It was not until the transition from the hunter-gatherer, wandering phase to the first permanent or semi-permanent settlements - known by archaeologists as 'sedentism' - that the evidence began to build up in any quantity. ❋ Jan (2008)
The general notion is that as populations shifted their subsistence from foraging to agriculture their settlement pattern changed from mobility to sedentism. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Anthropologists believe that “sedentism”—the transition from life on the move to staying put—was the most important ism of all. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)
The idea is that people might initially have practiced a degree of sedentism in areas where there were rich resources, because there was no need to move. ❋ Unknown (2006)
You describe the societies as succumbing to "opportunistic sedentism." ❋ Unknown (2006)
Wilson traced the roots of human sedentism back to our evolutionary heritage as primates, and particularly the highly developed visual abilities of members of the primate order. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
Over the past several decades, archaeologists and anthropologists trying to explain sedentism and the Neolithic Revolution have swung back and forth between opposing types of explanations. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
Could I come up with a story that would trace the roots of sedentism and human community back to our very origins? ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
For one thing, a number of excavations in the Near East had since demonstrated that sedentism—living in permanent or semipermanent houses or other structures—sometimes preceded agriculture by thousands of years. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
Like Ian Hodder, Wilson began by assuming that sedentism had preceded the invention of agriculture and that the house, as he put it, was “a dominant cultural symbol and a central rallying point and context for social organization and activity.” ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
One quite recent discovery suggests strongly that sedentism was a gradual development in human prehistory rather than an all-or-nothing affair. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
I had not, of course, necessarily solved the mysteries of sedentism and human communities. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
This point of view, she charged, revealed a “strong techno-environmental bias” on the part of processual archaeologists, which Bender declared to be “unacceptable”—especially as an explanation of sedentism—because it left out social and cultural factors. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
The rise of sedentism, along with population growth, probably also contributed to this great next leap in human development, they suggested. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
Moreover, since sedentism apparently came first, settled human life cannot be considered simply a byproduct of the agricultural revolution. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
Meanwhile research in the New World has opened an even greater time gap between plant domestication and sedentism, although in the reverse direction: archaeobotanists working in Mexico, Panama, and Ecuador have recently found evidence that humans began domesticating squashes some 10,000 years ago, about 5,000 years before they began to settle in permanent villages. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
As for the development of agriculture, Bender dealt with it only briefly, assuming that increasing sedentism would logically result in increased local exploitation of resources and the invention of farming. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
Thus has the hammer of scientific evidence broken one link after another in the chain that once bound sedentism and agriculture together. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
The mysteries of sedentism were relegated to a much lower place on the research agenda. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
The first cereals were cultivated around 11,000 years ago, but there are at least tentative signs of sedentary behavior going back to the Upper Paleolithic, more than 20,000 years ago, and true sedentism appears to have arisen in the Near East just after 13,000 years ago, before the Holocene officially began. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
"[Topher] looks into [Oakleys] eyes [sedently]." ❋ SagePoopPant (2023)
The study provided [empirical evidence] that : Long-term [Sedentation] causes much more serious health risks than smoking, particularly prior to & immediately post [surgery]. ❋ Shep Thundersun (2016)
