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DOI10.1016/j.jaa.2016.08.007
Archaeological discontinuities in the southern hemisphere: A working agenda
Barberena, Ramiro1; McDonald, Jo2; Mitchell, Peter J.3,4; Veth, Peter5
通讯作者Barberena, Ramiro
来源期刊JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN0278-4165
EISSN1090-2686
出版年2017
卷号46页码:1-11
英文摘要

This introductory overview presents the frame of research and general goals of the special volume "Archaeological Discontinuities: Comparative Frameworks for the southern hemisphere". We begin by deconstructing archaeological discontinuities in terms of time and space in order to assess what sort of past phenomena are we dealing with when assessing discontinuities in different scales. It is one of our main contentions that we need theory and data connecting discontinuities as recorded on different analytical scales, thereby contributing to evaluate often-undescribed mechanisms that produce archaeological discontinuities. On this basis, we face the key task of deconstructing archaeological discontinuities from ’top to bottom’, moving from the averaged material record that is visible in archaeological scale toward the short-term human decisions and interactions that, when occurring cumulatively, produce those discontinuities. Nevertheless, while an understanding of the short-term behavioral mechanisms and social agency behind discontinuities is necessary, it is certainly not sufficient for building a frame in which to make sense of the long-term record.


Archaeological discontinuities recorded at different spatial scales require different explanatory mechanisms that can be connected hierarchically. The most productive analytical take here would be to move from the bottom to the top, building from the site or local scales to the regional and continental levels. This strategy provides a solid frame for assessing the genesis of discontinuities at different scales by disentangling the incidence of sampling deficiencies in the field, the selection of samples for chronometric dating, taphonomic biases, the reorganization of mobility and technology, local and regional abandonments, and actual demographic changes.


We finish by selecting a few issues that we consider worthy of systematic comparative attention in the years to come. These issues impinge on different levels of theory and methods and can only be pursued with an interdisciplinary focus that encompasses not only archaeology but also ethnography, genetics, linguistics, paleoclimatology and paleoecology. We are convinced that there is much to learn from a comparative perspective in terms of structural similitudes in historical processes across regions and continents. The conceptual structure of a number of debates from South America, Africa, and Australia on is remarkably similar, notwithstanding important differences in terms of chronology and tempo. We look forward to international joint endeavors such as this one that help to formalize questions and data collecting strategies for the southern drylands and beyond. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


英文关键词Archaeological discontinuities Southern hemisphere Scales of analysis Comparative archaeology Human demography
类型Article
语种英语
国家Argentina ; Australia ; England ; South Africa
收录类别SSCI ; AHCI
WOS记录号WOS:000403523900001
WOS关键词SUMMED PROBABILITY-DISTRIBUTION ; HUNTER-GATHERERS ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; NEOLITHIC POPULATION ; SOCIAL COMPLEXITY ; ATACAMA DESERT ; STONE-AGE ; ROCK ART ; AFRICA ; MIDDLE
WOS类目Anthropology ; Archaeology
WOS研究方向Anthropology ; Archaeology
来源机构University of Oxford ; University of Western Australia
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/200016
作者单位1.Univ Nacl Cuyo, CONICET, Lab Paleocol Humana, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Padre Jorge Contreras 1300, RA-5500 Mendoza, Mendoza Provinc, Argentina;
2.Univ Western Australia, Ctr Rock Art Res & Management, Perth, WA, Australia;
3.Univ Oxford, Sch Archaeol, St Hughs Coll, Oxford OX2 6LE, England;
4.Univ Witwatersrand, GAES, PO Wits, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa;
5.Univ Western Australia, Sch Social Sci, M257, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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Barberena, Ramiro,McDonald, Jo,Mitchell, Peter J.,et al. Archaeological discontinuities in the southern hemisphere: A working agenda[J]. University of Oxford, University of Western Australia,2017,46:1-11.
APA Barberena, Ramiro,McDonald, Jo,Mitchell, Peter J.,&Veth, Peter.(2017).Archaeological discontinuities in the southern hemisphere: A working agenda.JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY,46,1-11.
MLA Barberena, Ramiro,et al."Archaeological discontinuities in the southern hemisphere: A working agenda".JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 46(2017):1-11.
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