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Further Reading in Regional Survey
Prehispanic defensive walls at the Mitla Fortress, Oaxaca, Mexico

Prehispanic defensive walls at the Mitla Fortress, Oaxaca, Mexico

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Alcock, S. E., and Cherry, J. F. (eds.) (2004) Side-by-side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Ammerman, A. J. (1981). Surveys and archaeological research. Annual Review of Anthropology 10:63-88.

Balkansky, A. K. (2006). Surveys and Mesoamerican archaeology: The emerging macroregional paradigm. Journal of Archaeological Research 14:53-95.

Billman, B. R., and Feinman, G. M. (eds.), (1999). Settlement Pattern Studies in the Americas: Fifty Years Since Viru. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Blanton, R. E. (2004). Settlement pattern and population change in Mesoamerican and Mediterranean civilizations: A comparative perspective. In Alcock, S. E., and Cherry, J. F. (eds.), Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World, Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 206-240.

Drennan, R. D., and Peterson, C. E. (2005). Early chiefdom communities compared: The settlement pattern record for Chifeng, the Alto Magdalena, and the Valley of Oaxaca. In Blanton, R. E. (ed.), Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Complexity: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Jeffrey R. Parsons, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, pp. 119-154.

Feinman, G. M., Nicholas, L. M., and Fang Hui (2010). The imprint of China's first emperor on the distant realm of eastern Shandong. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 4851-4856.

Feinman, G. M., (2001). Settlement and landscape archaeology. In Smelser, N. J. and Baltes, P. B. (eds.), International encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon, Oxford, pp. 13937-13941.

Fish, S. K., and Kowalewski, S. A. (eds.) (2009). The Archaeology of Regions: A Case for Full-Coverage Survey. Clinton Corners, New York.

Galaty, M. L. (2005). European regional studies: A coming of age. Journal of Archaeological Research 13:291-336.

Kowalewski, S. A. (2003). Scale and the explanation of demographic changeScale and the explanation of demographic change: 3,500 years in the Valley of Oaxaca. American Anthropologist 105:313-325.

Kowalewski, S. A. (2008). Regional settlement pattern studies. Journal of Archaeological Research 16:225-285.

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