Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic—Old questions, novel perspectives

作者：Felix Riede, Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araújo, C. Michael Barton, Knut Andreas Bergsvik, Huw S. Groucutt, Shumon T. Hussain, Javier Fernández‐López de Pablo, Andreas Maier, Ben Marwick, Lydia Pyne, Kathryn L. Ranhorn, Natasha Reynolds, Julien Riel‐Salvatore, Florian Sauer, Kamil Serwatka, Annabell Zander · 发表于：Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1002/evan.21819 · 被引用次数：24 · 研究领域：Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology、Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction、Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Arguably, these four requirements are essential for conducting comparative and cumulative research at a supra-regional and diachronic scale, and for articulating sequences of culture change in the Paleolithic with paleogenomic, paleoecological or paleoclimatic data. Most commonly, different forms of the typological method have been used to construct such archeological cultures. Taxonomic issues are by no means restricted to the Paleolithic but take on a specific quality there as our temporal scales stretch from the near-paleontological of the Middle Pleistocene to the more intuitively appreciable timescales of the Final Paleolithic. The recurring debates about Paleolithic systematics together with recent research in many parts of the world and across many of its subperiods—from the Early Stone Age to the Epipaleolithic—have shown, however, that a substantial number of traditional archeological types are no longer doing their diagnostic work and that many formally named archeological units based on such types contribute more to confusion rather than solution in regard to our core questions.7-11 These issues are at the core of the European Research Foundation-funded project entitled CLIOdynamic ARCHaeology: Computational approaches to Final Paleolithic/earliest Mesolithic archaeology and climate change (CLIOARCH: http://cas.au.dk/en/ERC-clioarch/) and the workshop on which we report here sought to catalyze joint thinking on Paleolithic systematics in a diachronic and global per...