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Binford's Hunting Stand Hypothesis and the Joint Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael B. Schiffer*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

Abstract

Lewis R. Binford has recently disputed the inference, advanced in Behavioral Archeology, that the inhabitants of the Joint Site hunted more often during the last years of the site's occupation. As an alternative he suggests that the site was used after abandonment as a hunting camp. These conclusions, which stem from a misunderstanding of the nature and purpose of the analytic units employed in the Joint Site study, are shown to be without substantial foundation.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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