I'm beginning to explore settlement pattern analysis and hunter-gatherer subsistence. I went to a session at the SAA's of papers in honor of James F. O'Connell, and it pretty much blew my mind. I feel kind of like I've started down an overgrown path in a dense forest, I have no idea which way to turn.

So far I have pulled Gordon Willey's Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the New World, Brian Billman and Gary Feinman's Settlement pattern studies in the Americas: fifty years since Viru, a number of J.F. O'Connell papers, and of course some of Binford's stuff.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any perspective on the stuff I'm missing entirely (clearly the post-processual perspective)?