Child's Play: A Distorting Factor in Archaeological Distribution
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 46 (3) , 634-636
- https://doi.org/10.2307/280608
Abstract
Recent discussions of deposit formation and disturbance in archaeology ignore the possible perturbation of artifact distribution by children's play. Experimental data indicate some results of such activity, and suggest that it should be borne in mind when reconstructing behavior patterns based on depositional history.Keywords
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