In the last several decades, geoarchaeological research and practice have moved well beyond their foundational concerns for site formation processes and the stratigraphic integrity of artifact associations, developing significant orientations toward archaeological and social theory. This review focuses on four overlapping research emphases that have explicitly extended the reach of geoarchaeological research within the broader social sciences and humanities, including ( a) interpretive, symbolic, and social approaches in geoarchaeological research; ( b) articulations with recent developments in posthumanist and new materialist scholarship; ( c) the application of geoarchaeological investigations to historical ecology and political ecology research programs; and ( d), building on the latter, critical engagements with ongoing transdisciplinary scholarship on the Anthropocene. Taken together, these different orientations offer new possibilities for geoarchaeological research to inform anthropological concerns for social and environmental production and the ways that archaeological and geological fields of practice and discourse contribute to shaping social, political, and environmental conditions today.

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批判地质考古学：从沉积过程到地球生命的社会政治学


在过去的几十年里，地质考古学的研究和实践已经远远超出了对遗址形成过程和文物关联的地层完整性的基本关注，为考古学和社会理论发展了重要的方向。本综述重点关注四个重叠的研究重点，这些重点明确地将地质考古研究的范围扩展到更广泛的社会科学和人文学科中，包括（a）地质考古研究中的解释性、象征性和社会方法； (b) 阐明后人类主义和新唯物主义学术的最新发展； (c) 将地质考古调查应用于历史生态学和政治生态学研究方案； (d) 在后者的基础上，对正在进行的人类世跨学科学术进行批判性的参与。总而言之，这些不同的方向为地质考古学研究提供了新的可能性，以告知人类学对社会和环境生产的关注，以及考古和地质领域的实践和话语如何有助于塑造当今的社会、政治和环境条件。