Abstract
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the past few years have been trying to get at another angle of the characters of their extinct societies through detailed investigation of settlement patterns. In settlement patterns they have raised a series of questions with respect to societies and cultures, their histories and developmental levels;2 for archaeology excludes neither the smallest camp or cave nor the greatest civilization. The questions include everything from types of dwellings and their disposition with relation to each other and other structures, to basic classificatory problems of what constitutes a city? a town? The archaeologists' underlying objective, of course, is to reconstruct with greater clarity the extinct cultures and come closer to definition of societies which once enlivened the sites.
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