Mobility (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Titicaca Basin has long been home to communities of people who navigated their highland landscape effectively. Much research has been devoted to early developments in the southern lake basin (in modern-day Bolivia) as well as later communities on the northwestern side of the lake (in modern-day...
<html>A return to <i>Special Function Settlements</i>: the spatial dynamics of gathering in the Ica Highlands (AD 1000-1532)</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "A Movable Feast: Mobility and Commensalism in the Andes" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the 1990’s Parsons, Hastings and Matos identified Special Function Settlements describing habitation sites with dense clusters of agglutinated structures and circumscribed open areas in the highlands. They theorized that these places functioned less as permanent settlements, and more as spaces were people congregated and...
<html>Better Baselines? Creating Robust and Meaningful Sulfur (δ<sup>34</sup>S) Isoscapes for Archaeological Studies of Residence and Mobility</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Many of the central questions of archaeology engage directly with themes relating to movement, mobility, and migration. The two most common isotope systems that have been exploited for this purpose are strontium (<sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr) and oxygen (δ<sup>18</sup>O), with sulfur isotopes (δ<sup>34</sup>S) being a much most recent addition to...
<html>Seasons of Movement: Omnidirectional Connectivity Modeling of Indigenous Place-Making in the Great Bay Estuary (<i>P8bagok</i>)</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Pedestrians: Current Research in GIS-Based Movement Modeling for Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Movement has featured in archaeological GIS efforts to analyze social uses of landscape since the start. Important work has focused on Least Cost Paths. However, dividing landscapes into a binary of key sites to be connected and a matrix of land between does not always capture the scope of...
Human Activity and Adaptive Behavior during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the Lop Nur Region, Northwest China (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lop Nur region, in the east part of Tarim Basin, was an important transportation junction between west and east,north and south Eurasia. However, previous studies on prehistoric human activity have concentrated mostly on the Bronze Age,whereas that during the Stone Age remains largely unresearched. Archaeological team has discovered 20 new sites and...
Human Ecology and Lithic Technology in Late Pleistocene SE Asia: A Whole Assemblage Perspective (2015)
Whole assemblage analyses have revealed that Late Pleistocene foragers in Western Eurasia show land use strategies that fall on an expedient-curated continuum of lithic organization linked to shifts between residential and logistical mobility. Here, we apply this model to reconstruct mobility strategies in tropical SE Asia to see whether it works in non-temperate settings. Data from over 42 lithic assemblages from across SE Asia indicate that they appear to reflect a distinct environmental...
Human Mobility and Ostrich Habitat Use Revealed by Strontium Isotope Analysis (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Understanding a population’s mobility patterns is key to reconstructing how a group gains resources and adapts to changing contexts. Strontium isotope (<sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr) analysis is a powerful tool in archaeology to investigate past movements of humans and animals in relation to bioavailable <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr maps...
Human mobility during the Greek Neolithic: A multi-isotope analysis of the burials from Alepotrypa Cave (2016)
This study measures strontium (87Sr/86Sr), oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13C) isotope ratios in human and domesticated animal teeth from Alepotrypa Cave, a cave that was used for both shelter and burial of the dead from the Early to the Final Neolithic period (6000 – 3200 BC) in southern Greece. Previous radiogenic isotope research on archaeological material in Greece indicates that there are significant differences in 87Sr/86Sr ranges in the Aegean due to the complex geology (Nafplioti 2011;...
Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Strategies: A Late Woodland Example from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (2015)
The Late Woodland (LW) period in the upper Great Lakes region has been linked to the development of the Inland Shores Fishery and especially to the advent of deep water fall fishing. A recent study of LW settlement and subsistence patterns in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan has revealed a shift in the mobility strategies used by LW peoples of that region. Using site locational data and an assemblage diversity index trends were identified that directly inform on LW settlement and mobility...
Hunter-Gatherer Mobility: Limitations of Interpretation (1997)
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Hydrogen and Oxygen (δ2H and δ18O) Isotopes and the Study of Human-Turkey Relationships in the Northern US Southwest (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous studies have established consistency, but also substantial anomalies, in how turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) were managed across the US Southwest/Mexican Northwest. In this paper, we present bone collagen derived stable hydrogen (δ2H) and bone apatite derived stable oxygen (δ18O) isotopes in turkeys from Tijeras Pueblo...
Identification of Post-Marital Residence Patterns in Prehistory: A Case from the European Neolithic (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The aim of this contribution is to test hypotheses about the correlation of post-marital residence with several material patterns observed in the archaeological record, namely household floor area, the spatial arrangements of households and type of subsistence. These associations, which were previously revealed in the anthropological literature, are...
Identifying Ancient Intra-Monastic Pathways among Gandharan Buddhist Sites through GIS (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project focuses on identifying pathways between sites of the Gandharan Buddhist Civilization with the help of GIS technology to identify the locations of as-yet unfound Gandharan archaeological sites, which are under the threat of becoming permanently destroyed due to rapidly growing urbanism in the region. This project employed GIS principles and...
Identity through Movement: Domestic Political Units and Pan-Andean Relations in Early and Middle Cajamarca Periods (50 BC–AD 750) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Them and Us: Transmission and Cultural Dynamism in the North of Peru between AD 250 and 950: A Vision since the Recent Northern Investigations" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The purpose of this project is to investigate the relationship between environmental factors and cultural dynamics as manifested in the development of specialized pottery production as a symbol of an ethnic identity in the valley of Cajamarca,...
Im(mobile) Pastoralists of the Central Steppes? Ethnohistory vs. Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Due to the heavy influence of sixteenth- to nineteenth-century ethnography, many researchers still consider the Late Bronze Age (LBA) (2100–1300 BC) populations of the Trans-Ural steppe/forest-steppe to be nomadic pastoralists—a situation where most or all of human population is involved in periodic movements between...
Imperial networks and local resistance at the edge of a highland empire in the Middle East/South Caucasus (Iron Age Urartu) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Pedestrians: Current Research in GIS-Based Movement Modeling for Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of ancient states and empires has often suffered from an under-appreciation of internal spatial/temporal variability in material culture and means of territorial control. Spatial network conceptions facilitate a better understanding of ancient states and empires’ development and forms of...
Implications of the Spanish Colonization in the Evolution of Dental Morphological Structure in Maya Populations from Yucatan (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Approaches to Cultural and Biological Complexity in Mexico at the Time of Spanish Conquest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dental morphology among the Prehispanic Maya population has been characterized by a certain degree of stability. Isolation-by-distance models do not fit well into Mesoamerican populations, due to a relatively homogeneous dental structure. This was true also in the Yucatan peninsula, despite the...
In the Shadow of Mountains: Our Evolving Understanding of Palaeolithic Foragers in the South Caucasus & Armenian Highlands (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The South Caucasus and Armenian Highlands preserve a rich and diverse record of Pleistocene hominin behavior spanning all major technologies, ecologies, and environments. After 30 years of interdisciplinary research by various international teams, the nature and scope of these behaviors are coming into focus. In this talk I provide a summary...
Incorporating Knowledge about Future Weather Conditions on Navigational Decisions in an Agent-Based Seafaring Simulation: Comparison to Simpler Navigation Strategies (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The efficiency and safety of ocean travel is greatly dependent on along-trip environmental conditions. Agent-based simulations that optimize routes based on expected environmental conditions have been used by the shipping industry and the sailboat racing community for decades. Some recent efforts in archaeology have used the latter models. Here I describe...
Indexing Mobility in the Western Puerco Region of Arizona using Paleoethnobotanical and Architectural Evidence (2017)
The Western Puerco Region of East-Central Arizona contains a staggering diversity of architecture and material culture eluding to complex mobility practices that varied across time and space. Although archaeologists in the US Southwest/NW Mexico have explored the sociocultural and ecological underpinnings that influenced household mobility, and have identified numerous lines of evidence that indicate increasingly mobile or sedentary habitation strategies, archaeologists have not developed robust...
Indicators of Athabaskan Presence in Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological survey conducted within Rio Grande del Norte National Monument indicates the use of the area by Paleoindian, Archaic, and Pueblo groups. However, evidence has been found which may also indicate an Athabaskan presence at Cerro del Aire and Guadalupe Mountain. Though Athabaskan groups...
Inka Dynamics in the Cochabamba Valley (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After expansion from Cuzco, the Inca introduced a statecraft model based principally on the mobilization of numerous population groups across longer and shorter distances. In this sense, the Inca Empire can be conceptualized as a “mobile state” that was to last for only 80 to 100 years (1445-1538 AD). Inca influence in the area of Bolivia was moderate...
The Inka Road and Mobility of a Fisher Community in the Cañete Valley, Peru (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Inka Road system was a critical infrastructure for expanding and consolidating the Inka empire in the Andes. From the traditional view, the existence of the Inka Road across diverse regions was seen as an indicator of how the Inkas integrated and controlled the mobility of subject communities. Other recent perspectives have emphasized the mobility of...
Insights from Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey at a Pastoral Neolithic Occupation Site in Northeastern Tanzania (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geophysical and remote surveys are well-established methods for identifying subsurface features and providing insight to site layout and land-use strategies in the archaeological record. In recent years, magnetometry has been successfully used at Pastoral Neolithic (PN, 5000-1200 BP) sites in eastern Africa, allowing for the identification of features and...
Integrating Faunal and Lithic Evidence from Quina Mousterian Contexts in Southwestern France to Investigate Neandertal Subsistence Strategies and Mobility (2017)
The interpretation of Middle Paleolithic archaeological assemblages has been the subject of spirited debates among researchers of Neandertal behavior for over half a century. While these debates have classically centered on analyses of lithic assemblages (e.g., the "Bordes-Binford debate"), it is important to recognize the value of incorporating the associated faunal records in our approach to these questions. Differences in lithic assemblages may be affected by factors like mobility, which may...