The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions

The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions PDF Author: Catherine M. Cameron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521433334
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Book 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.