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A Measure of Settlement Pattern Change and Stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael C. Robbins and
Richard A. Diehl
Michael C. Robbins
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO 65201
Richard A. Diehl
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO 65201
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Abstract

A counting index of the average degree of extreme settlement pattern change and stability is presented. Data from regional archaeological settlement pattern surveys in the Basin of Mexico are used to illustrate it.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 1980, pp. 277 - 283
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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