An Exploration of the Relationship between Mobility and Sedentism in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Title: An Exploration of the Relationship between Mobility and Sedentism in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica
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An Exploration of the Relationship between Mobility and Sedentism in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1685 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
In Anthropology a false notion occurs in that hunters and gatherers are mobile and agriculturalists are sedentary. There are many examples of Native North American tribes and cultures that exhibit mobile agriculturalism, opposing early archaeological preconcieved notions of a unilineal settlement continuum from mobile to sedentary. The model from mobile hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture should be thought of as a universal, variable and mutil-dimensional phenomenon. The American Southwestern culture of the Hopi and …showed first 75 words of 1685 total…
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