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Defining and Measuring Midden Catchment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James L. Boone III
James L. Boone III*
Affiliation:
Texas Archeological Research laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Balcones Research Center, 10,100 Burnet Rd., Austin, TX 78758
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Abstract

The settlement area that encompasses all the refuse-generating activities that contribute to a single midden may be referred to as a midden's "catchment." Two related issues are explored with respect to the problem of measuring midden catchment: 1) the relation between settlement density, midden size, and distribution, and midden catchment; and 2) the relation between the heterogeneity of a midden's contents and its catchment.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 336 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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