Analyzing Activity Areas: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Use of Space

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Author: Kent, Susan (1952-2003)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1984

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1:  Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.   Light edge and corner wear.  Appears unread.  Copy 2 (SR): Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Appears unused.

Notes: Kent’s revised doctoral dissertation.  All cultures make decisions about the use of space–food preparation, storage, sleeping, sick rooms, play spaces.          “The culturally determined use of space is so ingrained that people often express vague feelings of uneasiness and disorientation in situations where the spatial behavioral patterns differ from those to which they are accustomed.” (page 1).  Archaeologists and anthropologists make assumptions about that usage of space, which affects their analysis.  Remember Wesbrook’s First Law of Storage: “Any horizontal surface is soon covered.”