Abandonment of settlements and regions : [electronic resource] ethnoarchaeological and archaeological approaches / edited by Catherine M. Cameron and Steve A. Tomka.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abandonment and archaeological interpretation / Catharine M. Cameron -- Site abandonment behavior among transhumant agro-pastoralists : the effects of delayed curation on assemblage composition / Steve A. Tomka -- Settlement organization and residential variability among the Rarámuri / Martha Graham -- Occupational and locational instability in arid land settlement / Lee Horne -- Models of abandonment and material culture frequencies / Susan Kent -- Agricultural abandonment : a comparative study in historical ecology / Glenn Davis Stone -- Local abandonments and regional conditions in the North American Southwest / Sarah H. Schlanger and Richard H. Wilshusen -- An assessment of abandonment processes in the Hohokam Classic Period of the Tucson Basin / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish.

Regional settlement abandonment at the end of the Copper Age in the lowlands of West-Central Portugal / Katina Lillios -- Abandonment at Zuni farming villages / Nan A. Rothschild ... [et al.] -- Abandonment and the production of archaeological variability at domestic sites / Arthur A. Joyce and Sissel Johannessen -- Ceramic analysis as a tool for discovering processes of pueblo abandonment / Barbara Klie Montgomery -- Abandonment processes in prehistoric pueblos / Ricky R. Lightfoot -- Household abandonment among sedentary Plains societies : behavioral sciences and consequences in the interpretation of the archaeological record / Robert L. Brooks -- Understanding abandonment processes : summary and remaining concerns / Steve A. Tomka and Marc G. Stevenson.