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Author Varien, Mark.

Title Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape : Mesa Verde and Beyond / Mark D. Varien.

Publication Info. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1999.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022.
©1999.

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Description 1 online resource: illustrations, maps
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Arizona State University.
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.
Summary 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.
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 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.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Subject Mobilite residentielle -- Etats-nis -- Colorado.
Établissements humains prehistoriques -- États-Unis -- Colorado.
Pueblo (Indiens) -- Antiquites.
Puebloindianer.
Migration.
Sesshaftigkeit.
Residential mobility.
Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
Mobilite residentielle -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
Colonisation interieure -- Types prehistoriques -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
Pueblo (Indiens) -- Antiquites.
Residential mobility -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park.
Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities.
Puebloindianer.
Parc national de Mesa Verde.
Mesa Verde.
Colorado -- Sand Canyon Pueblo.
Colorado -- Duckfoot Site.
Duckfoot Site (Colo.)
Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.)
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9780816519040
9780816548811
0816519048