num_pages: 220
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.
language: English
title: The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches
titlecomplete: The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches (New Directions in Archaeology)
genres: Archaeology
ratings_count: 2
series: New Directions in Archaeology
publisher: Cambridge University Press