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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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 899