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The Social Context of Trash Disposal in an Early Dynastic Egyptian Town

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael A. Hoffman
Michael A. Hoffman*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia,Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Abstract

The study of trash, although long in the forefront of actual archaeological research, has seldom been conducted in such a way as to emphasize the social and cultural context of the rules governing trash disposal. Evidence from the Early Dynastic town site of Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt is used to support the contention that a knowledge of human patterns of trash disposal can be a valuable tool in the study of the composition and functioning of "urban" centers, as well as of general use in interpreting archaeological remains.

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American Antiquity , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 35 - 50
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1974

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