Anthropology 2231F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sedentism
13 Jul 2012
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Lecture 6 part 3 changes of the middle archaic. People are not moving as much, practicing less mobile way of life: not fully sedentary, moving residences less often. Returning to same locations more often, greater sedentism: entrenched mobility . Changed resources (lack of or no hickory nuts) People forced to focus in on certain areas where there are still resources, means you have to keep going back to certain areas. Changes in river valleys made them have more resources than they were before, new resources available there. Logistically organized, sent out task groups: 2. Landscape filling with people, have to return to same locations because other people have moved into those locations or resources are not enough to sustain more people. Explains cemeteries, also indicators of sedentary and land ownership/rites to land/territoriality.
