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Reply to Richard T. Smith

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gregory Knapp
Gregory Knapp*
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Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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Abstract

The distinction between embanked and sunken fields is not merely semantic. There is good evidence for frequent flooding at Chilca. Archaeostratigraphy provides neither privileged nor unambiguous evidence for original field function. The full range of environmental, archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence is more consistent with the embanked-field theory than with Smith’s alternative.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 1983, pp. 150 - 151
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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