期刊名称：SAA Archaeological Record, The : The magazine of the Society for American Archaeology
印刷版ISSN：1532-7299
出版年度：2006
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：37-37
出版社：Society for American Archaeology
摘要：Archaeologists often use the term ¡°abandonment¡± imprecisely
and speciously. The way this phrase is used in
contemporary archaeological discourse is problematic,
we argue, for two fundamental reasons. First, ¡°abandonment,¡±
as it is applied to archaeological contexts, recurrently masks a
range of human behaviors, often reducing complex processes
to a single event. Second, the phrase¡ªin its colloquial, legal,
and academic usage¡ªsignifies that people give up their claims
and interests to a place when they move away. Although communities
certainly do abandon locales and consequently surrender
their claims and interests, this is not always the case.
These points will be explained, drawing on examples from the
Southwestern U.S., where scholars frequently discuss the
abandonment of cultural landscapes, sites, and features.
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