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Ref ID: 31835
Ref Type: Journal Article
Authors: Close, Angela E.
Title: Reconstructing movement in prehistory
Date: 2000
Source: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Abstract: Movement is a universal part of human life. However, it normally leaves no material trace, so movements made in the past are difficult to investigate. Refitting artifacts across unusually long distances provides a robust method of reconstructing individual acts of movement. When there are multiple individual movements, it is possible to reconstruct patterns of movement, and to differentiate between different types of movement made for different purposes, even in prehistory.
Date Created: 10/19/2003
Volume: 7
Number: 1
Page Start: 49
Page End: 77