Description: "Open-air sites are difficult for researchers to locate and difficult to interpret; containing superimposed events often showing only the most recent. Overcoming limitations of data and poor preservation, using prior research and new analytical tools, and diverging from a one-size-fits-all interpretation, offers fresh insight into formation and taphonomy of open-air sites"--
Review Quotes: "Scholars of hunter-gatherer societies that existed in deep time will find the case studies in this volume instructive and compelling. These researchers take on some of the most challenging types of sites and show how, with nuanced methods, such work can broaden our understanding of the ancient past."
--Victor Thompson, University of Georgia
--Journal of Anthropological Research