The interpretation of archaeological spatial patterning
By: edited by Ellen M. Kroll, and T. Douglas Price
Contributors: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Series: Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology; The Language of science; Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology; Language of science
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781489926029; 9781489926043
Subjects: History; Congresses; Ethnoarchaeology; Excavations (Archaeology); Social archaeology; Spatial behavior; Social Sciences
Description: Investigations of archaeological intrasite spatial patterns have generally taken one of two directions: studies that introduced and explored methods for the analysis of archaeological spatial patterns or those that described and analyzed the for mation of spatial patterns in actuaiistic-ethnographic, experimental, or natu ral-contexts. The archaeological studies were largely quantitative in nature, concerned with the recognition and definition of patterns; the actualistic efforts were often oriented more toward interpretation, dealing with how patterns formed and what they meant. Our research group on archaeological spatial analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been working for several years on both quantitative and interpretive problems. Both lines of investigation are closely related and are important complements. In order to demonstrate the convergence of archaeological and actualistic studies for the understanding of intrasite spatial patterns, we organized a sympo sium at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology in Toronto, Canada, in May 1987. The symposium, titled "The Interpretation of Stone Age Archaeological Spatial Patterns," was organized into two sessions. The six papers presented in the morning session, five of which comprise Part I of this volume, focused on ethnoarchaeological and experimental research. Michael Schiffer was the discussant for this half of the symposium. Our intention for the ethnoarchaeological contributions to the symposium and volume was the delin eation of some of the significant accomplishments achieved thus far by actualistic studies regarding the formation of spatial patterns.
Notes: Papers presented at a symposium organized at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in May 1987 in Toronto, Ont.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Site structure, kinship, and sharing in Aboriginal Australia : implications for archaeology / Rob Gargett and Brian Hayden; title: The relationship between mobility strategies and site structure / Susan Kent; title: Distribution of refuse-producing activities at Hazda residential base camps : implications for analyses of archaeological site structure / James F. O'Connell, Kristen Hawkes and Nicholas Blurton Jones; title: Variability in camp structure and bone food refuse patterning at Kua San hunter-gatherer camps / Laurence E. Bartram, Ellen M. Kroll and Henry T. Bunn; title: Linking ethnoarchaeological interpretation and archaeological data : the sensitivity of spatial analytical methods to postdepositional disturbance / Susan A. Gregg, Keith W. Kintigh and Robert Whallon; title: Interpreting spatial patterns at the Grotte XV : a multiple-method approach / Jean-Philippe Rigaud and Jan F. Simek; title: Left in the dust : contextual information in model-focused archaeology / Christopher Carr; title: Tool use and spatial patterning : complications and solution / Lawrence H. Keeley; title: Beyond the formation of hearth-associated artifact assemblages / Marc G. Stevenson.