Problems of Recognizing Earliest Sedentism
The Natufian Example
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12222016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip C Edwards (The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-48 |
| Publication date | 1989-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-7648 • E-ISSN: 1743-1700 |
| Publisher | Sheffield Academic Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jmea.v2i1.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2317172791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
Natufian period settlements have been proposed as key examples of pre-agricultural sedentism. This paper examines that proposition and concludes that Natufian residential sites are as likely to represent the residues of a semi-mobile mode of settlement. However, the main point to be made here is that a rigorous methodology for distinguishing between the prehistoric settlement remains of sedentary, semi-mobile and mobile hunter-gatherers is lacking. Investigation into the rates at which sedimentation occurs, and into the practice of superposition of building units in both ethnographic transhumant and sedentary villages is seen as a fruitful avenue of research on this subject
Archaeology · Ethnography · Geography · Human settlement · Prehistory · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2025 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |