Beyond the Formation of Hearth-Associated Artifact Assemblages

摘要: Ethnoarchaeological investigations have recently shown that cultural formation processes contribute significantly to the structure of modern hunter-gatherer campsites. One more important findings this research has been discovery sorting artifacts according size determines, a large extent, their final spatial distribution around hut and hearth. Given variety ethnographic settings (e.g., Binford 1978, 1983; O’Connell 1979, 1987; Meehan 1982; Yellen 1977; Jarvenpa Brumbach Gifford Brehensmeyer 1977) experimental studies Gifford-Gonzalez et al. 1985; Stockton 1973; Courtin Villa 1983) in which size-dependent by human activity documented there is little reason believe process was not operative past. Prehistoric people, after all, faced many same life-space problems challenges hunter-gatherers do today (Binford 1983). For thousands years, refuse had be managed living areas maintained minimize interference with performance. In short, I would submit within domestic intensively occupied may one few recurrent phenomena we can expect find at