Abandonment and Post-Abandonment Behavior at a Rural Central American House-Site
- 1 July 1972
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 37 (3) , 419-432
- https://doi.org/10.2307/278440
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.Keywords
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