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Despite the plethora of papers on consumer behavior recently published by historical archaeologists (e.g., Spencer-Wood, 1987b; Klein and LeeDecker, 1991; and various papers in Little and Shackel, 1992), and the frequency with which such papers are presented at national and regional conferences (e.g., Lees and Majewski, 1993; LeeDecker, 1993), few scholars have attempted to integrate interests in consumer behavior patterns with theories of material culture. Indeed, many of those works examine the effects of one variable, or the interactions of several variables, on the acquisition of certain kinds of material culture by individual households (e.g., Seifert, 1991).
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Gibb, J.G. (1996). Modeling the Consumer Behavior of the Colonists. In: The Archaeology of Wealth. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0345-9_3
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