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The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches

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The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches - Cameron, Catherine M., and Tomka, Steve A.
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All archaeological sites have been abandoned, but people abandoned sites in many different ways, and for different reasons. What they did when leaving a settlement, structure, or activity area had a direct effect on the kind and quality of the cultural remains entering the archaeological record - for example, whether tools were removed, destroyed, or buried in the ground, and building structures dismantled or left standing. This book examines abandonment as a stage in the formation of an archaeological site, and relies on ...

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The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521574693

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The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches 1993, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521433334

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