The Machile River and its surrounding tributaries in Western Zambia formed a significant locus of Iron Age life in Zambia and served as a conduit for the localized movements of people, things, and ideas in south-central Africa over much of the last two millennia. Within this dynamic corridor, the early 2nd-millennium CE Kanono site represents a short-lived but well defined Middle/Late Iron Age farming community that integrated local crafting practices with global and regional orientations, during a period of dramatic political and economic changes across southern, central, and eastern Africa. Combining high-resolution geophysical survey and the results of targeted excavations at Kanono, we trace the emergence, growth, and abandonment of the village between the mid-thirteenth and early fifteenth centuries CE. We argue that changes seen in the village relate to the formation of a bounded co-residential community built around unilineal descent, which may have leveraged prestige in iron working into other forms of prestige – namely wealth in people and access to exotic goods. Approaching the archaeological record at Kanono from the perspective of household archaeology and daily life allows for an evocative ‘peopling’ of south-central African political economies.

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卡诺诺的住户、社区和手工艺：赞比亚西部第二个千年村庄的考古学


赞比亚西部的马希莱河及其周边支流构成了赞比亚铁器时代生活的重要场所，并在过去两千年的大部分时间里成为非洲中南部人员、事物和思想本地化流动的渠道。在这条充满活力的走廊中，公元 2 世纪初的卡诺诺遗址代表了一个短暂但定义明确的铁器时代中期/晚期农业社区，在南部、中非和东部非洲政治和经济发生巨大变化的时期，将当地手工艺实践与全球和区域导向相结合。结合高分辨率地球物理勘测和 Kanono 的定向挖掘结果，我们追溯了公元 13 世纪中叶至 15 世纪初该村庄的出现、发展和废弃。我们认为，村庄中所看到的变化与围绕单系血统建立的有界共同住宅社区的形成有关，这可能将钢铁加工的声望转化为其他形式的声望——即人们的财富和获得异国情调的商品。从家庭考古学和日常生活的角度来研究卡诺诺的考古记录，可以让人回味无穷地 “窥视 ”中南部非洲的政治经济。