Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Strategies

Kelly, Robert L.

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“…El estudio profundo de las variaciones en las condiciones del paisaje se mencionó como relevante e imprescindible para evaluar la variabilidad en el uso de los recursos líticos en el pasado, y de este modo entender la articulación entre la estructura del registro arqueológico y los procesos de su formación (Binford 1980;Kelly 1983;Whallon 1984;Kroll y Price 1991;Wandsnider 1992Wandsnider , 1996.…”

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Desarrollo metodológico para el estudio de fuentes de aprovisionamiento lítico en la meseta central santacruceña, Patagonia argentina

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2004

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Desarrollo metodológico para el estudio de fuentes de aprovisionamiento lítico en la meseta central santacruceña, Patagonia argentina

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2004

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“…"Foragers" (sensu Binford) occupy relatively fine-grained habitats that require or reward high mobility frequency (Kelly 1983, Shott 1986, and essentially the same set of activities is carried out in successive camps. Binford…”

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Cuatro Vientos: A Reconsideration of Seven Prehistoric Sites in the Lower Rio Grande Plains of South Texas

Carpenter¹,

Chavez²,

Miller³

et al. 2010

ITA

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IntroductIonWith this report, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) begins a reconsideration of approaches to the evaluation and treatment of those areas where surface lithic scatters are the main constituent of the archeological record. The reconsideration was inspired by the Cuatro Vientos project in Laredo, Webb County, Texas. The project and the ideas surrounding it developed slowly. The ideas continued to evolve through discussion between SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) and TxDOT as additional work on the project occurred. Because this project proceeded in an idiosyncratic fashion, some words of explanation might be helpful. The following discussion provides an account of how the project developed and where future work might be heading. PrevIous work at cuatro vIentosBlanton and Associates (Blanton) conducted the initial survey of the project's area of potential effects (Ringstaff et al. 2004). The survey identified 14 sites. The Blanton survey report showed the local archeological record to predominantly be a messy landscape of mixed assemblages. Within this landscape were some pockets with potentially-preserved, isolable components and features. The Blanton survey report thus recommended eight of the 14 sites for additional evaluation. TxDOT, in consultation with the Texas Historical Commission, accepted those recommendations.TxDOT then tasked SWCA with developing a scope for the fieldwork under one of TxDOT's general archeological services contracts. SWCA's approach concentrated on the identification of those select areas that had a high level of integrity, with horizontal and/or vertical separation of assemblages and components (Carpenter, Houk, and Miller 2005). This integrity-focused approach has been explicitly advocated by TxDOT in the past and continues to inform TxDOT's evaluations of the effects of its projects. IntegrIty and the evaluatIon oF south texas sItesThe integrity-focused approach can perhaps be refined, however. Two issues must be addressed. On the one hand, the archeological record of south Texas and its upland lithic scatters is not amenable to many interpretive strategies. The data from the uplands are typically of poor quality. In many places, the ground surface has remained stable or has eroded. Preservation of many types of material is poor. The same general areas have seen repeated occupation. This combination of factors has produced an archeological record that can be difficult to render meaningful. Many aspects of past human behavior and adaptations can not be inferred under these circumstances. On the other hand, the activities that occurred in these areas may have played a significant role in local adaptations. We should not be willing to treat such a large portion of the archeological record as a black box, where significant activities remain unidentified. To ignore the uplands makes an appreciation of the valley settings more difficult, since data would not be available from the upland areas for comparative analysis. Refining current approaches means splitting ...

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“…In the second set of analyses, which were based on samples that were smaller than those used in the first set of analyses, Shott examined the relationships between the technological variables and two measures of logistic mobility, the number of days spent in the main winter camp and intensity of land use. In addition to examining the correlations between the technological variables and measures of mobility, Shott carried out analyses that evaluated the strength of the statistical association between the technological variables and effective temperature and net primary productivity on the grounds that Kelly [22] argued that these variables play a role in structuring hunter -gatherer mobility strategies.…”

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What drives the evolution of hunter–gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest

Collard

Buchanan

Morin

et al. 2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Recent studies have suggested that the decisions that hunter -gatherers make about the diversity and complexity of their subsistence toolkits are strongly affected by risk of resource failure. However, the risk proxies and samples employed in these studies are potentially problematic. With this in mind, we retested the risk hypothesis with data from hunter-gatherer populations who lived in the northwest coast and plateau regions of the Pacific Northwest during the early contact period. We focused on these populations partly because the northwest coast and plateau differ in ways that can be expected to lead to differences in risk, and partly because of the availability of data for a wide range of risk-relevant variables. Our analyses suggest that the plateau was a more risky environment than the northwest coast. However, the predicted differences in the number and complexity of the populations' subsistence tools were not observed. The discrepancy between our results and those of previous tests of the risk hypothesis is not due to methodological differences. Rather, it seems to reflect an important but hitherto unappreciated feature of the relationship between risk and toolkit structure, namely that the impact of risk is dependent on the scale of the risk differences among populations.

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Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Strategies

Cited by 509 publications

References 26 publications

Desarrollo metodológico para el estudio de fuentes de aprovisionamiento lítico en la meseta central santacruceña, Patagonia argentina

Desarrollo metodológico para el estudio de fuentes de aprovisionamiento lítico en la meseta central santacruceña, Patagonia argentina

Cuatro Vientos: A Reconsideration of Seven Prehistoric Sites in the Lower Rio Grande Plains of South Texas

What drives the evolution of hunter–gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest

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