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Settlement archaeology (German:Siedlungsarchäologie) is a branch of modern archaeology. It investigates former settlements and deserted areas, forms of housing and settlements, and the prehistoric settlement of entire regions.
Paleo-Indians. Heinrich Harder (1858–1935), c. 1920. The Paleo-Indians, also known as the Lithic peoples, are the earliest known settlers of the Americas; the period's name, the Lithic stage, derives from the appearance of lithic flaked stone tools. Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas ...
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Français. Settlement Archaeology—Its Goals and Promise. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017. Bruce G. Trigger. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Abstract. Settlement Archaeology is defined as the study of societal relationships using archaeological data.
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Mar 21, 2024 · Daily Correspondent. March 21, 2024. Archaeologists uncovered a trove of artifacts, including this scorched axe, from a Bronze Age settlement called Must Farm. Cambridge Archaeological Unit....
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Jun 8, 2023 · Chang ( 1968, 7) postulated that settlement patterns consist of both a ‘microstructure’ – the ‘culture and social structure of a settlement’ – and a ‘macrostructure’ – the ‘larger cultural and social system’. Having been trained in Mainland China, Taiwan, and the US, Chang’s views were informed by practices and materials ...
Mar 1, 2022 · The settlement—a place on a landscape where a human group lives and interacts—has become such a fundamental social and material concept in archaeology that it is rarely explicitly defined. The breadth of meaning built into the term allows it to transcend regional, temporal, and contextual differences in site form, size, and composition.
Jan 17, 2019 · Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy. A skull found at a ...
