ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Space Colonization, Erlitou Culture
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Decisions on settlement location can be made based on : resource availability (including jobs) landforms social needs transportation. Etc. solely or in combination priorities vary from person to person, group to group. Settlement patterns the manner in which a particular group organized its settlements and occupied its geographic space settlement pattern is culturally significant. Archaeologically, a settlement pattern appears as a system of interrelated sites settlement archaeology is the study of ancient settlement patterns and how they changed over time. Hypothetical priorities for foragers and pastoralists: for farmers: seasonable availability of resources (especially food, therefore, frequently move around the landscape, farmable fields; other important resources, therefore, less mobile size of the groups also matter. Sedentary settlement pattern vs. seasonal round settlement pattern. Determining settlement pattern locate the sites (through regional survey) Determine the relationships between the sites and the landscape identify the sites" functions. Determining the relationships between the sites (erlitou dating to 3900-3500 bp as an example)
