动物考古学与复杂社会——动物群分析在贸易、社会地位和族属研究中的某些应用

自20世纪60年代后期以来,动物考古学成为考古学研究中发展最为迅速的分支学科之一,利用动物骨骼遗存研究复杂社会显示出动物考古学的特殊魅力。本文利用旧大陆西部和新大陆的动物考古学研究案例,首先讨论了动物和动物产品在贸易和交换中的作用,接下来又探讨了动物遗存的差异在多大程度上可以用来重建社会不平等,最后,则批判地考察了动物遗存在辨认史前和历史时代早期族群差异方面的作用。不仅如此,作者还讨论了从事复杂社会研究的动物考古学家所使用的方法,以及这些方法的局限性。作者认为,动物群分析可以作为研究复杂社会经济基础的一个有效方法。动物考古学除了为饮食和生存活动提供有价值的信息之外,动物骨骼分析还可以用于重建过去的交换系统,辨识人们的社会地位和族属。但要做到这一点,动物考古学家必须把分析建立在大量精心收集且出自合适的考古学遗迹单位的动物遗存之上。这意味着动物考古学家必须首先是考古学家,他们应当少花一些时间担心最小个体数、可鉴定标本数以及其他计算生物分类单元丰度的方式的优劣上,而应把更多的时间放在考虑怎样能把动物资料与其他考古学和历史学证据整合起来。因为只有把动物群资料和其他证据结合起来,我们才能理解复杂社会的经济基础。     

Dis-placed voices: sense of place and place-identity on the Sunshine Coast

The geographical literature on place interrogates, amongst other notions, sense of place, place identity, and their connections or disruptions. Although notions of place are multiple and very fluid, place transformation in rural and regional areas may be more rapid than the changing understandings of place held by residents. This research examines notions of place held by residents on the Sunshine Coast of Australia, one of the fastest growing ‘sea change’ regions in the nation. It presents a reading of empirical material that suggests sense of place and place-identity cannot be easily equated in the region. Sense of place was more important to rural and long-term residents than was the place-identity. Landscape change in the region is narrated, and images of place-identity interpreted, to suggest that place-identity has been created and imposed by the globalising forces of development, rather than emanating from many resident's perspectives. Those local voices have been, and continue to be, successively displaced and disrupted. Thus discursive power in various ways shapes and is shaped by dominant place-identity in the region, and some voices are blocked by the discourses of urbanisation. The unequal geographies of power shaping the regional landscape need to be acknowledged within place transformation processes. These geographies of power suggest that sense of place can be thought of as a ‘view from the bottom’, while place-identity primarily functions as a ‘view from the top’.     

Ancient DNA for the Archaeologist: The Future of African Research

Ancient DNA analyses are increasingly popular in archaeology. With the exception of Egypt, the African continent has been grossly understudied using these techniques. We review the state of ancient DNA research on Africa, ancient DNA analysis techniques, and common pitfalls in these studies. We provide recommendations for archaeologists interested in collecting and interpreting ancient DNA data.     

Liberal dilemmas,conservative problems: F.A. Hayek and ideological tension

The late Austrian philosopher and economist Friedrich von Hayek is well‐known for expounding a variety of liberalism which is informed by conservative insights. The tensions implicit in this ideological fusion are many, and critics disagree on the extent to which his ‘conservative‐liberal’ synthesis is a viable one. With reference to the tension which exists within, as well as between, the liberal and conservative ideologies, this paper argues that the importance of Hayek's synthesis is not its internal coherence (to the extent that this can be ascertained). Rather, the major contribution of his synthesis resides in its illumination of the tensions exemplified by both the ideologies he attempted to combine.     

Conservative intellectuals and feminism: The Australian case

This article discusses conservative intellectual attitudes to feminism, with reference to the journal Quadrant. It is argued that a conspicuous failure to seriously address the issues raised by feminist writers is both short‐sighted and self‐defeating, since such issues are not as compartmentalized as Australian conservative intellectuals appear to think. Contrasting attitudes to feminism are explored with reference to the respective approaches of conservative writers, John Carroll and Ronald Conway. While this comparison reveals that it is possible for conservatism and feminism to co‐exist, it is shown that Conway is almost alone among Quadrant intellectuals in appreciating this.     

Book reviews

Women's Lives and Public Policy: the international experience. M. Turshen & B. Holcomb (Eds), 1993. Westport, CT, Praeger. xix + 217 pp. ISBN 0–275–94523–5 paperback, 0–313–27354–5 hardback.

Decolonizing Feminisms: race, gender and empire‐building. Laura E. Donaldson, 1992. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.

African Encounters with Domesticity. K. T. Hansen (Ed.), 1992. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press. 315 pp., $42.00 hardback, $16.00 paperback. ISBN 0–8135–1803–2 hardback, 0–8135–1804–0 paperback.

Women and the Environment: a reader. S. Sontheimer (Ed.), 1991. New York, Monthly Review Press. 205 pp., $13.00 paperback. ISBN 0 85345–835 9.

Defining Females. S. Ardener (Ed.), 1993. Oxford, Berg. 216 pp., £10.95/$17.95 paperback.

Modernity and Identity. S. Lash & J. Friedman (Eds), 1992. Oxford, UK and Cambridge, MA, USA, Blackwell. 379 pp., £15.99/$19.95 paperback. ISBN 0–631–17586–5.     

A Note on the Role of Dogs in Anglo‐Saxon Society: Evidence from East Anglia

This paper examines the roles that dogs played in Anglo‐Saxon (420–1066 CE) society in East Anglia, drawing on data from the Late Roman site of Icklingham and the Anglo‐Saxon sites of West Stow, Brandon and Ipswich in Suffolk, England. The archaeological context of these dog finds is described, along with zooarchaeological data on dog sizes, ages at death and paleopathology. The data indicate that Early and Middle Anglo‐Saxon dogs are less varied than Late Roman dogs. Ageing and paleopathological data indicate that the West Stow dogs, in particular, had hard lives. Early and Middle Saxon dogs from East Anglia were relatively large, with an estimated withers height of about 60 cm. They may have served as guard dogs and herding dogs. The West Stow dogs may also have been involved in hunting and fighting. Late Saxon dogs from Ipswich reveal an increasing morphological diversity, suggesting that they played multiple roles in Late Anglo‐Saxon urban sites. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.