Household networks and emergent territory

A GIS study of Chumash households, villages and rock-art in South-Central California

Bibliographic Data

ID3918832
AuthorsDavid Robinson (0000-0002-0729-5011, University of Lancashire, corresponding author), Michelle Wienhold (University of Iowa)
Year2016
Volume48
Issue3
Pages363-380
Publication date2016-05-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2016.1185378
OpenAlexW2470009471
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

Elite households of the Californian Chumash have been studied in order to understand the development of Late Holocene hunter-gatherer alliance networks. Equally, models of what has been termed ‘tribelet territories’ have been used to describe land ownership within larger Californian concepts. Surprisingly little research has explicitly addressed issues of how such territories may have developed. In this article, we turn to DeLanda’s philosophy of social complexity to consider how Chumash households may have underpinned the development of tribelet territories and the political implications for their articulation with wider alliances. Importantly, utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we analyse potential mobility patterns in relation to households, villages and rock-art locales in a case from the Emigdiano Chumash. The results suggest that the painting of rock art was imbricated within processes of territorialization, and that the local placement of art reflects which villages were home to particularly high-status households

Alliance · Archaeology · Articulation (sociology · Economic geography · Elite · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Rock art · Social complexity · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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