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This book examines abandonment as a stage in the formation of an archaeological site. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; Part I. Introduction: 1. Abandonment and archaeological interpretation Catherine M. Cameron; Part II. Regional Abandonment Processes: Ethnoarcheological Cases: 2. Site abandonment behaviour among transhumant agro-pastoralists: the effects of delayed curation on assemblage composition Steve M. Tomka; 3. Settlement organization and residential variability among the Raramuri Martha Graham; 4. Occupational and locational instability in arid land settlement Lee Horne; 5. Models of abandonment and material culture frequencies Susan Kent; 6. Agricultural abandonment: a comparative study in historical ecology Glenn Davis Stone; Part III. Regional Abandonment Processes: Archaelogical Cases: 7. Local abandonments and regional conditions in the North American Southwest Sarah H. Schlanger and Richard H. Wilshusen; 8. An assessment of abandonment processes in the Hohkam Classic Period of Tucson Basin Paul R. Fish and Suzanne K. Fish; 9 Regional settlement abandonment at the end of the Copper Age in the lowlands of West-Central Portugal Katina Lillios; Part IV. Abandonment Processes Within Sites: Ethnoarcheological Cases: 10. Abandonment at Zuni farming villages Nan A. Rothschild, Barbara J. Mills, T. J. Ferguson and Susan Dublin; 11. Abandonment and the production of archaeological variability at domestic sites Arthur A. Joyce and Sissel Johannssen; Part V. Abandonment Processes Within Sites: Archaeological Cases: 12. Ceramic analysis as a tool for discovering processes of Pueblo abandonment Barbara Klie Montgomery; 13. Abandonment processes in prehistoric Pueblos Ricky R. Lightfoot; 14. Household abandonment among sedentary Plains societies: behavioural sequences and consequences in the interpretation of the archaeological record Robert L. Brooks; Part VI. Conclusions: 15. Understanding abandonment processes: summary and remaining concerns Steve A. Tomka and Marc G. Stevenson....
