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The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches (New Directions in Archaeology)

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
0521574692, 9780521574693
LCC
CC79.E85 A23 1996
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34848172 bytes)
Pages
220\217
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Groups of people abandoned sites in different ways, and for different reasons. And what they did when they left a settlement or area had a direct bearing on the kind and quality of cultural remains that entered the archaeological record, for example, whether buildings were dismantled or left standing, or tools buried, destroyed or removed from the site. Contributors to this unique collection on site abandonment draw on ethnoarchaeological and archaeological data from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Near East.

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