Historic Site Content, Structure, and Function

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2565652
AutoresStanley South (University of South Carolina, autor de correspondencia)
Año1979
Volumen44
Número2
Páginas213-237
Fecha de publicación1979-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/279073
OpenAlexW2326815379
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29
Referencias citadas11

Site content, structure, and function are examined using information drawn from historic sites, ethnographic observation, and modern material-culture studies in an effort to understand more about the relationship of past cultural systems to their material by-products. The elements of site content, such as artifacts, architecture, features, and strata, are examined in terms of their temporal and spatial dimensions in relation to site function.The importance of identification of use, form, function, condition, and size in relation to spatial pattern and associations is emphasized. Given the ability to control or identify site function, those of us working on historic sites can begin to recognize the site structure correlates of site function and thereby take our place alongside experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology in the development of general archaeological theory

Archaeology · Data mining · Ethnoarchaeology · Function (biology) · Geography · Historic site · Identification (biology) · Relation (database) · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Architecture · Computer Science · Ecology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology