ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Social Group
7 Oct 2020
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People tend to move multiple times during a year. Camps used for varying lengths of time. Home territories, but no investment is placed in any particular place. Unintentionally create microhabitats for pioneering plants in the disturbed areas around camps. Near constant movement of the entire group across the landscape. Periodic settlement for a few days, or weeks and then they must move again. People remain in one place throughout much, or all, of the year: villages and towns. Considerable investment is placed in particular places: land clearance and field preparation, houses and other structures, stored food and other materials, public works. For many tasks, human energy is replaced by animal energy. Some tribes and chiefdoms did not rely on agriculture. In those societies, the natural resources resembled crops in several important ways. Similarities include: productive and reliable resources, spatially fixed and concentrated resources, heavy labor demands during certain critical periods, harvest capable of being stored.
