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In the course of a survey carried out on the borders of Taşlıca village in the Karpas Peninsula a new archaeological site was recorded. To evaluate the historical role of the area, work at Taşlıca was carried out with special care and was named Taşlıca-Mersincik in the literature. The limits of the archaeological site and its chronology were determined. Within the site which will be declared to the scientific world as Taşlıca-Mersincik, pottery, fragments and unfinished statues, as well as architectural stone sculpture and structural pieces were identified. Among the many finds is a select group consisting of 24 statue fragments, carved stone, and terracotta fragments. Together with diagnostic pottery from the surface they were used for a chronological comparison with other sites. The great majority of the Taşlıca-Mersincik pottery, consisting of coarse ware and vessels for everyday use, belongs to Cypro-Archaic II. The existence of a very small number of pieces of Late Roman date demonstrated the existence of a later occupation as well, but no continuous settlement. Ceramic cinders retrieved within the area, might point to pottery production or ritual activities at the site. The sculptural fragments show both domestic and foreign characteristics and belong to the second half of the Archaic II phase. They indicate a possible sculpture work-shop showing international influences. The location of the site close to important straits and harbour areas, as well as the multicultural nature of the artefacts hints at overseas contacts and a possible harbour site at the coast. As a result of the survey at Taşlıca-Mersincik, information concerning the sociocultural and economic life of the settlement was recorded. Thus, it is likely that, as a result of future stratigraphical excavation, the role of the settlement, as well as that of the Karpas Peninsula, within the eastern Mediterranean networks might become much clearer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent works on collaboration during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) have contributed much to the field by focusing on the concrete functioning of institutions in occupied China. Yet, a more systematic definition of the process by which these institutions took shape is necessary in order to better understand how state making in occupied China relates to the longue durée of the Chinese state, on the one hand, and to Japan's imperial endeavor, on the other. This article aims to fill this gap by proposing a new definition of state making in occupied China and providing an overview that clarifies both the chronology of the occupation state and the roles of key actors within it. Ultimately, it makes the case for a reassessment of the occupation state as one of the competing political realms that contributed to shape the modern Chinese state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Clazomenian Sarcophagi is one of the important field of study regarding the Ionian pictorial art during the Archaic and Classical periods. These sarcophagi made their appearances in Clazomenae in the third quarter of the 7th century B.C. and preserved their existence well into the Classical period. The discussions on styles and chronology of painters who decorated them are still ongoing. One of the most authentic sarcophagus painter who produced in the 5th century B.C. is Hopkinson Painter the individual who was defined by R.M. Cook. More sarcophagi have been unearthed elsewhere by the agency of recent excavations. With the help of newly discovered finds, this study aims to make an evaluation about style and chronology of the painter as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A renewed adoption of relational perspectives by archaeologists working in eastern North America has created an opportunity to move beyond categorical approaches, those reliant on the top-down implementation of essentialist models or "types." Instead, emerging approaches, concerned with highlighting the agential power of relationships between individuals, communities, and institutions, and, more generally, with simply moving beyond categories, are allowing archaeologists to move from the bottom-up, focusing instead on the relationships that underlie, and indeed constitute, social, political, and economic phenomena. In this paper, I synthesize recent archaeological work from across eastern North America in which archaeologists have productively moved beyond a reliance on categorical perspectives. I explicitly focus on the potential for relational perspectives to recalibrate our social and temporal referents in crafting archaeological narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the conventional ways to construct Late Quaternary chronostratigraphic frameworks for archaeology in southern Africa is through archaeological technocomplexes. This practice is more developed in South Africa and Lesotho than in the northern areas of the region. The Still Bay, Howiesons Poort, Robberg, Oakhurst, and Wilton technocomplexes are widely recognized, whereas more ambiguity is associated with the Bambata, Tshangula, Pietersburg, Mossel Bay, Sibudu, Sibudan and early Later Stone Age. Technocomplexes are frequently defined in relation to generalized, typological attributes from lithic assemblages excavated over several decades at different sites with various levels of resolution. This might lead to coarse-level data that do not necessarily relate to changes in culture, cognition, climate or the environment. Here the relationship between lithic technology and the palaeoenvironment is explored from a constrained chronostratigraphic context in two technocomplexes from the southern Cape coast, the Mossel Bay from Klasies River Main site, and the Oakhurst from Klipdrift Cave. Significant changes in the shore habitat are not reflected at technocomplex level, but lithic densities and dimensions of the products vary more closely with environmental shifts. Although a close relationship between Marine Isotope Stages and technocomplexes cannot be unambiguously demonstrated, some aspects of lithic technology seem to be sensitive to palaeoenvironmental change. Technocomplexes have heuristic value to identify cultural patterns through time and space and they are useful in determining where gaps in evidence occur. Ordering stone tool assemblages using technocomplexes remains one of the main ways to construct archaeological chronologies, especially when refined dating results are not available, and for exploring archaeological cultural developments against the backdrop of paleoclimate fluctuations, especially between MIS 6 and 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a new absolute chronology for the archaeological site of Abu Salabikh, Southern Iraq, during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. The main goals of this study were to synchronise the sequences of the West and Main Mounds, corroborating the dating schemes based on archaeological and textual finds, and assigning an absolute date to the transition between Uruk and Early Dynastic (ED) periods. Previously published dates and newly produced 14C measurements were used in tandem with Bayesian statistical models to arrive at more precise time estimates. Some inconsistencies in the results point to possible disturbance of the archaeological sequence in the context of tannur kilns and highlight the need for careful sample collection and selection methodology. The results suggest a hiatus in settlement between the Uruk and ED periods c. 3000 BC, and confirm the date of c. 2650-2500 BC for the Early Dynastic ED IIIa Fara-style texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 1985–2014, the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon excavated a trench on the north side of Ashkelon's central mound (Grid 38) exposing a Bronze and Iron Age sequence over an area of some 450 m2. By combining different radiocarbon sampling strategies used over the years of excavation, an absolute chrono-cultural scheme is constructed for the latter half of the 2nd millennium b.c.e. with a focus on the transition to the Iron Age. This chronology is then synchronized with several nearby sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Recent aerial photographs of Pen y Gaer have revealed significant new details about the fort and its extramural adjuncts. These provide a springboard for examining the wider implications for extramural activity outside other forts across Wales and the Marches, and for exploring the function and chronology of potentially official buildings within the wider landscape of communications and control. Such an approach invites comparison with other frontier regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research in Henryk Sienkiewicz's Archive has led to finding four unpublished to this day letters by the writer to his friend Stanisław Witkiewicz. The collection of letters come from the time when Sienkiewicz was unmarried, and include new pieces of information to the writer's studies. The author of the article scrutinises the new correspondence, settles its chronology, and includes the letters into the earlier collection published by Maria Bokszczanin. Edition of the letters with endnotes is a crucial element of this publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the evidence for long term trends in anthropogenic activity and population dynamics across the Holocene in the central Mediterranean and the chronology of cultural events. The evidence for this has been constituted in a database of 4608 radiocarbon dates (of which 4515 were retained for analysis following initial screening) from 1195 archaeological sites in southern France, Italy and Malta, spanning the Mesolithic to Early Iron Age periods, c. 8000 to 500 BC. We provide an overview of the settlement record for central Mediterranean prehistory and add to this an assessment of the available archaeological radiocarbon evidence in order to review the traditional narratives on the prehistory of the region. This new chronology has enabled us to identify the most significant points in time where activity levels, population dynamics and cultural change have together caused strong temporal patterning in the archaeological record. Some of these episodes were localized to one region, whereas others were part of pan-regional trends and cultural trajectories that took many centuries to play out fully, revealing prehistoric societies subject to collapse, recovery, and continuing instability over the long-term. Using the radiocarbon evidence, we model growth rates in the various regions so that the tempo of change at certain points in space and time can be identified, compared, and discussed in the context of demographic change. Using other published databases of radiocarbon data, we have drawn comparisons across the central Mediterranean to wider prehistoric Europe, and northern Africa. Finally, we include a brief response to the synchronously published but independently developed paper (Palmisano et al. in J World Prehist 34(3), 2021). While there are differences in our respective approaches, we share the general conclusions that large-scale trends can been identified through meta-analyses of the archaeological record, and these offer new perspectives on how society functioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Early in his career, the Roman senator Q. Aurelius Symmachus was entrusted with a senatorial embassy to the imperial court at Trier, where he addressed a total of three panegyrics to Valentinian I and Gratian. Although recent scholarship has dated the first of these speeches to 368, the traditional date of 369 is supported by both a key textual parallel and external evidence that places Symmachus and Valentinian together on the Rhine frontier in 369. Once this chronology is clarified, Symmachus's embassy can be properly situated within the broader context of relations between the senate and the imperial court in Trier. Symmachus's stay in Trier overlapped with the beginning and quickening of Maximinus's notorious investigations of illicit magical practices in Rome. Although necessarily speculative, one explanation for the extraordinary length of Symmachus's stay in Trier could be that it was related in some way to the increasingly fraught situation in Rome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We present three unreported U/Th dates on coral abraders recovered from Lapita occupations at the 'Otea and Vuna sites, in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga. Integrated with existing radiocarbon and U/Th dates for Vava'u, we also provide a single‐phase Bayesian model for Lapita chronology in these islands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is the first attempt to give a focused analysis of the annual art and architecture periodical Jahrbuch für bildende Kunst in den Ostseeprovinzen that was published by the Riga Society of Architects in 1907-1913 (since 1911 as Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst in den Ostseeprovinzen). The main aspects of interpretation include the aesthetic programme of this yearbook and a chronology of its implementation, prehistory, models and context, qualities of design and typography, identity of designers, highlights of the visual and textual content, scope of and gaps in national and regional representation, as well as influence on other initiatives in the field of art periodicals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper summarises recent test excavations at five Mound Village sites in the south-eastern sector of Acre state, Brazil, including Caboquinho, Boa Esperança, Tocantins, Dois Círculos IV and V. Radiocarbon dates obtained from the excavation of these sites refine the chronology of this archaeological tradition. To improve the chronologies of the mound villages in Acre for which radiocarbon dates were available, we modelled them using Bayesian statistics. Bayesian modelling of new radiocarbon dates from basal contexts of nine sites in the region establish the beginning of this archaeological tradition at ~ AD 952-1216. Nine dates from ten construction phases at the Caboquinho site establish the longest sequence from ~ AD 1169-1309 to colonial times. The stratigraphy of the test units reported in this study confirms previous results indicating that mounds are the result of alternating construction and occupation episodes. Dates from the Dois Círculos IV Rectangular Mound Village ~ AD 1367-1451 indicates that Rectangular Villages are broadly contemporaneous with Circular Mound Villages. Single dates from three superimposed villages at Dois Círculos V suggest the succession of village construction. Overall, these preliminary results make a contribution to a better understanding of the timing of emergence and demise of Mound Village construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published evidence of prehistoric settlement from the lowlands of Amazonian Peru is sufficiently scarce to perpetuate debates over the presence and impact of early populations in western Amazonia. In this paper we review the cultural prehistory of the Lower Ucayali River, assess the presence of archeological sites and recovered artifacts, and describe a promising new site (Suni Caño) which may have been the chiefdom seat of the late prehistoric Cocama. We argue for a fuller exploration of the site and nearby terraces along the Lower Ucayali and in doing so, suggest that studies aiming to resolve debates over early environmental influence of humans in the Peruvian Amazon may not be looking in the most propitious places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prehistoric settlement of the west coast of the Senegalese-Mauritanian basin is established from archaeological remains and coal samples collected, sometimes in a stratigraphic context. However, the chronology issued, in the Before Present (BP) age, does not take into account the taphonomic context of the sites and the local reservoir age. Therefore, this article revisits the chronologies obtained based on the 14C literature and dating(s) acquired. Changes in time and duration of human occupancy of the area are shorter or longer depending on adequate yields of local reservoir age (Ndeye, 2008), which is a relevant element for marine samples. Thus, the archaeological implications observed with the reservoir effect are the rejuvenation or ageing of the dates, the age of the sites, the duration of occupation prehistoric or historical sites studied. Using the calibration programmes, it is noted that for the site of Senegal (Khant), without taking into account the reservoir effect, the human occupation is a priori, from the fifth millennium (Ancient Neolithic) to the third millennium BC (Middle Neolithic). However, if this marine reservoir effect is applied, the chronological periodisation goes from the fourth millennium to the first millennium. For the Mauritanian sites, the reservoir age correction is necessary for the Chami site while for the Tintan site is not required. Therefore, the calibrated archaeological chronologies obtained after the application of the marine reservoir effect are more relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Significant progress in archeomagnetic studies over the past decade suggests that magnetic dating may be a valuable tool for reconstructing chronologies of firing structures. Despite important works with numerous findings of great regional impact, the absolute chronology of archaeological sites in the state of Guanajuato is supported by few reliable data. The archaeological rescue intervention carried out in the city of Irapuato, offered a unique opportunity to analyze a perfectly preserved stove and oven, considered to be excellent means of recording the Earth's Magnetic Field at the time of its last use. The magnetic experiments carried out included: determination of hysteresis cycles, acquisition of the isothermal remanent magnetization, continuous thermomagnetic curves, demagnetization by alternating fields and determination of the absolute geomagnetic intensities. Titanium-poor titanomagnetite emerges as the main magnetic carrier while its domain state corresponds to pseudo-single structure. Characteristic directions were obtained for both structures analyzed with reasonable precision. However, the absolute archaeointensity was obtained only for the furnace samples (Structure 2). The result of archeomagnetic dating for the stove showed an interval of time between AD 973 and 1204. Instead, the dating of the presumably limekiln provided an age interval between 36 B.C. and AD 40. These data open a new panorama in the study of the earliest occupations that occurred in this sector of the Bajío. Despite the existence of reports of Chupícuaro-style ceramics near the area, there are no supported absolute dates that corroborate these new dates of occupation. When comparing the obtained results with the chronologies, it seems that the Lo de Juárez site is contemporaneous to the Mixtlán and so-called Interphase phases. At the same time, the stove is located in the early post-classic period. These new absolute chronological contributions open new questions regarding the occupation phases of the regional pre-Hispanic population, specifically, the Guanajuato River Basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, probability sampling became much less visible in archaeological literature as it came under assault from the post-processual critique and the widespread adoption of “full-coverage survey.” After 1990, published discussion of probability sampling rarely strayed from sample-size issues in analyses of artifacts along with plant and animal remains, and most textbooks and archaeological training limited sampling to regional survey and did little to equip new generations of archaeologists with this critical aspect of research design. A review of the last 20 years of archaeological literature indicates a need for deeper and broader archaeological training in sampling; more precise usage of terms such as “sample”; use of randomization as a control in experimental design; and more attention to cluster sampling, stratified sampling, and nonspatial sampling in both training and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ahar County, located in the northeast of Azerbaijan, has different sites and cultures. Archaeological studies and chronological table of Azerbaijan have been formed based on the data of Urmia Lake basin and the position of other regions of northwestern Iran, including Qaradagh region (meaning very large mountain in Turkish), remained unknown in its cultural sequence. Since this area is located between the South Caucasus region and the northern regions (Mugan region) of northwestern Iran and the basins of Lake Urmia and Ghezel Ozan, it can play an important role in explaining the periods of Neolithic, Chalcolithic. Comparison and analysis of newly discovered archaeological data in the region will provide a relatively new result. In order to promote and achieve the prehistoric cultures of the region (cultural periods), the following questions are raised: 1- How is the chronological sequence of this region explained according to the cultural periods? The main hypothesis related to this question is the existence of New Neolithic periods and New Chalcolithic 2 and 3 (LC2-3) in Ahar area. 2- What cultural features is shown by common and non-common links (cultural interactions) of this region from northwestern Iran including Mugan region and other regions in terms of archaeological data and chronology of the mentioned periods? This writing is done using field surveys and descriptive-analytical study of archaeological data to clarify the cultural horizons and chronological table of the region. As a final result, it can be said that the pottery of the mentioned periods shows similarities with other regions of northwestern Iran, especially with the Urmia Lake basin. Given the vastness of the sites and other archaeological data, it is inferred that the settlements are seasonal and temporary and have probably been used by livestock and nomadic communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article deals with some oikonyms of Slavic origin on the territory of Albania, mostly in the etymological aspect. They are located in the eastern part of the country, especially in the districts of Elbasan, Berat and Korça. Most of the place names are derived from personal names (Konjazmaniz, Mbjeshovё, Orenjё, Skavicё, Tёrzhnjevё, Uznovё, Zilehova) or from collective inhabitants’ names which are of anthroponymical origin (Bezmisht, Bodar, Dohoshisht, Trepsenisht, Ziçisht); some of them have common names as their stems (Brenogё, Gizavesh, Muzhёnckё, Rashnapojё). From the word-formative point of view, both the morphological names with the suffixes -ov-/-ev- (Mbjeshovё, Tёrzhnjevё, Uznovё, Zilehova), -j- (Muzhёnckё, Orenjё), -ьcь (Gizavesh, Konjazmaniz), -oka (Brenogё), -ьsk- (Kozjaveçko) and the lexico-semantic formations from collective inhabitants’ names with the suffixes-itji (Bezmisht, Dohoshisht, Trepsenisht, Ziçisht) and -i (Bodar) are represented. Different reflexes of the jers indicate the different chronology of the names’ adaptation by the Albanian language. Some motivating stems (*Dox-oš-, *Kon(ę, ’a)sъmanъ) are not otherwise attested in Bulgarian and South Slavic languages as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article seeks to support the earlier dating of campaigns on the Roman eastern frontier in the 540s. It addresses points made in a recent contribution by Michael Whitby, who argued that the traditional chronology, which places a Roman invasion of Persarmenia in 543 and a Persian siege of Edessa in 544, should be retained. The article seeks to demonstrate that the grounds he offers are inadequate and concludes therefore that the earlier dating, according to which the Romans invaded Persarmenia in autumn 542 and the Persians besieged Edessa in 543, is to be preferred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, part of a gilded attire set for decorating clothes is published, from the Museum of Srem, belonging to the Hungarian arts-and-crafts milieu of the period immediately after their settling in the Pannonian Plain. The group of finds, consisting of a total of 14 pieces, was gifted to the Museum in the middle of the 20th century as a legacy of Franjo Rački, who was the parson of Sremska Mitrovica and trustee of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. It is assumed that the finds originate from the area of Mitrovica, where Rački used to procure antiquities, or the wider region of Syrmia. It is a set consisting of two-piece pendants and two types of appliques which used to adorn the attire of the female part of the population in the 10th century. On this occasion, formal, technological and decorative characteristics are examined, through a comparative analysis with similar decorative sets from the Carpathian Basin. Finally, with an overview of other archaeological finds of similar chronology, historical circumstances and the nature of the Hungarian presence in the area between the Danube and the Sava are briefly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses how detailed analyses of archaeological contexts and macrobotanical remains are critical for building a high‐resolution chronology in archaeological research. While the application of Bayesian modelling has improved chronology‐building significantly, archaeologists have sometimes neglected different dates recovered from the same depositional layer without further scrutiny. Based on 78 radiocarbon samples, this problem is challenged by building a high‐resolution chronology of the Guzmán Group, a small plaza compound of the ancient Maya city of El Palmar, Mexico. The results permit a deeper understanding of relationships between dynastic interactions and the emergence of non‐royal elites in Classic Maya society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ancient port city of Sumhuram (Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman) has been the focus of over 20 years of research by the Italian Mission to Oman (IMTO), University of Pisa, in collaboration with the Office of the Adviser to His Majesty the Sultan for Cultural Affairs (Muscat‐Salalah, Sultanate of Oman). Excavation has revealed most of the town layout, leading to the identification of several buildings, alleyways, squares and workshops, among which two massive buildings stand out, significantly named by the excavators as "Monumental Building" 1 and 2 (MB1 and MB2). This paper presents the results of the excavation inside MB1, characterised by the presence of the only well discovered within the city walls, which was previously interpreted alternatively as a palace or as a temple. The architectural development of the building, its distinctive features, the archaeological material discovered inside it, and its chronology will be discussed. These results highlight the absence of fitting parallels from other ancient South Arabian towns. Overall, it is clear that access to, management of, and control over the water supply of the town represented a key asset which justified the huge investment in workforce and building materials that is reflected in the monumental architecture of this edifice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of the paper is to contextualise ethnographic research on post-socialist transformations in Lithuania within the broader field of the anthropology of post-socialism. The paper overviews the discussions in anthropology of post-socialism about challenges in defining the region and the chronology of post-socialism, as well as reflections on power relations between the West and the East in these studies. The paper discusses how these challenges have been addressed by anthropologists who conducted research on post-socialist transformations in Lithuania after the 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A new method for automated construction of 14C-based archaeological chronologies, called Barcode Seriation (BS), is introduced. The application of BS is demonstrated for medium-sized (N~50 sites) datasets of the early Neolithic cultures Starčevo/Körös/Criş, LBK-I, and Vinča A. The BS-method is easy to apply, but nevertheless allows construction of 14C-chronologies at comparatively high dating precision. The key to BS is a new timing discriminator (TD), designed for leading/trailing edge shape-analysis of summed probability distributions of 14C-ages (SPDs). In functional terms, the TD works as an Analog-to-Digital Converter. The SPD signal digitisation, in turn, supports large-scale 14C-database analysis on different levels of data confinement (e.g. by sites, periods, periods, cultures, phases) as well as on large geographic scales (regional-continental). Due to the compactness of the chosen graphic-output topology, the combined BS/TD-technology supports ordination and plotting of very large 14C-datasets, but leaving room in graphic representation for the chronology to be shown in context with other records e.g. from palaeoenvironmental, archaeobiological, and palaeaoclimatological studies. The feasibility of routine application of the new method is demonstrated by case-comparisons at high dating-resolution for the sites of Pityerdomb (Hungary), Vráble (Slowakia), Versend-Gilencsa (Hungary), Vinča-Belo-Brdo (Serbia), and at two LBK-sites ('Lüsse' and 'Unteres Feld') both located in the Ammer Valley near Tübingen (Germany). The new methodology is complemented with studies towards the application of Gauge Theory in support of archaeological 14C-analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hutchings and Williams' proposed sequence for Salish Sea Islands is an ambitious effort. While we agree that a synthesis of the archaeology of the southern Salish Sea is long overdue, their summary fails to reflect the current state of research in the Salish Sea and is a decontextualized application of indigenous ontology. We provide a breakdown of data and interpretive issues with their summary. Our critiques broadly fall within categories of: theoretical issues with chronology construction, the need for methodological rigor when discussing radiocarbon age estimates, underciting current research which may, in part, be attributable to the accessibility of cultural resource management "gray" literature and the US-Canadian border, and the need to critically think about the application of ethnographic data. While there is a clear need for a proper regional synthesis, it should be the result of a longitudinal research program in southern Puget Sound in concert with tribes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]