Ethnoarchéologie et ethnologie des techniques

Coudart, Anick; Lemonnier, Pierre

doi:10.4000/tc.1017

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“…From the anthropology of techniques comes another basic contribution: the theoretical developments associated with the concepts of technical process and chaîne opératoire (Coudart and Lemonier 1984). These concepts have succeeded in arranging work sequences within a structure of different tasks, and furnish them with technical, economic and social meaning.…”

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Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology

2015

Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique

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Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology

2015

Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique

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“…There is no simplified version of social reality for archaeologists to use (Coudart and Lemonnier 1984: 167-cited, though in a different context, in Conte 2006).…”

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Radiocarbon Dates and the Earliest Colonization of East Polynesia: More than a Case Study

Casa

2009

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT. Over the last 30 yr, there has been an ongoing debate on the dates and modes of the earliest colonization of East Polynesia, namely the Cook Islands, the 5 archipelagos of French Polynesia, the Hawai'i Islands, Easter Island, and New Zealand. At least 3 alternative models were proposed by Sinoto, Anderson, Kirch, and Conte, but interestingly all these models basically relied on the same set of roughly 200 radiocarbon dates on various organic materials from archaeological excavations as far back as the 1950s. Some of the models differed by 500-1000 yr-for a proposed initial colonization around the turn of the BC/AD eras, if not considerably later. By comparing the different approaches to this chronological issue, it becomes evident that almost all known problems in dealing with 14 C dates from archaeological excavations are involved: stratigraphy and exact location of samples, sample material and quality, inbuilt ages and reservoir effects, lab errors in ancient dates, etc. More recently, research into landscape and vegetation history has produced alternative 14 C dating for early human impact, adding to the confusion about the initial stages of island colonization, while archaeological 14 C dates, becoming increasingly "young" as compared to former investigations, now advocate a rapid and late (post-AD 900) colonization of the archipelagos. As it appears, the Polynesian case is more than just another case study, it's a lesson on 14 C-based archaeological chronology. The present paper does not pretend to solve the problems of early Polynesian colonization, but intends to contribute to the debate on how 14 C specialists and archaeologists might cooperate in the future.

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