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American Antiq 56 (4)
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Title:
American Antiq 56 (4)
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Series:
American Antiquity
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Volume:
56 (4)
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Publication Type:
Journal
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Year of Publication:
1991
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Date Of Issue From: 1991
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BIAB (The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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Created Date:
20 Jan 2002
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Incorporating variation in occupation span into settlement-pattern analysis
Robert E Dewar
604 - 620
Settlement patterns recovered by archaeologists differ fundamentally from synchronic settlement patterns analysed by geographers since they are a static record of occupations that may often have had differing periods of use in the past. Many maps of the settlement pattern of prehistoric phases show more occupations than were ever simultaneously occupied. After discussing some of the problems this can cause, a way of characterising past settlement dynamics and a method for estimating both the mean number of likely simultaneous occupations for a region and phase-to-phase differences in mean occupation span is described.
Method in archaeology: middle-range theory as hermeneutics
Peter Kosso
621 - 627
Disagreements about methodology in archaeology are often located in terms of the middle range theory approach of Lewis Binford and the hermeneutic, contextual theory of Ian Hodder. These positions are usually presented in opposition to each other, but here they are shown to present very much the same methodological picture of archaeology. This specific analysis is more generally informative of the methodological relation between the natural and social sciences.
Impact of carnivore ravaging on zooarchaeological measures of element abundance
Curtis W Marean
Lillian M Spencer
645 - 658
Measures of element abundance are normally calculated by limb ends. However, contemporary experiments with known assemblages indicate that middle-shaft fragments are more accurate.
Toward distinguishing human and raptor patterning on leporid bones
Bryan Hockett
667 - 679
Differential use patterning is analysed as a way of more accurately interpreting site evidence.
Bone refuse and insect remains: their potential for temporal resolution of the archaeological record
Stephen A Chomko
B Miles Gilbert
680 - 686
The contents of a bone-filled pit from a late prehistoric site in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, are inferred to represent the remains of a meal originally cooked in a skin container. The temporal resolution made possible by the analysis of the insect remains permits the inference that the site assemblage accumulated during two separate occupations. Such an inference affects how the site assemblage may be interpreted within the context of a settlement system.
Assessing feature function and spatial patterning of artifacts with geophysical remote-sensing data
William A Martin
Robert J Huggins
James E Bruseth
701 - 720
A magnetometer and electromagnetic conductivity sensor were tested. The data from the latter was found to be less useful for site interpretation than the former. Replicative experiments showed that the magnetometer is also able to detect evidence of re-use and disturbance.