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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.
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
Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk [cha-TAL-hu-yook]; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which ...
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.
Jun 8, 2023 · When it comes to settlement archaeology, archaeologists around the world face similar issues, including practical aspects of fieldwork and conceptual issues of data interpretation. What is a site? Which methods of fieldwork and data analysis enable archaeologists to gain a deep understanding of entire regions?
Archaeology of Samoa began with the first systematic survey of archaeological remains on Savai'i island by Jack Golson in 1957. [1] Since then, surveys and studies in the rest of Samoa have uncovered major findings of settlements, stone and earth mounds including star mounds, Lapita pottery remains and pre-historic artifacts.
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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.
