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Jeffrey R. Parsons

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Definition: Jeffrey R. Parsons is an American archaeologist, one of the pioneer investigators of the use of settlement patterns, most particularly on Aztec period sites in the Basin of Mexico. Long a professor of anthropology and currently Curator of Latin America Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Parsons has conducted work in Central Mexico, Peru, and Argentina.

Parsons, Jeffrey R. Prehistoric settlement patterns in the Texcoco region, Mexico. Memoirs 3. 1971. Ann Arbor, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1972 Archaeological settlement patterns. Annual Review of Anthropology 1127-150.

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