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Seeing Cattle like a State: Sedentist Assumptions of the Namibian Livestock Identification and Traceability System

open access: yesNomadic Peoples, 2023
Livestock identification and traceability systems (LITS) are an increasingly prominent component of national livestock development policies around the world.
Max Mauerman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neolithic pathways in East Asia: early sedentism on the Mongolian Plateau

open access: yesAntiquity, 2021
The shift to sedentary lifeways represents a significant change in human adaptation. Despite the broadly contemporaneous timing of this transition across East Asia during the Holocene Climatic Optimum, such changes varied regionally.
Chao Zhao   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Isotopic evidence for residential mobility of farming communities during the transition to agriculture in Britain [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2016
Development of agriculture is often assumed to be accompanied by a decline in residential mobility, and sedentism is frequently proposed to provide the basis for economic intensification, population growth and increasing social complexity.
Samantha Neil   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building blocks of agriculture

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
The origins of agriculture lie in the distant past, approximately 12 000 years ago, when hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic embraced sedentism at the dawn of the Neolithic.
Jurie van den Heever, Chris Jones
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains.
Vesna Dimitrijević   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The future Neolithic in the Aegean

open access: yesStudia Praehistorica, 2022
Scholars working in the Aegean are used to associating the term Neolithic always with plant cultivation and domesticated animals. On the other hand, the recent trends in redefining the Neolithic reveal that the Neolithic is marked not only by the onset ...
Burçin Erdoğu
doaj   +1 more source

The question of ‘elites’: real people or mysterious agents? Elitism as a convenient recourse to interpret social change in prehistoric Southwestern Asia (from the origins of sedentism to the ‘Uruk phenomenon’)

open access: yesStudia Antiqua et Archaeologica, 2021
This article analyzes current theoretical discourses within the Neolithic and Chalcolithic research of Southwestern Asia, which is still dominated by interpretations that assume a progression of increased hierarchization. Whether explicitly or implicitly,
Cristina Barcina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Sedanthropocene: Nomadism, Ecology, Hypernormalization: Toward Reimagining the Holocene

open access: yesSocieties, 2019
The various (s)cenes of Anthropocene discourse are attempts to conceptualize the problem of anthropogenic global warming and to better understand the problem with a view to possible solutions. This paper explores, in a series of theoretic vignettes, ways
David Selsky
doaj   +1 more source

Evolutionary Medicine and Future of Humanity: Will Evolution Have the Final Word?

open access: yesHumanities, 2013
Evolutionary medicine in its classical form assumes that since cultural evolution is faster than biological evolution, ailments of modern people are a result of mismatch between adaptations to the past environments and current situations.
Maciej Henneberg, Arthur Saniotis
doaj   +1 more source

TWO PONTOS CASTLES IN VEZIRKÖPRÜ, REG. SAMSUN: BÜYÜKKALE (SAGYLION) AND KÜÇÜKKALE [PDF]

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2023
Vezirköprü, the district of Samsun, is an area of a continuous sedentism for millennia, from the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age until the present, due to its location at an important crossroads, with wide plains and numerous streams all around, and a ...
Temür, A.
doaj   +1 more source

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