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Re: Swept Yards
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"Thomas H. Eubanks, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:56:58 -0600
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At 03:37 PM 2/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone investigated the practice of sweeping the yard around a house?
>The recently-published report of a house site at Manssas NBP, Virginia,
>mentions the practice. Artifacts were virtually absent around the house,
>but were found more than fifty feet away, probably because the yard was
>swept. Has this phenomenon been noticed in the archaeological record
>elsewhere?
>
 
 
Thomas H. Eubanks, Ph.D.
State Archaeologist
 
Division of Archaeology
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