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Discovering Architectural Patterning at a Complex Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles L. Redman  and
Ronald D. Anzalone
Charles L. Redman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NV 13901
Ronald D. Anzalone
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NV 13901
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Abstract

To enable systematic interpretive studies of community organization and population, two techniques are advocated: (1) a probability sampling technique for the selection of at least a portion of a site's excavation units and (2) the systematic recording of architectural space. A substantive example is drawn from the investigations of a historic period town in northern Morocco, Qsar es-Seghir. Analyses of architectural remains produced information on the overall nature of land use, general layout of the community, and two alternative methods of estimating population.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 1980 , pp. 284 - 290
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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