Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde & Beyond Hardcover - 1999
by Mark D. Varien
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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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- Title Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde & Beyond
- Author Mark D. Varien
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780816519040 / 0816519048
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.41 x 1.05 in (23.22 x 16.28 x 2.67 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Prehistoric
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Arizona
- Library of Congress subjects Pueblo Indians - Antiquities, Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-40106
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.209
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