Sedentism Research Articles

Patterning and Its Causation in the Pre-Neolithic Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands (Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene)

ABSTRACTIn 1981 one of us (Cherry) first attempted to identify spatial and temporal patterning in the human colonization of the Mediterranean islands. Since the 1980s, slowly accumulating evidence has suggested that the Mediterranean islands were sporadically inhabited by hunter-gatherers during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Here we seek to establish whether or not these data exhibit regularity. We suggest that evidence for Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic activity, tending to cluster on larger or less remote islands, indicates that while humans were clearly capable of reaching the Mediterranean islands prior to the Neolithic, their general reluctance to do so can be explained in terms of the variable environmental attractiveness of the insular Mediterranean. Tending to be relatively small, dry, and biologically depauperate, the Mediterranean islands were largely inhospitable to mobile groups preferring extensive territories with diverse and robust biotas. Sedentism only became a widely viable ...

Identity: Culture Paradigm and Professional Space

The article considers identity as a system of selfdetermination in the global/local opposition. The ‘identification resource’ inherent in the historical environment is presented as a specific feature of modern territorial entities, architecture, as well as objectivespatial environment to identify them with a certain space or place. The means of cultural formation and translation of the identity resource are set up through the concept of the ‘transmutation contact’, which captures the essence of the processes of new creation and formation. Nomadism as another pole of the global/local opposition and a new interpretation of the space of sedentism assigns new ideals of development and forms of identification. Discourses of self-determination as a part of the global/local space are proposed to be interpreted as a key tendency in the development strategies of the region and the design culture.

Long-lasting effects of sedentarization-induced increase of fertility on labor force proportion in an Arab socieity: a case study in south Jordan.

Based on the authors' genealogical-demographic data of a Bedouin-origin clan in south Jordan which settled down in 1948, this paper aimed to report the long-lasting effects of increase in fertility induced by sedentarization on the labor force proportion, defined as percent of persons aged 15-64 years. The results highlighted that this proportion had an inverse relation with the total fertility rate and tended to fluctuate up to the present time with an interval of several decades, suggesting that a Bedouin-origin sedentarized group met alternately with the phase of high fertility and low proportion of labor force and the other phase of an opposite pattern. At present, unemployment of males, who have been engaged in subsistence and cash-earning work, was high especially in younger groups basically due to the narrow land of the clan (only 35 hectares for 456 people in 2005) for agriculture and the limited opportunities for cash-earning jobs. Taking into consideration that Bedouin-origin people sedentarized according to the government policy, it is needed for the government to support rural development plans of sedentarized Bedouin peoples.

Farmers as hunters. The implications of sedentism

Farmers as hunters. The implications of sedentism

Farmers as Hunters: The Implications of Sedentism

Farmers as Hunters: The Implications of Sedentism

The Origins of Commensalism and Human Sedentism

Wyncoll Greg, Tangri Daniel. The Origins of Commensalism and Human Sedentism. In: Paleorient, 1991, vol. 17, n°2. pp. 157-159.

Farmers as Hunters: The Implications of Sedentism

Farmers as Hunters: The Implications of Sedentism