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This project presents data from a month long archaeological survey of refuse conducted on a university campus in New York City and uses it in conjunction with conventional theoretical methods applied to the analysis of the material culture. The previous archaeological analyses of secondary aggregates or deposit sites in which localized, high concentrations of refuse are examined, provide hypotheses regarding human behavioral patterns (Johnson 1999) and serve as a comparative model from which to...
Too Loud a Solitude: Landfills in the Landscape (2015)
In this paper, we examine the role of landfills in the construction of landscape. Landfills represent ambiguous spaces where material remains of human action are disposed and forgotten. They tend to be hidden from the view of persons passing by and only those who gone astray might encounter these blind spots on the map. Yet, landfills are well known to the professionals who plan and manage large amounts of waste to transform it into a new kind of assemblage that shapes landscape. In contrast to...