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Refuse Assemblages

Refuse Assemblages is a methodological construct in urban material culture studies that systematically organizes discarded materials and waste artifacts into analyzable collections to investigate patterns of consumption, social behavior, and material lifecycles within urban environments.

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47

Authors

25

Institutions

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2017–2026

2

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Publications

33

Is There a "Pompeii Premise" in Archaeology?

Michael Brian Schiffer · Journal of Anthropological Research · 1985 · 233 citations

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Garbage in the cities: refuse, reform, and the environment

Choice Reviews Online · 2005 · 133 citations

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The Garbage Crisis in prehistory: artefact discard patterns at the Early Natufian site of Wadi Hammeh 27 and the origins of household refuse disposal strategies

Tania Hardy-Smith, Phillip C. Edwards · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · 2004 · 102 citations

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Refuse and the formation of middens

Stuart Needham, Tony Spence · Antiquity · 1997 · 95 citations

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Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment

Carl A. Zimring · The Public Historian · 2005 · 84 citations

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Authors

47

  1. MV
    Martin V. Melosi

    University of Houston, United States

    4 publications · 210 citations

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  2. CA
    Carl A. Zimring

    Pratt Institute, United States

    2 publications · 116 citations

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  3. RT
    Robert Todd Perdue

    Elon University, United States

    1 publications · 22 citations

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  4. JP
    J. P. Tordoff

    Minnesota Historical Society, United States

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  5. PH
    Paul Halstead

    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 21 citations

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Institutions

25

  1. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    140 citations

  2. University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    160 citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    63 citations

  4. Parsons (United States)

    Chantilly, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    49 citations

  5. Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    70 citations

  6. Weizmann Institute of Science

    Rehovot, Israel

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    70 citations

  7. Michigan Technological University

    Houghton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    32 citations

  8. Southern Methodist University

    Dallas, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    75 citations

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Venues

  1. American Antiquity

    5 publications · 270 citations

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  2. Historical Archaeology

    2 publications · 61 citations

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  3. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

    2 publications · 86 citations

    2

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  4. Lithic Technology

    1 publications · 32 citations

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  5. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

    1 publications · 102 citations

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