Territoriality (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coast Salish ethnohistory describes how various locations associated with settlements were used for defence within the Salish Sea region of southwestern British Columbia. During times of conflict, these linked places formed defensive networks that functioned to maximize defensibility at both the settlement and allied settlement scales....
Crossing Ancient and Modern Borders: Territoriality in the Three Rivers Region (2015)
The lowland jungle environment of the Maya area presents numerous challenges to archaeologists in the study of ancient territoriality. Incomplete settlement survey data and fragmentary textual records hinder attempts to formulate comprehensive hypotheses comparable to those put forth for complex societies in other areas of the world. The Three Rivers Region of northeast Guatemala and northwest Belize is one area where some advancements may be made. Large portions of the region have been surveyed...
Defining Territories: Exploratory Analysis in Polynesia (2017)
Territory boundaries can often be difficult to identify archaeologically despite their importance in understanding the larger population process of competition between groups in the past. This analysis tests our ability to define archaeological territories on islands based on geospatial relationships between resources and fortifications. Territories are the result of historical processes of competition between groups. Testing of this method is conducted for the island of Rapa, Austral Islands,...
Despotism and Territorial Behavior: Low Population Density Foragers and Territorial Maintenance (2017)
Habitat distribution theory has been applied to a variety of archaeological research programs. The success of the framework has been largely demonstrated through the use of the ideal free distribution (IFD) model to elucidate the nature of colonization and settlement of insular environments. However, territorial maintenance, especially in the face of resource competition, may require the occupation of less suitable habitats as a means of controlling access to resources and land. This paper...
Ecology, Territoriality, and the Emergence of Acorn and Maize Economies in Western North America (2017)
Ethnographic populations throughout Western North American sometimes relied on strategies and institutions to protect resources, patches, and territories for exclusive use. But explaining why and identifying when these exclusionary practices emerged (and dissolved) in the past remains difficult. Based on predictions from ecological and evolutionary theory, individuals should only engage in territorial behavior when the benefits of exclusive use, such as subsistence gains, are worth the costs of...
El Cerro Magoni o Nonoalcatépetl en el registro histórico (2017)
El presente ensayo utiliza documentos del registro histórico para investigar la reasignación de significados al Cerro Magoni por diferentes grupos desde el siglo XVI hasta su presente definición como parte del Ejido de la comunidad Huerto Nantzha mediante el marco conceptual de la territorialidad. Ésta consiste en la apropiación y dominación de un espacio mientras que el territorio es distinguible y defendida por su dueño y defendida. El poseedor será quien dote de significados específicos al...
Land, War, and Optimal Territorial Size in Neolithic Society: Why New Guineans Rarely ever Occupied the Territories They had Conquered (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Not infrequently, New Guinean warriors managed in war to displace or annihilate the members of a neighboring territory, yet almost never did they then move in and occupy the territory they had won. Instead, they either left it vacant, allowed allies to take it over, or (most commonly) invited the original owners back a couple of years later. This seemingly...
Paths and plants: territory and mobility among the Laklãnõ/Xokleng in Brazil (2016)
The Laklãnõ Xokleng Indigenous people occupy a tropical forest area of the Southern valley of Brazil, in Santa Catarina. Historically, they were documented as a hunter-gatherer population with high mobility system who occupied and managed an extended and diverse territory, including high plateaus, forested valleys and coastal areas. Archaeologically it is still difficult to affirm if this documented mobility pattern is an (in)direct result of European contact and reorganization of indigenous...
Post Pleistocene Cultural Adaptations On the Northern Northwest Coast (1974)
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Social Boundaries and The Cultural Ecology of Artiodactyl Hunting in Prehistoric Central California (2017)
We use a model developed using Geographical Information Systems software to examine the extent to which the suitability of habitat surrounding archaeological sites in Central California affected hunting decisions for three artiodactyl taxa: elk (Cervus elaphus), deer (Odocoileus hemionus), and pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Model findings are compared to a database of 100 archaeofaunal assemblages from the same area. We find that the model predicts the presence and relative abundance of elk...
Strontium Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis of the Loma Sandia Archaic Period Mortuary Site of South Texas (2017)
Models of hunter-gatherer territoriality are derived from the ethnographic record but have rarely been directly evaluated with archaeological data. Mortuary sites on the Texas Coastal Plain have long been thought of as a product of hunter-gatherer territoriality. Strontium stable isotope ratios from human tooth enamel can be used to estimate the origin of individuals and can evaluate evidence for territoriality. This paper will report the results of strontium stable isotope ratios analyzed from...
Technology, subsistence and territoriality: changing patterns in the middle to late Holocene on the Central Brazilian plateau (2015)
During the middle to late Holocene a series of archaeological sites in central-north Minas Gerais state, located in the southwest of the Central Brazilian Plateau, show a context marked by the presence of an expedient lithic technology, no pottery, human burials and structures made of botanical remains. These structures contained domesticated plants, such as maize, manioc, cotton, bottle gourd, squash, peanut and native plants, such as palm nuts, passion fruit, jatobá, umbu and pequi. In this...
Territoriality Among Ancient Hunters: Interpretations from Ethnography and Nature. in Anthropological Anthropology In the Americas, Edited By B.J. Meggers. Anthropological Society of Washington Lecture Series, 1966-67, Washington, DC (1968)
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Territoriality among Coastal Villages on California’s Northern Channel Islands (2017)
The location of archaeological settlement sites is influenced not only by the distribution of ecological resources, but also cultural factors including conflict between neighboring populations. The ideal free distribution is a human behavioral ecology model that has been used to understand the establishment and persistence of settlement sites in the archaeological record. On California’s northern Channel Islands, the number and location of settlement sites expands over time until the Medieval...
Territoriality, Intertribal Boundaries, and Large Game Exploitation: Empirical Evaluation of a Spatial Bioeconomic Model of Conflict in the Western U.S. (2017)
Being a high-ranking prey item, large game are often desired for their economic and prestige values, both of which may be converted to an individual’s status. As such, big game can serve as a potential axis for competition between linguistic or ethnically distinct groups particularly under conditions of population stress leading to resource depression. This dynamic has been modeled using an evolutionary ecological approach that combines an amalgam of standard foraging models with the added cost...
Tethered Nomadism, Logistical Mobility, or Sedentism: Wetland Resources and Territoriality among Oneota Populations at Lake Koshkonong, Southeastern Wisconsin (2015)
In the Lake Koshkonong locality, Oneota sites are commonly placed near abundant ecotones. Preliminary analyses have compared the diverse suite of resources utilized by the Oneota groups in the region. Just as maize agriculture can tether groups to the landscape (e.g., planting, harvesting, defending surplus), we explore the possibility that the harvesting of watershed resources (e.g., wild rice, fish) could have a similar effect, as both a draw and a tethering agent to a particular location. ...
Topography and Territoriality in the Virginia Uplands (2016)
The western slopes of the Virginia Blue Ridge contain limited evidence of prehistoric activity, in stark contrast to the eastern slopes where prolific sites model seasonal upland mobility patterns for the southern Middle Atlantic. Fewer than 80 prehistoric sites, the majority identified as small lithic scatters bereft of diagnostics, are documented for the 105 miles of the western slopes of Shenandoah National Park; five times that number are documented for the eastern slopes. Attributed by some...
Towards a Cultural Ecological Understanding of Monongahela Culture (1981)
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The View from Rapa: Behavioral Ecology and Fortifications in Polynesia (2015)
Fortifications are found in the archaeological record around the world. Studies of fortifications on the landscape tend to focus on aspects of human territoriality, especially in relation to conflict, economics, and resources. This paper takes a Human Behavioral Ecology approach to territoriality and applies the use of viewsheds, as derived from a GIS database, to the examination of a central resource. Rapa, Austral Islands, French Polynesia, is often cited as a classic example of an island...