Mobility, Search Modes, and Food-Getting Technology

Fisher, Lynn

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0543-3_6

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“…It is widely acknowledged that hunter‐gatherers with different strategies move across the landscape differently (Fisher, 2002; Grove, 2010). Hence, the mobility of hunter‐gatherers is often used to track subsistence strategies in archaeological records (Henry, 1994; Villaverde et al, 1996; Holt, 2003; Conard et al, 2012; Jones, 2013, 2016).…”

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Energy regimes help tackle limitations with the prehistoric cultural‐phases approach to learn about sustainable transitions: Archaeological evidence from northern Spain

Alexandre

Sjoerd

José

et al. 2023

J Quaternary Science

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Human societies face challenges in transitioning towards low-carbon economies and sustainable management of land use and natural resources. Documenting and learning from past transitions helps policy-makers cope with such challenges. The agricultural revolution in Cantabrian Spain (ca. 7000 cal a BP) was one major adaptation of hunter-gatherers to a changing environment that started with the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 24 000 cal a BP) and lasted until the Mid-Holocene (ca. 5300 cal a BP). Classic approaches to documenting prehistoric cultural timelines are based on manufacturing and technology, thus limited in their ability to describe the sustainability of past societies. Energy regimes, a functional societal approach independent from time, investigate and consider patterns of resource and energy use in various cohabiting and cooperating cultural phases. To examine past energy regimes, a database of archaeological remains was compiled to document four indicators: mobility, economy, overexploitation and societal complexity. Statistical analyses were conducted to elucidate trends, changes and continuity in subsistence strategies by hunter-gatherers and sedentary societies. Results show that energy regimes act as a complement to cultural phases, adding novel functional analyses of past societies to cultural stratigraphy units common in archaeology, shedding light on the sustainability of past societal transitions.

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