Transition from nomadic lifestyle to a society that remains in one place permanently
For the lifestyle associated with poor health outcomes, see Sedentary lifestyle.
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In cultural anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism[1]) is the practice of living in one place for a long time. As of 2024, the large majority of people belong to sedentary cultures. In evolutionary anthropology and archaeology, sedentism takes on a slightly different sub-meaning, often applying to the transition from nomadic society to a lifestyle that involves remaining in one place permanently. Essentially, sedentism means living in groups permanently in one place.[2] The invention of agriculture led to sedentism in many cases, but the earliest sedentary settlements were pre-agricultural.
^Gabaccia, Donna R. (2012). "17: Food, mobility, and world history". In Pilcher, Jeffrey M. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Food History. Oxford Handbooks in History. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-0199729937. Retrieved 9 January 2017. This assumption that civilized peoples were largely immobile has sometimes been labeled as sendentarying or sedentarism.
Look up sedentism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In cultural anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the...
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in...
by the Franks around the 5th century. This was followed by a period of sedentism under first Merovingian and then Carolingian rule. With the completion...
development of agriculture, and the beginning of sedentism. The major developments in agriculture and sedentism during this time allowed for the rise of complex...
marginalized and eventually disappeared. Mesolithic adaptations such as sedentism, population size and use of plant foods are cited as evidence of the transition...
predominantly hunter-gatherer culture that reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. The name Jōmon, meaning "cord-marked", was first...
9–13. ISBN 978-0-13-357005-2. "The Consequences of Domestication and Sedentism by Emily Schultz, et al". Primitivism.com. Archived from the original...
spend their days differently. For example, nomadic life differs from sedentism, and among the sedentary, urban people live differently from rural folk...
anthropologist Sub-discipline Pre-Columbian era Mesoamerica origins of agriculture sedentism cultural evolution zooarchaeology Institutions University of Michigan...
the Mesoamerican cultural tradition are: Horticulture and plant use: sedentism based on maize agriculture; floating gardens; use of bark paper and agave...
may have been found in Mesoamerica at least since the beginning of the sedentism, or the settling of the nomadic population, which took place in the eighth...
haplogroups Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Belfer-Cohen, Anna (1989). "The Origins of Sedentism and Farming Communities in the Levant". Journal of World Prehistory. 3...
as Ireland. Agriculture fed larger populations, and the transition to sedentism allowed for the simultaneous raising of more children, as infants no longer...
societies indicate an initial period of intensification and increasing sedentism; examples are the Natufian culture in the Levant, and the Early Chinese...
and the Sinai Peninsula. The Levant is one of the earliest centers of sedentism and agriculture throughout history, and some of the earliest agrarian...
environmental conditions. The progression of residential mobility towards sedentism is evident in the groups of coastal Ostrobothnia. By the mid-Subneolithic...
antiquity, forming the basis of trade since the dawn of commerce and sedentism during the Neolithic Revolution. A notable early modern development in...
"Neolithic Revolution" and the onset of domestication, food production, and sedentism, although archaeologists now recognise that these trends began in the...
is the time of flourishing of the Natufian culture and development of sedentism among the hunter-gatherers. This culture existed from about 13,000 to...
institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century Sedentism, the practice of living in one place for a long time Squatting, occupying...
Retrieved 20 August 2017. [...] The Neolithic transition involved increasing sedentism and social complexity, which was usually followed by the gradual adoption...
Chocolate in the New World." Antiquity 81 (2007). Rosenswig, Robert M. "Sedentism and food production in early complex societies of the Soconusco, Mexico...
Different groups abandoned tribal lifeways for increasing complexity, sedentism, centralization, and agriculture. Production of surplus corn and attractions...
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