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1 online resource (xvi, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Sedentism and mobility in horticultural and agricultural societies -- Anthropological perspectives on sedentism and mobility -- Sedentism and mobility in the Mesa Verde region -- Measuring household residential mobility -- Household residential movement in the Sand Canyon locality -- Community persistence in the Sand Canyon locality -- The social landscape in the Mesa Verde region -- Mobile households and persistent communities |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-267) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| In |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities.
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park
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Residential mobility -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
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Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities.
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Residential mobility.
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Sesshaftigkeit
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Migration
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Pueblo (Indiens) -- Antiquités.
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Établissements humains préhistoriques -- États-Unis -- Colorado.
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Mobilité résidentielle -- Etats-nis -- Colorado.
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| SUBJECT |
Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000810
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Duckfoot Site (Colo.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002812
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Colorado -- Duckfoot Site.
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Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
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Colorado -- Sand Canyon Pueblo.
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Mesa Verde
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Parc national de Mesa Verde.
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Puebloindianer.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98040106 |
| ISBN |
9780816548811 |
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0816548811 |
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