Identifying Transient Sites in the Archaeological Record
Author(s): Mark Walker
Year: 2018
Summary
A central problem in constructing an archaeology of transient populations is identifying the archaeological signatures of these populations. For example. transient sites look very much like refuse deposits and usually lack a firm historical association. In this paper, I focus on rural transients in California, and, using a sample of previous recorded sites, present preliminary research on distinguishing potential transient sites from other rural deposits. This research does not offer any silver bullets for identifying transient sites, but does give some red flags where the possibility should be considered more closely.
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Identifying Transient Sites in the Archaeological Record. Mark Walker. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441360)
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Keywords
General
homelessness
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transient labor
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US West
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 899