Non-Linear Spatial Patterning in Cultural Site Formation Processes - The Evidence from Micro-Artefacts in Cores from a Neolithic Tell Site in Greece

Abstract

Micro-artefacts (i.e., cultural particles smaller than 2mm in diameter), due to their abun‐ dance and incorporation into the sedimentary matrix of an archaeological deposit, constitute a significant part of the cultural particles present [21]. Micro-artefact analysis is extensively complex due to the different micro-artefact categories that may appear in an archaeological context and also because of the numerous cultural (and non-cultural/natural) formation processes that may have been involved in the creation of characteristics specific to an ar‐ chaeological context.