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Archaeological Anthropology

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

1975

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Site Abandonment And The Archaeological Record: An Empirical Case For Anticipated Return, Charles M. Baker Jan 1975

Site Abandonment And The Archaeological Record: An Empirical Case For Anticipated Return, Charles M. Baker

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Cultural formation processes of abandonment are examined in light of recently discovered hammerstone caches at an aboriginal novaculite quarry site. De facto refuse formation is shown to vary according to the conditions under which site abandonment took place.


Mississippian Communities In The St. Francis Basin: A Central Place Model, Timothy C. Klinger Jan 1975

Mississippian Communities In The St. Francis Basin: A Central Place Model, Timothy C. Klinger

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The development of Mississippian settlement models for northeast Arkansas is reviewed. It is argued that a five-tier central place hierarchy best accounts for the variability currently known to exist among Mississippian communities in the St. Francis basin.