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Article: Historic maps and archaeology as a means of understanding late precolonial settlement in the Banda Islands, Indonesia.
- Article from:
- Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES OF SETTLEMENT PATTERNING have provided useful data for understanding the process of cross-cultural interaction in many parts of the world. These studies have highlighted how shifts in settlement locations, regional organization of settlements, and spatial relationships between settlements and resources can be linked to evidence for cross-cultural contact and interaction. Contextualizing other evidence about the process and effects of cross-cultural interaction with settlement pattern shifts often evokes more powerful explanations about how people accommodate foreigners in their lives (Cusick 1998; Insoll 1999; Kirch and Sahlins 1992; Ucko and Layton ...