Seasonality and Sedentism

Archaeological Perspectives from Old and New World Sites

Edited by Thomas R. Rocek

Edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef

    The papers in this volume explore the issues and techniques of archaeological site seasonality and settlement analysis. Through a series of case studies and theoretical discussions, the papers examine a range of data from Europe (Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina), Southwest Asia (Israel), East Asia (Japan), North America (Southwest and Southeast United States), and South America (Colombia and Peru). These examples introduce a broad range of specific analytical techniques of seasonality assessment and show variability and similarity in settlement patterns worldwide. In the process, they demonstrate the range of regional traditions of archaeological settlement analysis, and the complementarity of the approaches developed in the different regions.

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Ofer Bar-Yosef is MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Harvard University.