Introduction. Abandonment and archaeological interpretation / Catharine M. Cameron -- Regional abandonment processes : ethnoarchaeological cases. Site abandonment behavior among transhumant agro-pastoralists : the effects of delayed curation on assemblage composition / Steve A. Tomka ; Settlement organization and residential variability among the Rarámuri / Martha Graham ; Occupational and locational instability in arid land settlement / Lee Horne ; Models of abandonment and material culture frequencies / Susan Kent ; Agricultural abandonment : a comparative study in historical ecology / Glenn Davis Stone -- Regional abandonment processes : archaeological cases. Local abandonments and regional conditions in the North American Southwest / Sarah H. Schlanger and Richard H. Wilshusen ; An assessment of abandonment processes in the Hohokam Classic Period of the Tucson Basin / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish ; Regional settlement abandonment at the end of the Copper Age in the lowlands of West-Central Portugal / Katina Lillios -- Abandonment processes within sites : ethnoarchaeological cases. Abandonment at Zuni farming villages / Nan A. Rothschild [and others] ; Abandonment and the production of archaeological variability at domestic sites / Arthur A. Joyce and Sissel Johannessen -- Abandonment processes within sites : archaeological cases. Ceramic analysis as a tool for discovering processes of pueblo abandonment / Barbara Klie Montgomery -- Abandonment processes in prehistoric pueblos / Ricky R. Lightfoot ; Household abandonment among sedentary Plains societies : behavioral sciences and consequences in the interpretation of the archaeological record / Robert L. Brooks -- Conclusions. Understanding abandonment processes : summary and remaining concerns / Steve A. Tomka and Marc G. Stevenson.