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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology  Volume 30, Issue 3,  Pages 247-472 (September 2011)

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Identifying locals, migrants, and captives in the Wari Heartland: A bioarchaeological and biogeochemical study of human remains from Conchopata, Peru   Original Research Article  Pages 247-261  Tiffiny A. Tung, Kelly J. Knudson Highlights ► Analyzed skeletons, mortuary context, and radiogenic strontium isotope ratios. ► New technique for evaluating radiogenic strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) to detect nonlocal persons. ► 2/31 burials and 14/18 trophy heads exhibit nonlocal 87Sr/86Sr. ► Nonlocal trophy heads are from a variety of locales and many were highly mobile. ► Wari warriors took captives from other locales and treated them differently based on age and sex.

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An ongoing Austronesian expansion in Island Southeast Asia   Original Research Article  Pages 262-272  J. Stephen Lansing, Murray P. Cox, Therese A. de Vet, Sean S. Downey, Brian Hallmark, Herawati Sudoyo Highlights ► Island Southeast Asia shows unusual demographic, linguistic, cultural and genetic patterns. ► Ethnographic simulation model based on structuralist concepts provides an explanation. ► The model implies that the Austronesian expansion continues today in central Timor.

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The evolution of human culture during the later Pleistocene: Using fauna to test models on the emergence and nature of “modern” human behavior   Original Research Article  Pages 273-291  Jamie L. Clark Highlights ► Models linking the emergence of modern behavior to resource stress require testing. ► Tested models using Middle Stone Age faunal remains from Sibudu (South Africa). ► Faunal data provide tentative support for the stress models.

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Plants as material culture in the Near Eastern Neolithic: Perspectives from the silica skeleton artifactual remains at Çatalhöyük   Original Research Article  Pages 292-305  Philippa Ryan Highlights ► Studying non-food plant uses provides insight into diversity of plant and land use. ► Numerous silica skeleton traces of plant artifacts survive at Çatalhöyük. ► Large amounts of plants were used for building materials and basketry. ► Taxa identified reflect the exploitation of varied environmental habitats. ► Results reveal symbolic and domestic plant uses in an early agricultural village.

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Alternative pathways to power in late Postclassic Highland Mesoamerica   Original Research Article  Pages 306-326  Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, Richard E. Blanton Highlights ► Aspects of structure, agency, power sharing, and decentralization are considered. ► Collective action was key to state building in Postclassic Highland Mexico. ► Collective action theory links revenues, bureaucracy/power sharing and public goods. ► States based on internal revenues divided power and provided public goods. ► States based on external revenues exhibited despotism and did not provide for voice.

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Humans and marine resource interaction reappraised: Archaeofauna remains during the late Pleistocene and Holocene in Cantabrian Spain   Original Research Article  Pages 327-343  Esteban Álvarez-Fernández Highlights ► We review human exploitation of marine resources in Cantabrian Spain. ► The use of marine resources becomes widespread after the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic. ► This exploitation continues without a break during the Holocene. ► Humans consume a wide variety of marine animals and not only molluscs as previously thought. ► Molluscs were gathered as food but also as raw material to make artefacts, such as tools and pendants.

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Prehistoric migration at Nebira, South Coast of Papua New Guinea: New insights into interaction using isotope and trace element concentration analyses   Original Research Article  Pages 344-358  Ben Shaw, Hallie Buckley, Glenn Summerhayes, Claudine Stirling, Malcolm Reid Highlights ► Five non-local individuals identified out of 27 sampled from inland Nebira site. ► Non-local individuals possibly migrated from a coastal location. ► Archaeological and isotopic evidence suggests close ties with coastal communities. ► No correlation between migration and sex, age or trauma. ► Further isotopic research needed to identify specific origins of non-local individuals.

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Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian: Unraveling links between cultural adaptation and ecology during the Last Glacial Maximum in France   Original Research Article  Pages 359-374  William E. Banks, Thierry Aubry, Francesco d’Errico, João Zilhão, Andrés Lira-Noriega, A. Townsend Peterson Highlights ► We apply predictive modeling architectures to the Badegoulian technocomplex. ► We identified two Badegoulian lithic raw material circulation networks. ► We reconstructed the eco-cultural niche for each Badegoulian territory. ► We evaluated the ecological contexts of these territories. ► We discuss the implications of territorial differentiation within an ecological niche.

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The ethnoarchaeology of firewood management in the Fang villages of Equatorial Guinea, central Africa: Implications for the interpretation of wood fuel remains from archaeological sites   Original Research Article  Pages 375-384  Llorenç Picornell Gelabert, Eleni Asouti, Ethel Allué Martí Highlights ► An ethnoarchaeological analysis of firewood management among the Fang is presented. ► We discuss it as historically constituted and socially mediated landscape practices. ► In relation to this, we analyze the archaeological visibility of theses practices. ► Accordingly, different approaches to archaeological charcoal analysis are discussed.

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Measuring Paleoindian range mobility and land-use in the Great Lakes/Northeast   Original Research Article  Pages 385-401  Christopher Ellis Highlights ► It is argued that the main toolstone source used at a site provides good measure of annual range mobility rather than logistical mobility or even the scale of exchange networks. ► Strategies are developed and applied that allow one to assess how Paleoindian patterns of land use and especially the size of ranges exploited measure up against ethnographic data. ► Paleoindians in the area were covering large ranges that appear unusual versus the range sizes seen ethnographically. ► The range size data suggest Paleoindians in the area practiced patterns of land use that are different from most ethnographically known cases, targeting very widely spaced resources on the landscape with little use of intervening areas. ► The few groups that practiced similar patterns of land use historically are all ones targeting caribou supporting the idea that a targeting of that same resource in the area by Paleoindians is still a reasonable model. ► Clear changes are demonstrated in the Paleoindian record over time including reduction in the scale of range mobility, a shift from predominantly north to south patterns of movement to less structured directional movements and a shift to less intensive use of toolstone source areas.

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Large game, agricultural land, and settlement pattern change in the eastern Mimbres area, southwest New Mexico   Original Research Article  Pages 402-415  Karen Gust Schollmeyer Highlights ► Settlement changes did not improve access to arable land or large game. ► Settlement changes were linked to perceptions of local conditions as below-average. ► Southwestern deer populations were highly susceptible to human hunting pressure.

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Psychological components of middle paleolithic technology: The proceduralization of lithic core reduction   Original Research Article  Pages 416-431  T. Alexandra Sumner Highlights ► Method was developed for exploring qualitative and quantitative lithic data simultaneously. ► Interdisciplinary use of current method is used to make links between data and theory. ► Method helped explore the chaîne opératoire of stone toolmaking. ► Data from refitting research was used to make inferences regarding early human cognition.

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Feasting landscapes and political economy at the Early Horizon center of Huambacho, Nepeña Valley, Peru   Original Research Article  Pages 432-453  David Chicoine Highlights ► Feasts are universal human practices part of important political strategies. ► Variability in feasting practices inform on political economy of a society. ► Excavations at Huambacho (800–200 cal. B.C.), coastal Peru, have yielded evidence of feasts. ► Evidence from architectural forms, material culture and food remains is analyzed. ► Results indicate complex feasting landscapes with dual centripetal and centrifugal components.

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Hunter–gatherer responses to environmental change during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition in the southern North Sea basin: Final Palaeolithic–Final Mesolithic land use in northwest Belgium   Original Research Article  Pages 454-471  Philippe Crombé, Joris Sergant, Erick Robinson, Jeroen De Reu Highlights ► In this study we analyze the response of prehistoric hunter–gatherers to environmental changes. ► The study focuses on the southern fringe of the North Sea basin. ► The study is based on a GIS and statistical analysis of a database of 126 sites. ► The study reveals a change in mobility and land use at the transition from Early to late/Final Mesolithic. ► These changes are connected with increasing water table.

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