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Christopher Witmore |"Sites, if we mean by that term places of habitation and special-purpose activities (e.g., animal folds, storage buildings), are identifiable, at least in Greece, as specific places in the countryside… Our working definition of a site was “any location with ancient features such as architectural remains, or a concentration of cultural materials, e.g., artifacts, ecofacts, or manuports, could be identified, having a recognizable boundary” (see also Plog et. al., 1978)… The term ‘site’ is thus nothing more than a convenient way to designate a locality where cultural materials were found, apparently belonging together. Thus a grave only a few square meters in area was called a site, just as was a walled settlement many hectares in extent. Our definition of site included isolated features, such as a well or an inscription, but was intended to exclude materials deposited or distributed solely by natural processes" (Jameson, Runnels, and van Andel 1994, 221).
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