Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Critical aspects on the understanding of prehistoric lifestyles are how hunter-gatherers moved on the landscape and how they organize their technological and subsistence strategies in relation with climatic fluctuations and environmental changes. Ethnographic studies documented that in homogeneous environments, where resources are particularly scattered on the region, foragers tend to move frequently their central base. Conversely, in areas where resources are patchy due to seasonal climates, logistical mobility is preferred. In the last decades, many studies applied these ethnographic concepts to understanding the mobility patterns in archaic humans but, in several regions, it is still unclear how the environment influences hominins displacement strategies and whether biological and technological differences are also reflected in the management of the territory. This symposium aims to explore the issue of hunter-gatherers mobility focusing on short-term anthropogenic occupations. This type of mobility strategy might generate a variety of archaeological contexts such as residential bases, locations, hunting stations or temporary camps. The comparison of these short-term occupations between different regions will contribute to a better understanding on how hunter-gatherers adapted and moved in different climatic and environmental areas. Speakers are very welcome to present new data, as well as theoretical and methodological approaches.
Other Keywords
Paleolithic •
Lithic Technology •
Mesolithic •
Short-Term Occupation •
Spatial Analysis •
Short-Term Occupations •
Settlement Systems •
Raw Materials •
Landscape Archaeology •
Technological Analysis
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Turkey (Country) •
Republic of Armenia (Country) •
Georgia (Country) •
Kingdom of Sweden (Country) •
Kingdom of Norway (Country) •
French Republic (Country) •
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort (Country) •
Ireland (Country) •
Isle of Man (Country) •
Kingdom of Belgium (Country)
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- Documents (11)
- Characterizing Ephemeral Paleolithic Occupations at Arma Veirana (Liguria, Italy) (2017)
- A Critical Review of the Meaning of Short-term Occupation in Early Prehistory (2017)
- Examining Sedimentation Rates, Find Densities, Raw Material Economies and Technological Solutions in Paleolithic Contexts (2017)
- The Importance of Short Duration Archaeological Sites for Contextualizing Forager Organization: An Argument from the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of central Portugal (2017)
- The Initial Upper Paleolithic of Northern Mongolia: Site Function, Mobility and Assemblage Plasticity (2017)
- Neanderthal Short-Term Occupations in Open-Air Sites: An Overview from Eastern Germany (2017)
- Re-worked Artifacts and Models of Raw Material Exploitation as Indicators for Settlement Duration on Middle Palaeolithic Sites in the Highlands of Central Europe (2017)
- The Scatter between the Scatter between the Patches: A Tephrostratigraphic Approach to Low-density Archaeological Sites in the Eastern Lake Victoria Basin of Kenya (2017)
- Short-term Neanderthal Occupations and Carnivores in the North-East of Iberian Peninsula (2017)
- Understanding the Short-term Occupations of the Lateglacial and Early Mesolithic Groups in Western Europe (2017)
- A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Cows Hunter A Mousterian Hunting Location on the Banks of the Paleo-Hula Lake (2017)