Settlement Pattern Studies in the Americas
Fifty Years since Virú
Gary M Feinman editor Brian R Billman editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Smithsonian Books
Published:31st Dec '99
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Seventeen distinguished scholars recount the history of settlement pattern archaeology and detail case studies ranging from Alaska to Oaxaca to Peru. The chapters grow out of papers prepared for a symposium at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in New Orleans in April 1996, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Virú Valley survey.
'[A]n important and successful book. . . . [I]t provides a fine overview of what settlement pattern archaeology has contributed to anthropology in the Americas.' (Jeffrey R. Parsons, American Antiquity)
'Readers will find the case-studies especially useful for their excellent and well-illustrated reviews of previous research, along with the presentation of new data and analyses. Also important are issues cross-cutting the individual case-studies.' (Deborah L. Nichols, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)
'The studies in this volume . . . demonstrate the utility of the [settlement pattern] approach and how it has expanded over the last half-century. . . . [I]ncludes state-of-the-art work.' (Robert Santley, Canadian Journal of Anthropological Research)
'This set of papers is strong and represents some of the success stories in site-organized settlement pattern work. . . . [A] credit to the grand impact of the family of settlement archaeology approaches in our discipline.' (Barbara L. Stark, American Anthropologist)
ISBN: 9781560988267
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 933g
264 pages