Mobility and sedentariness: The convergence of two divergent archaeological concepts

Anna Bach Gómez

Abstract


Human communities have settled very diverse geographical and climatic environments on a more or less permanent basis. Much of the archaeological evidence left by humans shows the strategies they adopted in terms of mobility, the structure of exchange networks, and the evidence of their inhabiting an environment that they quickly learned to manage and appropriate. This article provides an overall assessment of the archaeological reality and analytical potential of this record. It is based on cases of recent prehistory and evidence of mobility and nomadism, both from a global perspective and by using specific examples from the Near East.

Keywords


archaeology; mobility; nomadism; sedentariness; networks; property

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.13.22791

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