Many human settlements are well-defined types associated to various geographic locations, and these sites can be referred as open sites, lakeside sites, cave sites, valley sites, foothill sites, and so on. The above-men… See more

Habitation sites are the most important sites because people have lived and carried out a multitude of activities at the place. The most commonly excavated sites are the places where people lived and these sites … See more

A number of trading sites have been reported from a few places, though it is difficult to recognise them with certainty. Sites centrally situated between the Maya and Aztec areas have been identified as ports of tra… See more

In archaeological terms, a quarry or mine site is where there was evidence of material, such as stone or metal ore were mined for use as building material or for tool manufacture. Quarries are interesting to archaeologi… See more