Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape
Research on hunting and gathering peoples has given anthropologists a long-standing conceptual framework of sedentism and mobility based on seasonality and ecological constraints. This work challenges that position by arguing that mobility is a socially negotiated activity and that neither mobility...
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| description | Research on hunting and gathering peoples has given anthropologists a long-standing conceptual framework of sedentism and mobility based on seasonality and ecological constraints. This work challenges that position by arguing that mobility is a socially negotiated activity and that neither mobility nor sedentism can be understood outside of its social context. Drawing on research in the Mesa Verde region that focuses on communities and households, Mark Varien expands the social, spatial, and temporal scales of archaeological analysis to propose a new model for population movement. Rather than viewing sedentism and mobility as opposing concepts, he demonstrates that they were separate strategies that were simultaneously employed. Households moved relatively frequently--every one or two generations--but communities persisted in the same location for much longer. Varien shows that individuals and households negotiated their movements in a social landscape structured by these permanent communities. Varien's research clearly demonstrates the need to view agriculturalists from a perspective that differs from the hunter-gatherer model. This innovative study shows why current explanations for site abandonment cannot by themselves account for residential mobility and offers valuable insights into the archaeology of small-scale agriculture. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1432362024-08-27T04:19:19Z Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape Varien, Mark D. Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities. Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. Residential mobility -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.) Duckfoot Site (Colo.) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Research on hunting and gathering peoples has given anthropologists a long-standing conceptual framework of sedentism and mobility based on seasonality and ecological constraints. This work challenges that position by arguing that mobility is a socially negotiated activity and that neither mobility nor sedentism can be understood outside of its social context. Drawing on research in the Mesa Verde region that focuses on communities and households, Mark Varien expands the social, spatial, and temporal scales of archaeological analysis to propose a new model for population movement. Rather than viewing sedentism and mobility as opposing concepts, he demonstrates that they were separate strategies that were simultaneously employed. Households moved relatively frequently--every one or two generations--but communities persisted in the same location for much longer. Varien shows that individuals and households negotiated their movements in a social landscape structured by these permanent communities. Varien's research clearly demonstrates the need to view agriculturalists from a perspective that differs from the hunter-gatherer model. This innovative study shows why current explanations for site abandonment cannot by themselves account for residential mobility and offers valuable insights into the archaeology of small-scale agriculture. 2024-08-27T04:19:18Z 2024-08-27T04:19:18Z 2024-08-15T11:39:41Z 1999 book ONIX_20240815_9780816548811_40 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92800 9780816548811 9780816519040 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143236 eng open access image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92800/1/9780816548811.epub University of Arizona Press University of Arizona Press fe2167e9-9179-40da-be48-8146f68f8f24 9780816548811 9780816519040 University of Arizona Press 296 open access |
| spellingShingle | Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities. Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. Residential mobility -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.) Duckfoot Site (Colo.) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Varien, Mark D. Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape |
| title | Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape |
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| topic | Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities. Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. Residential mobility -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.) Duckfoot Site (Colo.) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
| topic_facet | Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities. Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. Residential mobility -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.) Duckfoot Site (Colo.) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
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