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Child's Play: A Distorting Factor in Archaeological Distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gawain Hammond  and
Norman Hammond
Gawain Hammond
Affiliation:
10 Pelham St., Princeton, NJ 08540
Norman Hammond
Affiliation:
Archaeological Research Program, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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Abstract

Recent discussions of deposit formation and disturbance in archaeology ignore the possible perturbation of artifact distribution by children's play. Experimental data indicate some results of such activity, and suggest that it should be borne in mind when reconstructing behavior patterns based on depositional history.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 634 - 636
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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