LOL...does Lekson really have his rules? Sounds like early quantum entanglement.
He trashes the traditional archaeologists as being ineffectual
He gets right to the nitty gritty
You should read his work if you have an interest.
BTW
bert’s corollary
the kids moved away
the old folks died
it is true now
it was true then. the study of recent abandonment will yield the same results as the study of old abandonment