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Abandonment and Post-Abandonment Behavior at a Rural Central American House-Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frederick W. Lange  and
Charles R. Rydberg
Frederick W. Lange
Affiliation:
Logan Museum, Beloit College
Charles R. Rydberg
Affiliation:
Logan Museum, Beloit College
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Abstract

Examination of a recently abandoned modern rural house-site in northern Costa Rica was undertaken in an attempt to gain insights into the absence of comparable sites from the Precolumbian archaeological record. The site was thoroughly described, a number of hypotheses based on artifactual evidence were advanced, and the former occupants were then interviewed. Abandonment and post-abandonment behavior by the occupants and others stongly influenced the material culture remains and potential archaeological data. The site had been subjected to a number of alterations and artifacts found were of the lowest retentive priority. A number of problems relevant to archaeological investigation at such sites were elucidated.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 419 - 432
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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