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The results of seasonality studies undertaken with prehistoric faunal materials from the Greenwich Cove site in coastal Rhode Island are presented. Growth patterns in shells of the hard clam or quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria) are used to reconstruct the time(s) of year this species was collected. A controlled study of seasonal growth provides a comparative baseline for this analysis. Seasonality of white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) hunting is interpreted through the examination of growth structures in preserved teeth. The seasonal availability of migratory species is also considered. Relatively year‐round coastal settlement is proposed for the final centuries of the prehistoric period.

On a récemment tenté d'appliquer les techniques modernes de l'analyse sociale à la criminalité et aux criminels des siècles précédents. Cet article expose certains des problèmes démontrés par de telles approches. En particulier, il souligne les dangers de se fonder sur des interprétations insuffisamment critiques des dossiers; il insiste sur le besoin d'effectuer des recherches sur un vaste éventail de sources et de recours légaux, plutôt qu'uniquement sur les dossiers de cas criminels dans les principaux tribunaux royaux; et il préconise un certain scepticisme dans la lecture de l'appareil statistique quelquefois complexe, fondé sur des données éparses et inconsistantes.

This paper presents new findings about English, French, and Swedish mobility tables from the early 1970s that were previously analyzed by Enkson, Gold thorpe & Portocarero and by Hope. The former analysis focused on nonvertical aspects of mobility, while the latter gave priority to vertical mobility. The reanalysis shows that the vertical dimension of mobility is stronger and more autonomous than one would conclude from earlier analyses. At the same time, it is necessary to introduce several parameters for class inheritance in order to fit the data, and these parameters account for more of the association between class origins and destinations than does the vertical aspect of class mobility Educational attainment accounts for part of the vertical aspect of mobility, but income and occupational prestige do not help to explain it. The new models provide direct evidence of a gradient in immobility across the three nations The present findings suggest complementarities between vertical and nonvertical models of class mobility.