Landscapes of abandonment create an awe of mystique for humans from all walks of life. The most asked question is, ‘What caused this place to be abandoned?’. Taking an evolutionary theoretical concept of how colonialist commodification through imperialist capitalism created a World System Theory, the Table of Historical Abandonment model is born. This four-prong approach simplifies the causations of not only settlement sustainability, but of the culminating internal and external factors that ultimately lead to abandonment in a historical archaeological context. This model can provide insight into avenues of research into unknown realms of historical archaeology by making missing avenues of thought known as a needed echelon to be explored. A synergy is created between what is known of the abandoned mining Garnet Ghost Town outside of Missoula, Montana and what were the causations for the Norse abandonment of Greenland, showing an introductory exploration into the development and utilization of the Table of Historical Abandonment Model.