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Settlement archaeology. 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.
Settlement Archaeology is defined as the study of societal relationships using archaeological data. A separate approach is required because of the inadequacy of the concept of “phase” or “culture” for the investigation of this sort of problem.
- Bruce G. Trigger
- 1967
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.
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 ...
SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND LANDSCAPES. The archaeology of settlements has grown progressively in its scope and methodology over the long history of the discipline, so that the modern study possesses a wide range of topics and approaches. The general public is still naturally fascinated by images and reconstructions of monumental, nondomestic sites ...
Settlement Archae- ing of a community. Except among hunting- ology could conceivably be an important bridge and-gathering groups, where several sites may be between archaeology and ethnology. occupied in the course of a single year and bands The limitations are, of course, obvious.
Nov 1, 2015 · Settlement pattern and landscape approaches are central to the. mission of contemporary archaeology ( Kowalewski, 2008; Renfrew, 2003, p. 313; Sabloff and Ashmore, 2001, p. 14). Through ...
