Abstract
The major goal of this research is to deliberate the analogies in Archaeology, especially on the studies of aboriginal abandonment settlements. A fundamental problem is that archaeologists paid more attention to the mapping and description of the artifacts but lack of “behavior”. In order to provide better analogies to assist in the interpretation of archaeological records, I chose the domestic houses for my study object, and used ethnoarchaeological method to collect the behavioral models from the descendants of aborigine who occupied the same place before. The Skadang tribe locates in the valley, which is near the skadang branch of Li-Wu River in the east of Taiwan. Aboriginal people still cultivated the land here in tradition way in these years. By joining in their usual work and activities, I stayed on Skadang tribe more than six months to record their household activities, and then took the survey around the tribe and excavated five test pits. With the behavioral parallels, the site structure analysis of the survey data indicates that there were three stages of occupation in the past. From my case study, not only it offers the interpretation that combines “behavior” and “artifacts”, but also reminders us the limits of the continuous analogy in Archaeology.