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Archaeology offers a unique opportunity to explore the ways humans have created, lived within, and changed their communities. Recent research indicates important theoretical distinctions in the way in which archaeologists conceive of community, and further development of nontraditional theoretical models is necessary to improve our ability to understand communities of the past. This study offers a reconsideration of community that focuses on the incorporation of multiple spatial scales with social dynamics. Through the use of ethnographic and ethnohistoric examples, the link between community and spatial relationships in longhouse-using tribal societies is examined. A case study of community from the Oneota tradition of the North American midcontinent is then reconsidered using insights into kinds of community situated at and affecting multiple spatial scales. The reanalysis emphasizes the way human relationships in multiple social contexts created a multitude of spatially situated community links, and illustrates the importance of using alternative theoretical approaches. La arqueología nos ofrece una oportunidad única para explorar las maneras en que los seres humanos han creado, vivido, y cambiado sus comunidades. Investigaciones recientes indican distinciones teóricas importantes en las maneras en que los arqueólogos conciben la comunidad, y es necesario desarrollar modelos teóricos no tradicionales para mejorar nuestra capacidad de comprender comunidades del pasado. Este estudio nos ofrece una reconsideración del concepto de la comunidad, enfocándose en la incorporación de múltiples escalas espaciales con dinámicas sociales. Usando ejemplos etnográficos así como etnohistoricos, se examina el vinculo entre la comunidad y relaciones espaciales en sociedades tribales de casa comunitaria (longhouse). Luego, vemos un estudio de caso examinando una comunidad de la tradición Oneota del continente Norteamericano, utilizando perspectivas de las relaciones humanas que se sitúan y afectan a múltiples escalas sociales. El análisis pone énfasis en cómo los múltiples contextos sociales de relaciones humanas han creado una multitud de vínculos comunitarios ubicados espacialmente, e ilustra la importancia de usar enfoques teóricos alternativos.
Since 1935 American Antiquity has published original papers on the archaeology of the New World and on archaeological method, theory, and practice worldwide. Beginning in 1990, most papers on the archaeology and prehistory of Latin America appear in the Society for American Archaeology's Latin American Antiquity.
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