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

All archaeological sites have been abandoned, but people abandoned sites in many different ways, and for different reasons. What they did when leaving a settlement, structure, or activity area had a direct effect on the kind and quality of the cultural remains entering the archaeological record - for example, whether tools were removed, destroyed, or buried in the ground, and building structures dismantled or left standing. This is the first book to examine abandonment as a stage in the formation of an archaeological site, and relies on ethnoarchaelogical and archaeological data from many areas of the world - North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Near East.Catherine M. Cameron is the author of 'The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches (New Directions in Archaeology)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780521433334 and ISBN 0521433339.