Anthropology 2230F/G Lecture Notes - Old Crow Flats, Glacial Refugium, Pleistocene Megafauna
8 Oct 2013
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Lewis binford was the first to lay out definitions on the way they move. He used the term residential mobility with foragers and logistical mobility with collectors but groups could be a mix of both and their place on the spectrum could shift. Residential mobility is when the whole community moves for resources where as logistical has base camps with task groups that come and go so they move camp less and use special purpose sites. Logistical groups have larger populations and are more common in areas where resources are seasonal and they use food storage and this affects dwellings because they are more invested in them and they are more permanent. This is more complex in the arctic but c14 dating is still used and the decay is measured as it transforms into more stable c12 (decay happens at a fixed rate)
