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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"sedentism"”.
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Sedentism among the Archaic fisher-folk of northern Chile: A malacological perspective
… seasonality of resources and its relationship to sedentism. This finding may be important to future arguments for fully sedentary Chinchorro communities.
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Origins of sedentism: possible roles of ideology and shamanism in the transition
… by ambitious, influential individuals using sedentism as a strategy to achieve social control and the power, status and appropriated wealth (labour and resources) this engendered. A key factor in this was the materialisation of ideology, making visible the supernatural. Exploration of the …
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Origins of sedentism: possible roles of ideology and shamanism in the transition
… by ambitious, influential individuals using sedentism as a strategy to achieve social control and the power, status and appropriated wealth (labour and resources) this engendered. A key factor in this was the materialisation of ideology, making visible the supernatural. Exploration of the …
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People, Places, and Plants: An Appraisal of Subsistence, Technology and Sedentism in the Eastern Woodlands
The transition from foraging to farming has cross-culturally been associated with major changes in human technology, settlement patterns and social organization. This research project tests these relationships among prehistoric human populations inhabiting the Eastern Woodlands by considering how …
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The Small Animals of Maasai Settlements: Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of the Commensalism Model
… environments could be used to detect early sedentism in the archaeological record. The validity of the model has been questioned due to the lack of empirical knowledge on commensalism in a wide range of settlement environments including sedentary and more mobile ones. This study examined the …
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Lithic analysis of three Lowland Virgin Anasazi sites
… reveal a temporal trend toward increasing sedentism at the early to middle Pueblo II interfacing time period. This finding may be important to future arguments for fully sedentary Virgin Anasazi communities.
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Indigenous pottery from Sonora, Mexico: examining typologies and spatial distribution
… nascent pottery production, agriculture, and sedentism and (2) the state’s prehistoric connectivity with the Southwest/Northwest and Mesoamerica. Systematic analysis of ceramics from the entire state provides critical information for answering these large-scale questions.</p>
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Money, magic and fear : identity and exchange amongst the Orang Suku Laut (sea nomads) and other groups of Riau and Batam, Indonesia.
… towards Islam, as opposed to a life of sedentism guided by the Islamic religion. This thesis explores how this self and other perceptions which have shaped the image of the Orang Suku Laut, have become enmeshed in the exchange economy of the Orang Suku Laut and the Malays.
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Fremont Storage and Mobility: Changing Forms Through Time
… that there was a general trend of increasing sedentism through time for the Fremont, although this trend varies in degree through three general time periods and in three geographic areas. Further, the data was analyzed to determine whether there was significant spatial or temporal patterning …
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Urban Herders: An Archaeological and Isotopic Investigation into the Roles of Mobility and Subsistence Specialization in an Iron Age Urban Center in Mali
… reveal complex relationships among mobility, sedentism, and the livestock economy of Jenné-jeno, one of the earliest and best known urban systems in sub-Saharan Africa (occupied ca. 250 BC to AD 1400). Drawing on excavations at the ancient city of Jenné-jeno and those conducted at two …
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Population variation within the Iron Age of southern Africa: an assessment using dental anthropological and cranio-mandibular metric techniques
… elaborate pottery styles and increased sedentism appears abruptly in areas previously inhabited by hunter-gatherers and herders during the Early Iron Age (EIA) of southern Africa from around 250CE. Ceramic evidence connects these (cultural) populations to the second millennium Iron Age …
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Unsettled Settlements: Continuity and change in the Marakwet habitation of the northern Elgeyo Escarpment, northwest Kenya, from c. 1850 to the present-day
… both to the understanding of the ‘shifting sedentism’ which characterises Marakwet settlement specifically, and to broader ideas concerning how we might study localised mobility and multi-scalar affectivity within sedentary settlement systems across sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, it feeds …
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Mapping and Radiocarbon Dating Archaic Period Monuments: La Alberca Structure Complex, Highland Michoacán, Mexico
… for maize. It follows to hypothesize that sedentism, social ranking, and ritual structures would also develop very early within this region. The Late Archaic ritual burial in La Alberca Rockshelter and the earlier structures of the La Alberca Complex predate similar developments in the …
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Scourge or Sustenance: Using microfauna to explore the palaeoenvironment and palaeoeconomics of Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic communities in Anatolia.
… at either Boncuklu or Pınarbaşı indicating sedentism, and to establish if any of the species recovered were utilised in ritual practices, as has been previously noted at Çatalhöyük. The assemblages from Çatalhöyük and Boncuklu were not suitable for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction because …
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STABLE ISOTOPIC INSIGHTS INTO THE SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS OF PREHISTORIC DOGS (CANIS FAMILIARIS) AND THEIR HUMAN COUNTERPARTS IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA
… prehistory including: decisions to increase sedentism, abuse of power structures, and stratification of gender roles within human populations. Additionally, an overall decrease in health is seen in prehistoric populations who focused their subsistence practices on maize. Dogs were chosen as …
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Znaczenie kulturowe upraw i komodyfikacji roślin w okresach chalkolitu oraz wczesnej epoki brązu w Azji Południowo-Zachodniej na przykładzie stanowisk Gurga Chiya z późnej fazy kultury Ubaid (Iracki Kurdystan), Kani Shaie z okresu wczesnej epoki brązu (Iracki Kurdystan) oraz Tel Qedesh z okresu wczesnej epoki brązu (Izrael)
… (arable fields, deforestation), society (sedentism, crop storage) and ecology (domestication of plants and animals). One of the effects of farming was the increase in population, which was associated with the emergence of non- agricultural specializations and extensive forms of …
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Subsistence, Technology, and Site Use Through Time at 41HY160, the Tee Box Six Locale
… the faunal assemblage is evidence for increased sedentism and expedient core reduction and simple flake tool use. Sometime during the Late Archaic II, bison return in greater numbers and their logistical exploitation apparently covarys with observed changes in the lithic technological …