residential mobility (Other Keyword)
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Ethnoarchaeological observations of residential mobility provide crucial links between subsistence activities, landscape use, social behaviors, and archaeological visibility of occupations. Pumé foragers of the Venezuela llanos move their camps up to six times a year. They occupy separate wet and dry season main camps that are the hubs of central place foraging for different seasonal resources. Pumé hunter-gatherers also make temporary camps for fishing, raw material acquisition, and to...
Shifting Mobility Strategies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Mongolia (2017)
Mobility is a central part of the contemporary, traditional, historical and prehistorical economic strategies employed by hunters and pastoralists in Mongolia. While mobility is often contrasted with sedentism, there is much variation within the practice of "mobility" and how it is employed. Residential and logistical mobility are often used heuristics to discuss variations in mobility. A critical application of these terms to the archaeological record of Northern Mongolia illustrates their...