‘contact zones’ on both sides of the Channel and southern North Sea region, between AD 600 and 1100. In so doing, it reassesses aspects of the generalising frameworks of interpretation applied over the past quarter of a century in favour of a more contextual approach, enabled by long known (although sometimes forgotten) and recent archaeological discoveries, together with new geological research. Regional and local complexity is a recurrent feature. A revolutionary increase in our awareness of the extent to which marginal coastal landscapes were occupied and exploited is matched by a commensurate increase in our knowledge of the number and complexity of settlements and seasonally used sites, involved in maritime exchange networks. Ultimately, this contribution confronts the dynamism of regional coastal societies with the wider socio-political structures in which they were incorporated.
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Dries TysEmail: |
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Kathryn J. Weedman 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2006,13(3):188-237
The significance of flaked stone tool variation has been a source of great archaeological debate for over 100 years. Even though evidence for stone tool hafting exists as far back as the Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age, there is a dearth of information concerning how hafting affects stone tool technology. This ethnoarchaeological study of hafted stone scrapers among the Gamo of southern Ethiopia examines why a single cultural group utilizes two different hafts, which generate different lithic morphologies, technologies, and spatial distributions. The relationships between history, environment, and social group membership are explored to demonstrate how these associations create variation in technological practices.
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Kathryn J. WeedmanEmail: |
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Robert M. Rosenswig 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2009,16(1):1-32
Formation processes are all too infrequently addressed by archaeologists excavating in Mesoamerica. This paper examines refuse
disposal patterns from the site of Cuauhtémoc on the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, to provide insight into how the site
formed and how artifacts accumulated. This analysis uses materials dating between 1600–800 BCE which encompass the centuries
before, during and after the late Early Formative or Early Olmec period (i.e., 1250–900 BCE). First, I employ sherds and daub
from shared open-air middens and trash-filled pits to explore trash deposit formation through the 800 years that the site
was occupied. Next, I use these same classes of data to make synchronic comparisons between five different depositional contexts
dating to the Conchas phase (900–800 BCE). For all phases, these analyses demonstrate that pit features received more debris
than open-air middens and that material in the latter contexts were more broken up. Further, the low density of daub from
late Early Formative period contexts suggests that distinctive architectural customs may have been practised during this time.
Conchas phase refuse indicates that waste disposal locations physically separated an elite residential zone from the rest
of society and that elite contexts were more intensively used. Accounting for the formation of archaeological deposits allows
for more nuanced interpretations of this early Mesoamerican village.
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Robert M. RosenswigEmail: |
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Julie Satchell 《Journal of Maritime Archaeology》2008,3(2):103-118
This paper examines the work of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology (HWTMA) in developing informal education
approaches and initiatives. It introduces the aims and ethos of the HWTMA which focuses on embedding education and learning
into all aspects of its work, before exploring ways in which its fieldwork and research programme are utilised to help deliver
a range of educational opportunities to a diverse range of groups and individuals. There is a review of the possibilities
for skill development through practical involvement which is illustrated with case study examples, followed by discussion
of broader approaches, including publications, talks and exhibits. This review underpins discussion of a recent project ‘Maritime
Archaeology Access and Learning Workshops’ which aimed to ‘educate the educators’, and has demonstrated the potential for
this approach to make a significant contribution to increasing the profile of maritime archaeology within informal learning
frameworks. The paper concludes by reviewing the experience of these regionally-based initiatives in relation to the expansion
of maritime archaeology within the UK and suggests ways that lessons learned could be drawn upon in the development of emerging
national approaches.
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Julie SatchellEmail: URL: www.hwtma.org.uk |
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R. Alexander Bentley 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2006,13(3):135-187
Strontium isotope analysis of archaeological skeletons has provided useful and exciting results in archaeology in the last 20 years, particularly by characterizing past human migration and mobility. This review covers the biogeochemical background, including the origin of strontium isotope compositions in rocks, weathering and hydrologic cycles that transport strontium, and biopurification of strontium from to soils, to plants, to animals and finally into the human skeleton, which is subject to diagenesis after burial. Spatial heterogeneity and mixing relations must often be accounted for, rather than simply ``matching' a measured strontium isotope value to a presumed single-valued geologic source. The successes, limitations and future potential of the strontium isotope technique are illustrated through case studies from geochemistry, biogeochemistry, ecology and archaeology.
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R. Alexander BentleyEmail: |
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Anthony P. Andrews Rafael Burgos Villanueva Luis Millet Cámara 《International Journal of Historical Archaeology》2006,10(2):179-205
The emergence of capitalism in the peninsula of Yucatán is generally presented as a process resulting from the capitalization
of the agricultural sector and the export of products from its sugar, cotton, and henequén plantations in the nineteenth century.
In addition to these products, the peninsula also had a dynamic coastal economy in which the harvesting of salt and the extraction
of logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), played a major role and contributed to the flow of goods to international markets.
We present a preliminary archaeological survey and historical documentation of El Real de Salinas, a salt-producing port on
the north coast of Campeche, which was also involved in the extraction of other coastal products and closely linked to the
inland plantation system.
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Anthony P. AndrewsEmail: |
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Sam Willis 《Journal of Maritime Archaeology》2009,4(1):51-65
This article demonstrates the potential of an historical archaeology of smuggling and the value of an interdisciplinary approach
to the study of smuggling and its prevention. By exploring the previously unstudied history of the King’s Pipe in Falmouth,
a large chimney used for the destruction of tobacco, a rare survivor of many that once existed in England’s port cities, it
demonstrates that archaeology could transform our understanding of smuggling and its prevention, and more broadly the history
of crime and punishment in eighteenth century England.
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Sam WillisEmail: |
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The pace of archaeological research in Polynesia has intensified in recent years, resulting in more than 500 new literature
citations over the past decade. Fieldwork has continued in such previously well-studied archipelagoes as Tonga and Samoa in
Western Polynesia, and Hawai’i and New Zealand in Eastern Polynesia, and has expanded into previously neglected islands including
Niue, the Equatorial Islands, the Austral Islands, and Mangareva. The emergence of Ancestral Polynesian culture out of its
Eastern Lapita predecessor is increasingly well understood, and the chronology of Polynesian dispersal and expansion into
Eastern Polynesia has engaged several researchers. Aside from these fundamental issues of origins and chronology, major research
themes over the past decade include (1) defining the nature, extent, and timing of long-distance interaction spheres, particularly
in Eastern Polynesia; (2) the impacts of human colonization and settlement on island ecosystems; (3) variation in Polynesian
economic systems and their transformations over time; and (4) sociopolitical change, especially as viewed through the lens
of household or microscale archaeology. Also noteworthy is the rapidly evolving nature of interactions between archaeologists
and native communities, a critical aspect of archaeological practice in the region.
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Jennifer G. KahnEmail: |
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Fabíola Andréa Silva 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2008,15(3):217-265
This article presents some of the results of ethnoarchaeological research on ceramic technology I have conducted among the
Asurini do Xingu, an Amazonian indigenous population inhabiting a village in the margins of the Xingu River, Pará, Brazil. Based on collected data, presented throughout the article, I discuss the reasons behind the formal, quantitative,
spatial and relational variability of the Asurini ceramic vessels. This work will demonstrate that these distinct dimensions of variability are related to the potters’ technological
choices during the vessels’ production process, the ceramic teaching-learning structure, and the type, frequency, method and
context of use of the same vessels. I try to make clear the different practical and symbolic aspects that may influence the
production, use, reuse, storage and discard processes of the vessels. Furthermore, I compare the Asurini context with other ethnographic contexts and try to distinguish regularities that may serve as interpretative references
to the study of archaeological ceramic assemblages.
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Fabíola Andréa SilvaEmail: |