“…Analysis of such spatial groupings is critical for understanding a wide variety of social phenomena including gender relations, loci and modes of production, social hierarchy and heterarchy, ethnicity, and demography (M. S. Blake, 1988;Deal, 1988;Hammel, 1980;Hammel and Laslett, 1974;Haviland, 1985;Cannon, 1983, 1984;Hendon, 1996;Laslett, 1969;Laslett and Wall, 1972;McAnany, 1995;Nakane, 1970;Netting, 1965Netting, , 1993Netting et al, 1984;Robin, 1999;Tourtellot, 1988;Webster and Gonlin, 1988;Wilk and Ashmore, 1988;Wilk, 1983Wilk, , 1985Wilk, , 1989Wilk, , 1991Yanagisako, 1979). This broad scope of work, however, depends largely on physical analyses of the data recovered in excavation, whether on the macroscopic or microscopic level.…”