Remnant Settlement Patterns
Remnant Settlement Patterns
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残余聚落模式
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4899-2450-6_10
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
K. McBride
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作者：
R. Dewar;K. McBride
传统的聚落格局分析确实存在方法论和理论上的困难，特别是当它被定义为“景观中站点分布”的分析时。本卷的所有撰稿人，以这样或那样的方式，都在寻求更令人满意和富有成效的方式来理解和解释考古材料的空间分布。有许多方法可以改进空间分析方法，我们在这里概述的方法只是其中一种。我们的方法，我们称之为“残余聚落模式分析”，侧重于过去人们使用地点的时空动态以及这些动态随时间变化的方式。我们正在寻求一套概念和方法（例如，Dewar 1986, 1992），以避免因关注“地点”而产生的许多困难（参见Dunnell，本卷和1988；Binford，本卷；Camilli 1988）。尽管如此，我们的努力在某种程度上是对传统定居模式方法的阐述和改革，考古学家试图解释他们发现人工制品集中的地方的分布——所谓的“遗址”——在一个景观中重建古代文化系统的动态，估计人口密度，并监测这些随时间的变化。
There are real methodological and theoretical difficulties inherent in classical settlement pattern analysis, especially when it is defined as the analysis of “the distribution of sites across a landscape.” All of the contributors to this volume, in one fashion or another, are seeking more satisfactory and productive ways of understanding and interpreting spatial distributions of archaeological materials. There are many ways to refine methods of spatial analysis, and the approach we outline here is but one. Our approach, which we call “remnant settlement pattern analysis” focuses on the spatial and temporal dynamics of past people’s use of places and the way those dynamics changed through time. We are seeking a set of concepts and approaches (e. g., Dewar 1986, 1992) that avoid many of the difficulties that are created by a focus on “sites” (cf. Dunnell, this volume and 1988; Binford, this volume; Camilli 1988). Nonetheless, our effort is in some ways an elaboration and reform of the traditional approach to settlement patterns, where archaeologists attempt to interpret the distribution of the places where they find concentrations of artifacts—so-called “sites”—across a landscape to reconstruct the dynamics of ancient cultural systems, estimate population density, and monitor changes in these over time.