Group Size and Mobility Costs

Perlman, Stephen M.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-298780-9.50009-6

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“…Attempts to isolate factors in uencing behavioural and cultural processes through constructing general models has expanded our knowledge of a wide range of behavioural strategies and organizational processes in hunter-gatherer societies (e.g., mobility, sedentism, exchange, sharing). However, our understanding of such processes 1989; Jochim 1976Jochim , 1981Kelly 1983Kelly , 1985Kelly , 1995Perlman 1985;Shott 1986;Winterhalder and Smith 1981). From a general ecological approach, mobility is viewed as a way by which hunter-gatherers adapt to their environments.…”

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Forager mobility organization in seasonal tropical environments of western Thailand

Shoocongdej¹

2000

World Archaeology

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This paper investigates forager mobility organization in seasonal tropical environments and, speci cally, how mobility strategies have affected subsistence and settlement organization. The proposed model, based on cross-cultural comparisons, suggests that two mobility organizational systems exist in seasonal tropical environments: residential mobility in the wet season and logistical mobility as an organizational response to the dry season. The model is evaluated against archaeological data from Lang Kamnan, a Late and post-Pleistocene cave site in western Thailand. Results of the analyses of archaeological and environmental data indicate Lang Kamnan was occupied sporadically from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene, and that residential mobility was employed by small groups of foragers using a generalized subsistence technology during the wet season. The site currently lacks evidence of dry season occupation, and thus it is not yet possible to argue for the use of a logistical mobility strategy in the dry season. The proposed mobility model provides an important approach for examining variability in Late and post-Pleistocene cultural systems in tropical environments, particularly in Southeast Asia where such variability continues to be viewed as the consequence of sequential occupation by different 'cultures' such as 'Hoabinhian'.

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Forager mobility organization in seasonal tropical environments of western Thailand

Shoocongdej¹

2000

World Archaeology

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Hunter-Gatherer Social Costs and the Nonviability of Submarginal Environments

1993

Journal of Anthropological Research

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Prehistoric Seasonality Studies in Coastal Southern New England

Bernstein

1990

American Anthropologist

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The results of seasonality studies undertaken with prehistoric faunal materials from the Greenwich Cove site in coastal Rhode Island are presented. Growth patterns in shells of the hard clam or quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria) are used to reconstruct the time(s) of year this species was collected. A controlled study of seasonal growth provides a comparative baseline for this analysis. Seasonality of white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) hunting is interpreted through the examination of growth structures in preserved teeth. The seasonal availability of migratory species is also considered. Relatively year‐round coastal settlement is proposed for the final centuries of the prehistoric period.

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Group Size and Mobility Costs

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Forager mobility organization in seasonal tropical environments of western Thailand

Forager mobility organization in seasonal tropical environments of western Thailand

Hunter-Gatherer Social Costs and the Nonviability of Submarginal Environments

Prehistoric Seasonality Studies in Coastal Southern New England

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