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Author Varien, Mark.

Title Sedentism and mobility in a social landscape : Mesa Verde & beyond / Mark D. Varien.

Imprint Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-267) and index.
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.
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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.
Subject Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
Residential mobility -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.)
Duckfoot Site (Colo.)
Pueblo -- Antiquités.
Colonisation intérieure -- Types préhistoriques -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
Mobilité résidentielle -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities
Residential mobility
Colorado -- Duckfoot Site
Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park
Colorado -- Sand Canyon Pueblo
Sesshaftigkeit
Migration
Mesa Verde
Pueblo (Indiens) -- Antiquités.
Établissements humains préhistoriques -- États-Unis -- Colorado.
Mobilité résidentielle -- Etats-nis -- Colorado.
Parc national de Mesa Verde.
Puebloindianer.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
Other Form: Print version: Varien, Mark. Sedentism and mobility in a social landscape. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1999 (DLC) 98040106 (OCoLC)39786729
ISBN 9780816548811 (electronic bk.)
0816548811 (electronic bk.)
0816519048 (acid-free, archival-quality paper)
9780816519040 (acid-free, archival-quality paper)
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