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Schooled Tuaregs' Engagement with Mobile Pastoralism in the Agadez Region (Niger): Avoidable Sedentism and Alternative Forms of Cooperation

Nomadic Peoples, 2023
The recognition that pastoralism is well-suited to conditions of variability and uncertainty is growing among academics and policy-makers. With the notion that schooled individuals with pastoralist backgrounds could influence political decisions ...
Sarah Lunaček
exaly   +4 more sources

Settling down at Ceibal and Cuello: variation in the transition to sedentism across the Maya lowlands

Frontiers in Human Dynamics
During the Middle Preclassic period (c. 1000–350 BCE), the people of the Maya lowlands transitioned from a mobile horticulturalist to sedentary farming lifestyle, exemplified by permanent houses arranged around patios and rebuilt over generations.
Jessica Maclellan
exaly   +4 more sources

Mobile sedentism? The Marakwet settlements of the Elgeyo Escarpment, north-western Kenya

Afriques, 2023
Whilst mobility has long been a key theme within African archaeology, its study has usually focussed on cases of far-ranging nomadism, particularly amongst ‘hunter-gatherer’ pastoralist populations.
David K. Kay
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More on mobility and sedentism: Changes in adaptation from Upper Paleolithic to Incipient Jomon, Tanegashima Island, southern Japan.

PLoS ONE
Sedentism is an adaptive alternative in human societies which is often associated with the emergence of complex societies in the Holocene. To elucidate the factors and processes of the emergence of sedentary societies, continuous accumulation of case ...
Kazuki Morisaki, Fumie Iizuka, Masami Izuho, Mark Aldenderfer   +3 more
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Sedentism and plant cultivation in northeast China emerged during affluent conditions.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The reasons and processes that led hunter-gatherers to transition into a sedentary and agricultural way of life are a fundamental unresolved question of human history. Here we present results of excavations of two single-occupation early Neolithic sites (
Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Mingyu Teng, Yonaton Goldsmith, Ido Wachtel, Chris J Stevens, Ofer Marder, Xiongfei Wan, Xiaohong Wu, Dongdong Tu, Roi Shavit, Pratigya Polissar, Hai Xu, Dorian Q Fuller   +12 more
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Take a load off: skeletal implications of sedentism in the feet of modern body donors

Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, 2023
Background and Objectives Modern biocultural environments continue to place selective pressures on our skeletons. In the past century, a major cultural pressure has been the rise in sedentism.
Malorie Albee
exaly   +2 more sources

Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape

, 2022
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 ...
Mark D. Varien
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

Human mobility amid emerging sedentism in the Central Zagros: laser ablation strontium isotope analysis at Early Neolithic Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
The Neolithic of Southwest Asia (c. 10,000–5,200 BCE) is associated with increasing residential stability alongside resource domestication processes. Yet, the trajectories of sedentism varied widely, with balances between sedentary and mobile behaviors ...
Giulia Ragazzon, Giulia Ragazzon, Roger Matthews, James A. Milton, David van Acken, Kamal Raeuf Aziz, Alexander J. E. Pryor   +6 more
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Clotting Nomadic Spaces: On Sedentism and Nomadism

Nomadic Peoples, 2020
Abstract With reference to Jeffrey C. Kaufmann’s concept of a ‘sediment of nomadism’, for which pastoralism is still, implicitly or not, referenced and essentialised to ‘pure’ degrees of mobility and ‘pure’ food economies centred around livestock, this article argues that, in pastoral settings, sedentism is equally essentialised. This
Greta Semplici
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Correction: More on mobility and sedentism: Changes in adaptation from Upper Paleolithic to Incipient Jomon, Tanegashima Island, southern Japan.

PLoS ONE
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0314311.].
Kazuki Morisaki, Fumie Iizuka, Masami Izuho, Mark Aldenderfer   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources