Space, Time, and Archaeological Landscapes

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Concepts, Methods, and Theory Building

      • Jacqueline Rossignol

      Pages 3-16

3. Concepts and a Scientific Archaeology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-19

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   2. The Notion Site

      • Robert C. Dunnell

      Pages 21-41

   3. Seeing the Present and Interpreting the Past—and Keeping Things Straight

      • Lewis R. Binford

      Pages 43-59

4. The Spatial Dimension of Archaeological Landscapes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-64

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   2. Archaeological Landscapes

      • Claudia Chang

      Pages 65-89

   3. Recognizing Persistent Places in Anasazi Settlement Systems

      • Sarah H. Schlanger

      Pages 91-112

   4. Artifact Reuse and Recycling in Continuous Surface Distributions and Implications for Interpreting Land Use Patterns

      • Eileen L. Camilli, James I. Ebert

      Pages 113-136

   5. Landscape Scale

      • C. Russell Stafford, Edwin R. Hajic

      Pages 137-161

5. The Temporal Dimension of Archaeological Landscapes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-165

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   2. Chronological Resolution in Distributional Archaeology

      • George T. Jones, Charlotte Beck

      Pages 167-192

   3. Archaeological Landscapes, Lithic Scatters, and Human Behavior

      • Marek Zvelebil, Stanton W. Green, Mark G. Macklin

      Pages 193-226

   4. Remnant Settlement Patterns

      • Robert E. Dewar, Kevin A. McBride

      Pages 227-255

   5. The Spatial Dimension of Time

      • LuAnn Wandsnider

      Pages 257-282

6. Postscript and Prospectus

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      Pages 283-283

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   2. Archaeological Landscape Studies

      • LuAnn Wandsnider

      Pages 285-292

7. Back Matter

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The last 20 years have witnessed a proliferation of new approaches in archaeolog­ ical data recovery, analysis, and theory building that incorporate both new forms of information and new methods for investigating them. The growing importance of survey has meant an expansion of the spatial realm of traditional archaeological data recovery and analysis from its traditional focus on specific locations on the landscape-archaeological sites-to the incorporation of data both on-site and off-site from across extensive regions. Evolving survey methods have led to experiments with nonsite and distributional data recovery as well as the critical evaluation of the definition and role of archaeological sites in data recovery and analysis. In both survey and excavation, the geomorphological analysis of land­ scapes has become increasingly important in the analysis of archaeological ma­ terials. Ethnoarchaeology-the use of ethnography to sharpen archaeological understanding of cultural and natural formation processes-has concentrated study on the formation processes underlying the content and structure of archae­ ological deposits. These actualistic studies consider patterns of deposition at the site level and the material results of human organization at the regional scale. Ethnoarchaeological approaches have also affected research in theoretical ways by expanding investigation into the nature and organization of systems of land use per se, thus providing direction for further study of the material results of those systems.

• archaeology
• artifact
• concept
• interpret
• landscape
• present
• settlement
• structure
• time
• will

• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

  Jacqueline Rossignol

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

  LuAnn Wandsnider

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