The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches (New Directions in Archaeology)

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. Abandonment and archaeological interpretation -- Catharine M. Cameron Site abandonment behavior among transhumant agro-pastoralists : the effects of delayed curation on assemblage composition -- Steve A. Tomka Settlement organization and residential variability among the Rarámuri -- Martha Graham Occupational and locational instability in arid land settlement -- Lee Horne Models of abandonment and material culture frequencies -- Susan Kent Agricultural abandonment : a comparative study in historical ecology -- Glenn Davis Stone Local abandonments and regional conditions in the North American Southwest -- Sarah H. Schlanger and Richard H. Wilshusen An assessment of abandonment processes in the Hohokam Classic Period of the Tucson Basin -- Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish. Regional settlement abandonment at the end of the Copper Age in the lowlands of West-Central Portugal -- Katina Lillios Abandonment at Zuni farming villages -- Nan A. Rothschild ... [et al.] Abandonment and the production of archaeological variability at domestic sites -- Arthur A. Joyce and Sissel Johannessen Ceramic analysis as a tool for discovering processes of pueblo abandonment -- Barbara Klie Montgomery Abandonment processes in prehistoric pueblos -- Ricky R. Lightfoot Household abandonment among sedentary Plains societies : behavioral sciences and consequences in the interpretation of the archaeological record -- Robert L. Brooks Understanding abandonment processes : summary and remaining concerns -- Steve A. Tomka and Marc G. Stevenson. Abandonment conjures up images of catastrophe, mass migration, and environmental crisis.