Archaeology of Mobility

ORGANIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY AT THE SANDERS SITE (45KT315) : ANALYSIS OF FORMED TOOLS FROM THE YAKIMA UPLANDS, WA by Patrick Garrison June, 2015 Analysis of the stone tools from the Sanders Site reveals trends in the development of stone tool technology and settlement patterns within the Yakima Uplands west of the Middle Columbia River. The Sanders Site collection provides exceptional opportunity for the study of stratified components that date between 9000 and 1000 years ago. Three components include evidence of stone tool manufacture using local bog stone along with refuse from seasonal hunting and plant gathering. Identification of projectile point morphologies support temporal assignments for each component, and reflect shifts from dart to bow hunting. Analysis of all the bifacial formed tools (raw material, use wear, and breakage patterns) demonstrate changes in technological organization related to transitions from foraging to collecting strategies by 3000 years ago. This change in technological organization is often explained as a shift from curated to expedient tool use. This change includes collecting and storing resources, residential base stations, increased artifact frequencies and percentages of manufacturing breaks, and use of local stone tool sources. These changes also resulted in a diminished utilization of exotic stone tool sources. Diagnostic projectile points correlate with established regional cultural chronologies. Small sample sizes from the early component and incomplete dating are limitations in this investigation. v

This paper presents the initial comparative findings of archaeometric analyses conducted for turquoise provenance determination involving samples from two distinct mining sources located in Chile and Argentina. It summarizes the outcomes of initial, collaborative, and interdisciplinary binational research combining the fields of Archaeology and Chemistry. The primary aim was to discern potential disparities between turquoise specimens originating from the Atacama Desert, in Chile, and the Puna of Salta region in Argentina, which could indicate variations between the South Andean mineral sources and the origin of artifactual evidence made of turquoise. The samples analyzed included mineral fragments pertaining to the prehistoric mining site Mina Las Turquesas in El Salvador (Atacama Region, Chile), a sample corresponding to one bead from a funerary good from San Pedro de Atacama (Antofagasta Region, Chile), and samples recovered from the prehistoric mine of Cueva Inca Viejo (Puna of Salta, Northwestern Argentina). For this purpose, a combination of analytical techniques including Raman Spectrometry, Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (SEM-EDS), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Triple Quadruple (ICP-MS-TQe) were employed. The results reveal variations in the composition of turquoise deposits from pre-Hispanic mines recorded in Chile and Argentina. The application of lead isotope method using ICP-MS-TQe complemented with other techniques offers promising data to further pursue this initial archaeometric research on turquoise circulation in the South Central Andes.

The recent archaeological reevaluation of the only known mummified remains from the Cementerio Las Turquesas site, links its bioanthropological and material contexts to the nearby residential and turquoise mining site of Mina Las Turquesas, recently excavated. Fieldwork there provided evidence of a long-span preinka settlement, and our appraisal reaffirms this on the basis of the recently undertaken cultural adscription of human remains, that has allowed us to posit that both sites were part of the economically and ritually significative Atacameño sphere of interaction, fundamentally within the Late Intermediate Period.

After a brief review of the history of the excavations and the geographical distribution of the inscriptions, the chapter addresses the impact of Cyrenaica’s entry into the Roman Empire through two aspects. First, the evolution of the urban setting of Cyrene, including the transfer of the civic centre to the eastern part of the site, is analysed. The changes in the rural landscape, characterized by an increase in settlements according to a stratified hierarchical organization, are then studied. The second part of the chapter is devoted to the originality of Imperial Cyrenaica. The creation of a new civic identity is based, on the one hand, on a revival of the Greek memory of Cyrenaica favoured by the entry into the Panhellenion, and on the other, on the vitality of a ‘Libyan’ culture that was renewed and deeply mixed with Greek and Roman cultures.

Migration as a part of human behaviour has once again been taken on among
archaeologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists. Although the social sciences
offer various narratives of migration, there is an opportunity for archaeology to enrich
its perspective by embracing more contemporary and expansive frameworks, moving
beyond traditional approaches. The interdisciplinary insights, drawing from fields such
as anthropology, sociology, and human geography, not only acknowledge the complexities
inherent in migration but also potentially can provide a more holistic and nuanced
exploration of migration dynamics. Moreover, this research argues that archaeological
interpretation of migration should take human agency into account and envisage the
migration as an action, not a mere reaction. Accordingly, this research seeks to expand
our understanding of migration beyond vulnerability and adaptation, by scrutinizing it
under the social resilience framework.

En este trabajo analizamos las diferentes formas de movilidad en los desiertos del Néguev y del Sinaí durante la prehistoria. Desde tiempos tempranos se observan en el registro arqueológico diversos testimonios que podrían indicar prácticas de subsistencia basadas en la movilidad estacional. Los investigadores sugieren que durante el Neolítico estas poblaciones se habrían dedicado a la cacería hasta que en el VII milenio a.C. incorporaron el pastoreo móvil. También se identificaron bienes alóctonos importados a través de intercambios. Nuestro objetivo consiste en analizar la movilidad de los habitantes del desierto durante la prehistoria en función de sus prácticas de subsistencia y de culto, así como de su participación en las interacciones interregionales y en la circulación de bienes. Para ese fin, luego de discutir diversas teorías en torno a los estudios de la movilidad, abordamos una serie de evidencias arqueológicas que indicarían prácticas de movilidad a partir de un enfoque internodal, así como los cambios que experimentaron estas prácticas desde el  Neolítico hasta el Bronce Antiguo para, finalmente, proponer algunas consideraciones con respecto a la relevancia del estudio de la movilidad en el pasado.

Lanceolate preform that is simply rounded at its base but sometimes bipointed; tends to be narrower across its midsection for its overall length than leaf points; generally longer and thicker than leaf points; along with Leppy Hills, displays greatest mean ML:MW index of all the Early and Middle Archaic points; chert and FGV the preferred raw materials; most common in the west along the eastern Sierra Front

En este artículo se presenta un estudio del Cementerio de los Abuelos de Caspana, desde el punto de vista de las características arquitectónicas y espaciales de sus tumbas, de los individuos enterrados en ellas y del ajuar funerario asociado a los mismos. Esto, dentro los marcos de una problemática mayor, orientada a profundizar en las estrategias de apropiación o control político y simbólico del Tawantinsuyu en la región del Loa Superior, aunque esta vez desde el ámbito funerario.

Based on lithic studies, it appears that the early inhabitants of the Great Basin were mobile, far-ranging, and possessed a flexible lithic toolkit. They left behind traces of ephemeral, often redundant, occupations across the landscape. While investigators have studied Paleoindian mobility patterns at large scales across the Great Basin, finegrained analyses are rarely applied to individual open-air sites. This study evaluates the hypothesis that the archaeological record at a single Paleoindian site located in Churchill County, western Nevada the Overlook Site (26CH3413) represents the remains of a residential base camp; a place from which local toolstone was procured to replace broken and expended tools fashioned on non-local material. To test this hypothesis several methods are employed including the analysis of: (1) site structure vis-à-vis spatial distribution of artifacts; (2) components of the lithic assemblage; and (3) geomorphic processes. These data suggest that cultural and geomorphic processes affect the horizontal distribution of artifacts, eliminating observable internal structure at the site. The assemblage at the site suggests that the manufacture of mid-stage bifaces on local material and discard of broken and expended tools was the dominant activity and that the site was repeatedly visited. To conclude, I consider the Overlook Site within the broader context of Paleoindian sites in the region.

Introducción al dossier integrado por nueve trabajos de especialistas en la historia de Oaxaca colonial. Los estudios comparten el enfoque analítico sobre los intercambios y las movilidades que tuvieron lugar en el territorio correspondiente a la jurisdicción colonial española del obispado de Oaxaca, hoy estado de Oaxaca.

question of to what extent members of the Athenian aristocracy, for lack of a better word, were involved in, or even responsible for, the intensified worship in the Athenian countryside, and how closely the ruling families in the city were connected to these sites. In the case of Athens and Attica, it is usually thought that the religious sites in the countryside were predominantly, or even exclusively, visited by local farmers and herders throughout the Geometric period, and that there were no close ties to ruling families in Athens. Indeed, as François de Polignac has argued, Athens represents an "anomaly" among the major ancient Greek cities exactly because of the absence of strong ties to an extra-urban sanctuary. 3 In this chapter, I am going to argue that the ruling families in Athens had a vested interest in rural shrines, and that we might see this as a sort of beginning of sacred travel in Athens and Attica. Through some selected case studies, I will first attempt to trace the travels of Athenian aristocrats to areas outside Attica in the Middle Geometric period, which seem closely connected to a network of guest-friendships (xenia). Then, having established that this was likely the case, I am going to argue that one of the primary religious concerns of the members of the ruling families in Athens in the Late Geometric period was the veneration of Zeus in his capacity as a weather deity and that they used the sanctuaries on Mount Hymettos and Mount Parnes, which are among the

A surprisingly high number of pottery production sites have been discovered in course of the Eastern Marmarica Survey in northwestern Egypt (2005-2011). 1 The finds at these workshops consist of Ptolemaic and Roman pottery, mostly locally produced amphorae. Types correspond to common amphora forms in Egypt, the amphores égyptiennes 2 and 3 (AE 2, AE 3) and their subtypes. However, the Eastern Marmarica had, until then, not yet been considered as a region of production and origin of pottery. For a better understanding of the characteristics of this region of ceramic production, a set of representative samples was chosen to be studied archaeometrically. The analyses were intended to improve our understanding of the geological and physio-geographical prerequisites for pottery production, and their impact on clay and fabrics as well as the possible correlation between types, fabrics, and the spatial distribution pattern of the resources in the Eastern Marmarica. * The article was written in 2013: the bibliography was only updated to a certain extent. 1. The survey covered an area-surveyed in various intensities-of 50 km east and west of Marsa Matruh (ancient Paraitonion) and reached 150 km to the south of the coast; cf. Rieger, forthcoming.

Anthropogenic and environmental processes present unique challenges for preserving cultural heritage in North Africa. Large parts of this region are characterised by unfavourable arid and semi-arid conditions and rapid changes to the landscapes caused by heightened regional development (e.g., urban expansion, road building, agricultural intensification, and socio-political conflicts). As a result, we are facing a fast-paced disappearance of heritage sites in regions that are still poorly understood. Following this, the utilisation of Earth observation data through aerial photographs and satellite imagery has emerged as an unmatched tool in the exploration of endangered archaeological heritage. Drawing on this context, this paper underscores the critical significance of incorporating digital research methods, such as remote sensing, GIS, or cartographic analysis, to ensure the evaluation and (digital) preservation of the historical sites along these vulnerable areas. Furthermore, our study seeks to provide new insights into data management and dissemination, fostering open research practices within North African archaeological research.

Este trabajo aborda la definición de una tradición estilística detectada al interior del conjunto de tabletas para
alucinógenos provenientes de distintos cementerios ubicados en los oasis de San Pedro de Atacama
(Antofagasta, Chile) y del noroeste de Argentina. Esta tarea no había sido emprendida previamente, a pesar de
que dichas tabletas conforman un grupo mayor de artefactos con características comunes resaltantes, lo cual
hace posible su discriminación tanto en términos formales como iconográficos, así como establecer diferencias
frente a otros estilos/tradiciones detectados en el conjunto de elementos que integran el equipo alucinógeno
registrado. Dicha tradición cuenta con dos estilos diferentes, cuyas respectivas iconografías resultan ajenas a lo
reconocido para el área Circumpuneña; por lo mismo, el análisis que se realiza da luces respecto del posible
lugar de origen de esta tradición en general, y de dichos estilos en particular, planteándolos además como
indicadores de los flujos del intercambio ritual macroregional. Junto con ello, mediante el análisis de los
contextos funerarios de algunas de estas tabletas se obtienen datos acerca de la ubicación temporal de los dos
estilos mencionados para esta tradición, y se discute la identidad social de los individuos que las poseyeron en
vida.

I did not want to submit this book to a publisher until R.M.A., his student, and the Great Synthesizer had read it over and given me their constructive criticism. I got a copy of the manuscript to them in time for the anthropology meetings in Mexico City. We met in the G.S.'s room in the Maria Isabel. I had not been so nervous since my thesis defense. The Great Synthesizer put me right at ease. "It's splendid," he said. "I've weighed the manuscript, and it must be a full 7 lb. There are only two or three spelling errors, and they're minor. You know, under different circumstances, it would have made an acceptable library dissertation." The Skeptical Graduate Student shuffled his feet [Flannery 1976; 369].

I did not want to submit this book to a publisher until R.M.A., his student, and the Great Synthesizer had read it over and given me their constructive criticism. I got a copy of the manuscript to them in time for the anthropology meetings in Mexico City. We met in the G.S.'s room in the Maria Isabel. I had not been so nervous since my thesis defense. The Great Synthesizer put me right at ease. "It's splendid," he said. "I've weighed the manuscript, and it must be a full 7 lb. There are only two or three spelling errors, and they're minor. You know, under different circumstances, it would have made an acceptable library dissertation." The Skeptical Graduate Student shuffled his feet [Flannery 1976; 369].

La materialidad del Inka Características espaciales y arquitectónicas Cerro Verde. Este se localiza sobre la explanada que se levanta en la confluencia de los ríos Curte y Caspana, cerca de 3 km. al norte del actual pueblo de Caspana y a una altura de casi 3200 m.s.n.m. El sitio se encuentra asociado a la explotación de cobre como lo sugiere el mismo nombre del cerro aledaño y las huellas de (1 lResultado del Proyecto Fondecyt 1970528-EI dominio lnka en las quebradas altas del Loa Superior ...

This dataset contains archaeological and heritage sites of the Marmarica region (NE-Libya/NW-Egypt), ranging from the Late Bronze to the Roman times. It has been developed in the framework of the PERAIA project, which aims to analyse the longterm history and interaction patterns along the harsh environments of northeastern Africa. The records contain accurate geographic location of sites, including place names, typology, chronology, and metadata of documented remains, along with information regarding the environmental and ecological context. Additionally, the dataset accounts for the specificities of the region's varying environmental conditions and their potential impact on archaeological heritage. All this information associated with each archaeological site was collected from published field data surveys, maps, archaeological reports, and it was subsequently cross-checked with historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery to detect, and to register known and unknown sites within the study area. Regarding the potential reuse of all this data, the dataset is deposited on the project website and linked to Zenodo.

Pastoral nomadic regional confederations, states, and empires have assumed a prominent place in the histories of the Eurasian steppe zone; however, anthropological theory devoted to understanding these political systems is still debated and relatively inchoate. A major question concerns the techniques of political integration that might have brought together dispersed mobile herders under the aegis of these complex, large-scale steppe polities. The first such polity in East Asia, the Xiongnu state (c. 250 BC–150 AD) of Mongolia, has been characterized as a polity built by mobile herders, but in fact the steppe populations of this period followed quite diverse lifeways. Most notably, the establishment of more permanent settlements for craft and agricultural production has complicated the typical narrative of the pastoral nomadic eastern steppe. This study considers ways to conceptualize these interesting variations in lifeway during the Xiongnu period and raises the question of how they might have promoted a novel Xiongnu political order. We analyze transformations within the Egiin Gol valley of northern Mongolia to better understand the organizational, productive, and settlement dynamics and present the first regional landscape perspective on the local transformations incurred by the creation of a Xiongnu agricultural hub. To understand these radical changes with respect to the long-term pastoral nomadic and hunting-gathering traditions of the valley’s inhabitants, Salzman’s flexibility-based model of multiresource pastoralism is of great use. Egiin Gol valley transformations indeed attest to a scale of political economy far beyond the bounds of this local area and suggest an innovative role for indigenous farming in Eurasian steppe polity building.

Within the framework of the project known as “Archaeological Map of
the Murghab Delta,” between 1995 and 1997, several short study and check campaigns and limited reconnaissance work were carried out in areas that had been less intensively visited in previous seasons.1 In 1971,2 as well as continuing the reconnaissance activity, stratigraphic test trenches were opened in the two sites of Adzhi Kui 1 (=406) and 9 (=409), located in the centre-west portion of the delta, at a distance of ca. 800 m apart (Fig. 1). Both sites had already been discovered during surveys carried out in the ’70s by Soviet archaeologists, together with other settlements in the area, including Adzhi Kui 8, which had been partially excavated by V. Sarianidi in 1978.3 The surface materials in the
two sites pointed to a differentiated chronology. Adzhi Kui 1 actually yielded Late Bronze Age materials, and Adzhi Kui 9 only Kelleli phase materials, i.e. dating to the Middle Bronze Age.
The test pits performed at the two sites were quite small, both consisting of a trench measuring 3 £ 3 m, both pointing North and in the vicinity of the highest points with respect to the alluvial soil (takyr). On the surface of both squares a systematic collection of the materials was made, while a selective collection was carried out on the entire surface of the two sites.

Pilgrimage sites offered valuable resources for spiritual connection and social identity formation. Therefore, pilgrimage can be understood as a practice that relied on the appropriation of cultural and social resources. What are the resources that pilgrims utilise during their pilgrimage journeys? How do pilgrimage routes serve as resources for connecting individuals, and promoting cultural exchange? Katerina Ragkou will discuss the significance of pilgrimage in Byzantine society and economy through the analysis of landscape, pilgrimage routes, and of the materiality of religious objects.

Imperial Valley College Museum 18 Call for Grey Literature Editors 19 Sermons and Sound Bites 19 UNR Courses 20 calendar 21. President's Message by Breck Parkman On March 26-29, the SCA will hold it's 31st Annual Meeting at the Red Lion Inn, in Rohnert Park. This year's conference promises to be a great event. Program Chair Barbara Voss and Local Arrangements Co-Chairs Glenn Caruso and Adrian Praetzellis have been doing a smashing job at organizing the meeting, and their hard work has really paid off. Thanks to Barb's good work, this year's presentations tthere are over 200) are exceptional, and will cover just about every aspect of California archaeology imaginable. Indeed, there will be something for everyone m Rohnert Park, even the public: a Public Session is planned for Wednes• day night, and promises to be one of the highlights of the conference. If any of you have friends or family in the San Francisco Bay area, you may SCA Newsletter 31 (1) ., L want to mention the Public Session to them. It'll be free, informative, and very entertaining. The staff at the Red Lion Inn have been most helpful as plans are made for the conference. I know that we will all enjoy our stay there As usual, the SCA has reserved a block of rooms for our members' use. I is very important that we book the minimum number of rooms that wt promised the Inn. Otherwise, it will cost our Society, and we can't really afford that. The more rooms that are booked at the Inn, the better for us, as it will affect our final bill from the Inn. Therefore, I ask that everyone consider staying at the Red Lion Inn. Adrian and Glenn rolled their sleeves up, got serious, and negotiated a great rate for us: $65 per room, regardless of whether you put one, two, three, or more people in it. So please, if at all possible, reserve your room at the Inn. Glenn and Adrian also worked hard to keep our other costs down at the conference. For example, a ticket to this year's Awards Dinner will cost only $30. That's a great deal, because not only will we be served a very nice meal, but there will also be some pretty neat entertainment. As the night's Master of Ceremonies, I promise a somewhat unique and certainly an enjoyable awards "ceremony." I don't think you want to miss it. Besides, David Hurst Thomas, perhaps the best-known archaeologist in the country, is our keynote speaker at the Awards Dinner, and I know you don't want to miss what he has to say. Admission to the Thursday night reception, our membership social, is very affordable, too. A ticket is only Sl l. For that, you get a pleasant, round-trip bus ride to beautiful and quaint Sebastopol, a great dinner, beer and wine, and a night of dancing. What a deal! Tom Origer and Jessica Anderson (and others at Origer & Associates) have done a tremendous job of organizing the reception, and I guarantee that you will enjoy it. Our Rohnert Park conference promises other attractions as well. For golfers, it'll be heaven, as the Inn is only a chip shot from the course. And for those of you who would like to see some of the local area, Janine Loyd and others have done a great job of organizing local tours to prehistoric and historic sites. There's even talk of a walking tour of Olompali State Historic Park, including a look at remnants of the so-called "hippie horizon" that is manifest there. Some of you may have seen yours truly on CNN International last year, pontificating on the archaeological significance of the 1960s and the cultural significance of the hippie movement, communes, protest, and the Grateful Dead. Of course, a tour of Olompali would also examine the remnants of the 2000-year-old Coast Miwok village (MRN-193). the 170-year-old Camillo Ynitia adobe, the !50-year-old Bear Flag Revolt battlefield, and the 120-year-old Burdell Formal Garden. all reasons this internationally-significant cultural site is listed on the National Register. So, given all these attractions and reasons to attend, I am certain that our Rohnert Park conference will be one of the best-attended ever, and one of the most memorable, too. On behalf of Adrian, Glenn, Barb, Tom, Janinc, Jessica, ~nd all the others working to make the upcoming conference one of the best ever, I invite all of you to join us in Rohnert Park. We look forward to seeing you there!

estudios atacameños Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas Estudios Atacameños hoy y los desafíos del futuro Estudios Atacameños today and the challenges of the future Estudios Atacameños. Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas enfrenta hoy el doble desafío de mantenerse como una publicación líder en su campo, tanto en lo referente a la calidad académica de los artículos publicados como al nivel de las métricas de evaluación de revistas científicas. Esto ocurre en un contexto de gran demanda por parte de nuestros autores producto del nivel de indexación, así como de la implementación reciente del software de código abierto para la administración de revistas (OJS-Open Journal System), el cual elevó cuantitativamente la recepción de artículos. Hoy estamos posicionados en el Cuartil 1 (Q1) dentro del prestigioso índice y ranking SJR de Scimago, en todas sus áreas temáticas, ubicándonos por primera vez como la revista número 1 a nivel latinoamericano. Por otra parte, en el reporte de CiteScore, Estudios Atacameños. Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas se encuentra con un indicador de 0.82, superando el 0.58 de 2017, estableciéndose en Q1 en las dos áreas en las que está presente.

This dataset contains archaeological and heritage sites of the Marmarica region (NE-Libya/NW-Egypt), ranging from the Late Bronze to the Roman times. It has been developed in the framework of the PERAIA project, which aims to analyse the longterm history and interaction patterns along the harsh environments of northeastern Africa. The records contain accurate geographic location of sites, including place names, typology, chronology, and metadata of documented remains, along with information regarding the environmental and ecological context. Additionally, the dataset accounts for the specificities of the region's varying environmental conditions and their potential impact on archaeological heritage. All this information associated with each archaeological site was collected from published field data surveys, maps, archaeological reports, and it was subsequently cross-checked with historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery to detect, and to register known and unknown sites within the study area. Regarding the potential reuse of all this data, the dataset is deposited on the project website and linked to Zenodo.

La presente memoria de título tiene como objetivo comprender, desde una óptica etnoarqueológica, las variables que inciden en la movilidad transhumántica y los procesos de depositación de la cultura material por parte de los grupos de pastores de Chela, situados en la comuna de Calama, Región de Antofagasta –Chile–.
Para el logro del anterior objetivo se desarrollaron actividades de campo y gabinete, ya que se pudo participar en distintas instancias de la cotidianidad que permitieron acceder a los núcleos de atesoramiento cultural reflejado tanto en actividades económicas-productivas como rituales-religiosas.
De esta forma, este estudio es un insumo que permite ampliar el conocimiento de una forma de vida y estrategia de subsistencia articulada desde tiempos inmemoriales y que puede visualizarse en torno a un vasto registro arqueológico y etnográfico, que, hasta el día de hoy, perdura tanto en el territorio como entre los habitantes de esta localidad.
El trabajo se estructura de la siguiente manera una primera parte en que se expone la problematización del tema de investigación, objetivos, antecedentes, seguida del marco teórico y marco metodológico para dar lugar a los resultados etnográficos y arqueológicos y por último la discusión de los mismos y conclusiones respectivas. Finalmente, se presentan dos anexos con el detalle de la información: anexo I fichas de asentamientos pastoriles y anexo II árbol genealógico de la familia Gabriel-Moscoso.
 

En este artículo se dan a conocer los resultados de la investigación arqueobotánica realizada en el distrito minero San José del Abra, en el norte de Chile. Esta mina, tras ser explotada inicialmente durante el período Intermedio tardío, fue incorporada posteriormente al Tawantinsuyu, produciéndose una reorganización e intensificación de la producción minera. Las excavaciones realizadas en el campamento Inkawasi-Abra permitieron recuperar una amplia diversidad de restos vegetales provenientes de distintos ecosistemas y pisos ecológicos de la región, los cuales cumplieron roles primordiales al interior del espacio habitacional. Por una parte, sustentaron la subsistencia de los mitayos atacameños, incluyendo alimentación, combustible y materias primas, y por otra, formaron parte de contextos ceremoniales y de preparación de alimentos de carácter comunal relacionados al comensalismo político, las relaciones de reciprocidad y la ritualidad minera. Gran parte de las plantas analizadas pr...

Recent archaeological research in the Murghab region of modern Turkmenistan has highlighted the variable interweaving of material, technological, and social traditions between sedentary farmers and mobile pastoralists during the late 3rd through first half of the 2nd millennium BCE. This research has also made apparent significant gaps in collective scientific knowledge, particularly in relation to the materials and habits of mobile pastoralists. In this paper, we address the lack of a basic quantitative and qualitative description of mobile pastoralist ceramics for the prehistoric Murghab by presenting the results of a multi-faceted ceramic analysis for the occupation at Ojakly. Results demonstrate a greater degree of variability in form, function, and style of handmade coarseware than expected, calling into question the characterization of "nomadic jars" as a uniform type of material culture, and further emphasizing the plurality of mobile pastoralist strategies and behaviors in this key region.

Mobility, from a historical perspective, comprises a broad variety of movements of people. This paper focuses on the mobility of multisited groups, based on the preconditions that an arid environment imposes on mobility. The Eastern Marmarica-Plateau in NW-Egypt in Graeco-Roman times (5th century BCE to 4th century CE) serves as case study of the various ways in which people in such landscapes were mobile, and what we can infer from the aspect of mobility about their social practices. In order to elucidate these issues, the discussion centres on archaeological-historical methodology and theoretical implications of mobility and the wayfaring of inhabitants of arid lands. Moreover, the question is pursued of how routes emerged and how habitual knowledge was cemented in order to establish the trails used by generations to follow. The paper shows the interconnection and similarities between the mobility of multisited communities and the seemingly so different mobility of crop-growing gr...

Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas Resumen Se describe el único fardo funerario conocido del Cementerio Las Turquesas y se revalúa junto a su contexto cultural, vinculándolos con el sitio Mina Las Turquesas, recientemente excavado. Este conjunto de evidencias posibilita incorporar a la localidad a una esfera de interacción atacameña, de gran significación económica y ritual, desarrollada fundamentalmente durante el Período Intermedio Tardío. Palabras claves: cementerio y Mina Las Turquesas-interacción circumpuneña-minería lapidaria-Período Intermedio Tardío.

This book, and the conference upon which it was based, were funded by: the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP), University of Oxford; a private contribution from Jim Ball (former FAO forestry director, and Commonwealth forests director); the British School at Rome; and the Finnish Institute of Rome. The editors would also like to acknowledge the support of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and the Department of Archaeology (University of Sydney).

The Hunchback Shelter (42BE751 ), located in the southeastern Great Basin, yielded a considerable amount of data on the prehistoric use of the site. Located adjacent to the Wild Horse Canyon and Schoo Mine obsidian sources, evidence indicates that Hunchback Shelter functioned as a camp where Archaic to Formative (Fremont) knappers produced both bifaces and expedient flake cores. The intent of these procurement visits appears to have shifted over time. Furthermore, the Fremont visits appear to be consistent with comparative evidence from Five Finger Ridge, a major Fremont village. These findings have important implications for understanding the relationship between procurement behavior and settlement structure, and the relative importance ofbiface versus core technologies during the Fremont period.

En este artículo se dan a conocer los resultados de la investigación arqueobotánica realizada en el distrito minero San José del Abra, en el norte de Chile. Esta mina, tras ser explotada inicialmente durante el período Intermedio Tardío, fue incorporada posteriormente al Tawantinsuyu, produciéndose una reorganización e intensificación de la producción minera. Las excavaciones realizadas en el campamento Inkawasi-Abra permitieron recuperar una amplia diversidad de restos vegetales provenientes de distintos ecosistemas y pisos ecológicos de la región, los cuales cumplieron roles primordiales al interior del espacio habitacional. Por una parte, sustentaron la subsistencia de los mitayos atacameños, incluyendo alimentación, combustible y materias primas, y por otra, formaron parte de contextos ceremoniales y de preparación de alimentos de carácter comunal relacionados al comensalismo político, las relaciones de reciprocidad y la ritualidad minera. Gran parte de las plantas analizadas provienen de las quebradas y oasis atacameños, incluyendo productos agrícolas, chañar (Geoffroea decorticans) y algarrobo (Prosopis sp.), sumado a otras plantas silvestres y domesticadas provenientes de ambientes puneños, valles bajos y la costa pacífica. Lo anterior permite dibujar el mapa de relaciones y redes de abastecimiento de la mina durante el período incaico, así como aportar al conocimiento de los mineros que sustentaron la producción en San José del Abra.

Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas Resumen Se describe el único fardo funerario conocido del Cementerio Las Turquesas y se revalúa junto a su contexto cultural, vinculándolos con el sitio Mina Las Turquesas, recientemente excavado. Este conjunto de evidencias posibilita incorporar a la localidad a una esfera de interacción atacameña, de gran significación económica y ritual, desarrollada fundamentalmente durante el Período Intermedio Tardío. Palabras claves: cementerio y Mina Las Turquesas-interacción circumpuneña-minería lapidaria-Período Intermedio Tardío.

La historia de este volumen temático se inicia en el año 2015, cuando entre los días 12 y 17 de julio se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de San Salvador, en El Salvador, el 55 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, bajo la consigna "Conflicto, paz y construcción de identidades en las Américas". En el marco de dicho encuentro, las editoras de este volumen convocamos a un simposio temático que, en sintonía con el lema del congreso, se titulaba "Tensar las fibras: conflicto y negociación en la construcción de identidades. Miradas desde la evidencia textil en América".