The Columbia-Fraser Plateau of Northwestern North America was inhabited by complex hunter-gatherer populations throughout the Late Holocene. Archaeological studies have typically characterized these peoples as having corporate households and wealth inequality. Ethnographic accounts emphasize the societies of this region as egalitarian communities and pacifist. In this paper we compare radiocarbon dates for semi-subterranean houses with legacy data for skeletal remains with trauma, mesa-top and island habitations, and storage caves to identify patterns in semi-sedentary settlement and conflict. Additionally, analysis of wealth inequality is conducted using legacy data of burials from throughout the Columbia Plateau. The radiocarbon dataset and legacy data can be reconciled with ethnographic patterns using an anarchist theoretical framework, to provide a potential explanation of the historical changes in socio-economic systems.

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从无政府主义框架看哥伦比亚高原社会政治组织：作为对集权的抵抗的冲突


在全新世晚期，北美洲西北部的哥伦比亚-弗雷泽高原上居住着复杂的狩猎采集人群。考古研究通常将这些民族描述为拥有企业家庭和财富不平等。民族志记载强调该地区的社会是平等主义社区和和平主义者。在本文中，我们将半地下房屋的放射性碳测年结果与有创伤的骨骼遗骸、台面和岛屿栖息地以及储存洞穴的遗留数据进行比较，以识别半定居和冲突的模式。此外，还利用整个哥伦比亚高原墓葬的遗留数据对财富不平等进行了分析。放射性碳数据集和遗留数据可以使用无政府主义理论框架与民族志模式相协调，从而为社会经济系统的历史变化提供潜在的解释。