For a case study of the significance and contribution that a low visibility and low density can make to the field of historical archaeology and the new social history see:

The Dunlap Farmstead: The Archaeology of Rural Poverty and Farm Failure in Wood County, Ohio, During the Early Nineteenth Century, by Patrick M. Tucker and David M. Stothers (University of Toledo, Laboratory of Archaeology, Occasional Monographs No. 3, Toledo, Ohio, 2013).

Regards,

Pat Tucker

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>I am attempting to put a session together dealing with issues of evaluating ephemeral/low visibility sites for the NRHP in a CRM survey context.  The focus of my interest is the all too often assertion that a site is not potentially eligible due to a low artifact density.  I would be interested in all points of view.  Anyone interested please contact me off list
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>J Eric Deetz
>Coastal Carolina Research
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