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Take a load off: skeletal implications of sedentism in the feet of modern body donors
Malorie E Albee
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 485–501, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad041
Published: 23 December 2023
... embodies nationwide economic and cultural changes that occur during the life course. Therefore, this article aims to answer the following question: To what degree has sedentism impacted pedal health over the last 100 years in the USA? Corresponding author. Department of Sociology and Anthropology...
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Southeast Europe (The Balkans and the Danube)
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Clive Bonsall and others
Published: 20 February 2025
... sedentism cemeteries Bukovac Cave Serbia Mesolithic Balkans art and symbolism exchange networks houses and sedentism subsistence technology treatment of the dead The Balkan Peninsula forms an irregular triangle of land that extends from the Sava Valley and the southern arm of the Carpathian...
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Rock Art
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Antti Lahelma and Jan Magne Gjerde
Published: 20 February 2025
... was conceived. Later Mesolithic rock art in both southern and northern Europe also features images of communal hunting, large rituals, armed conflict, and other scenes that suggest increased sedentism and social complexity. rock art Whitley D Alta Norway Breuil H Leroi Gourhan A Rivero O Ruiz J F Criado...
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Earth Oven Size and Camas Intensification in the Upper Willamette Valley, Oregon
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Joseph D. Wardle
Published: 10 January 2023
... and the intensification of camas production seems to have begun 5,000 years ago. Surprisingly, the size of earth ovens decreased over time, but this may have been due to increased sedentism, which may have favored smaller, more generalized ovens. Camas Camassia quamash in Upper Willamette Valley Earth ovens Hunter...
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Published: 03 August 2016
... Mortuary data Leskov Alexander Mikhailovich Müller Beck Hansjürgen Shamanism Bronshtein Mikhail M Point Hope social complexity Aboriginal whaling prehistoric art warfare Old Bering Strait sedentism As early as 400–250 b.c ., a radical conceptual and socioeconomic breakthrough...
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Published: 01 April 2014
... Tell Shemshara texts Turukkeans Daylamites Jamshid Jones Capt Felix Naqsh e Rustam Pasargadae Persepolis Yima Herzfeld Ernst Emil Tol e Spid Miskawayh Mughan Agro Industrial Company nomadism prehistory Iran early agriculture sedentism In common parlance the term “nomad” is applied...
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The Neolithic of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Charles F. W. Higham
Published: 14 February 2022
.... archaeogenetics marine shell millet Neolithic rice sedentism weaving Castillo Cristina cattle copper DNA dog Fuller Dorien Kealhofer Lisa Khorat Plateau Shangshan Yangtze River An Son Australia Baiyangcun Ban Chiang Ban Kao Ban Lum Khao Ban Non Wat Baodun Cau Sat China Cishan Dadunzi...
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Travel and the Mind
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Tony Hiss
Published: 01 July 2021
...This chapter explores travel and the mind, and aspects of psychology of travel, describing humans as the ‘travelling ape’. The chapter looks at the evolution of the human species, the effects of the shift to sedentism some 11,000 years ago, and how travel can impact our mental state. The author...
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Economic Organization and Social Dynamics of Middle-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Communities on the Coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Northern Chile)
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Diego Salazar and others
Published: 07 January 2020
...Chapter 3 summarizes research on maritime adaptations at Middle Holocene (~7,500 to 4,500 cal BP) occupations of the southern extreme of the Atacama Desert, centered around Taltal on the north Chilean coast. Through this period, the authors see increasing population, complexity, and sedentism...
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Ceramics (As Containers)
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Carl Knappett and others
Published: 18 September 2012
... the plastic medium of clay and marrying it with pyrotechnology to create irreversibly a resilient object — usually in the form of a container, has frequently been assumed to mark a revolutionary stage in the development of modern human thought and practice, forming with agriculture and sedentism a trinity...
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The Neolithic on the Plateau
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Mihriban Özbaşaran
Published: 21 November 2012
... of the Neolithic. The data presently display local adaptations of central Anatolian Neolithic communities to their diverse habitats. In the ninth and early eighth millennia BCE , sedentism and a heavy reliance on naturally occurring resources constituted the way of life on the plateau. Full farming...
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Published: 15 December 2020
... of domestic architecture and artefacts found within living spaces and urban contexts. It will focus on the changing approaches to the material culture of sedentism, urbanism, and use of domestic artefacts in Egypt over the last 150 years. The main section, discussing settlement archaeology in Egypt, aims both...
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How some people became farmers
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Denis J. Murphy
Published: 19 July 2007
... species, doubtless supplemented by a wide range of edible roots and leafy foods; plus small and large game, such as gazelle, when available. During this period of relative plenty, sedentism was a successful adaptive strategy for this hunter–gatherer community. As well as enabling the people to exploit...
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The Neolithization of Northern Europe
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Julian Thomas
Published: 28 November 2013
... promoted by high-density sedentism. Balkans Central Europe Danube river Eitzum Gronenborn Detlef Körös Linearbandkeramik LBK Nowak Marek Radiocarbon dating Schwanfeld Starčevo Vinča Balaton lake Bánffy Ester Hazel Old wood effect Pityerdomb Regöly Bruchenbrücken Longhouses LBK ‘Budding...
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Planting Settlements, Forging the Savanna: Subsistence on the Central Frontier, 1000 BCE to 750 CE
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Kathryn M. de Luna
Published: 27 September 2016
... Mounded villages Victoria Falls Foraging Sedentism Greater Eastern Botatwe Era Kafue River Basanga village Mwanamaimpa village Cattle keeping Fagan Brian Kaskazi language society Mwami Schoenbrun David Ila language society Kusi language society Mopane vegetation Tonga language society...
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New England Algonquians: Navigating “Backwaters” and Typological Boundaries
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Elizabeth S. Chilton
Published: 18 September 2012
..., sedentism, and social complexity, and to explore alternative pathways in human history. In this sense, the article challenges directional models of cultural evolution and, instead, argues for the importance of historical contingency in human adaptation. It first reviews the archaeological evidence...
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Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Sedentism
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Daniela Holst
Published: 20 February 2025
... aspects and scales of mobility and sedentism partly convert traditional conceptions. Several references indicate reduced residential mobility already in early Mesolithic communities. Land use systems seem to be characterized by long-lasting residences in restricted, permanently managed territories, where...
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Changes in Precontact Domestic Architecture at the Heckelman Site in Northern Ohio
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Brian G. Redmond and Brian L. Scanlan
Published: 10 March 2015
..., which in turn illustrate the evolution of village sedentism and shifting seasonality over the final thousand years of northern Ohio prehistory. Archaic period Asmus 3 site Cuyahoga River valley Early Woodland period Indian Hills site Late Archaic period Late Prehistoric period Maumee River valley...
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Published: 25 May 2021
...The author suggests that the presence of early Late Archaic houses in Falls region reflects changes in hunter-gatherer social organization associated with increased sedentism. The aggregation of domestic structures implies greater investments associated with territorial demarcation and smaller home...
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Why Move? Ohio Hopewell Sedentism Revisited
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Paul J. Pacheco
Published: 01 April 2010
..., but it does highlight the importance of more adequately resolving this question. Carr Christopher Charles Douglas K Communities Cowan Frank Dancey William “A Mobile Hopewell? Questioning Assumptions of Ohio Hopewell Sedentism” Cowan Ohio Hopewell Ohio Valley Middle Prufer Olaf Ruby Bret J Sedentary...
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