An Exploration of the Relationship between Mobility and Sedentism in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica

s reduce their mobility to the point where they remain residentially stationary year-round" and sedentary settlement systems as "thoses in which at least part of the population remains at the same location throughout the entire year" (Kelly 49). Sedentism has emerged at different places around the world in association with both hunting and gathering and farming adaptations (Hard and Merrill). For many years, sedentism was thought to be incompatible with a foraging lifeway, reexamination of the archaeological record of certain areas in North America including the Northwest Coast, the Midwest, the Southwest, and Mesoamerica are changing this contrived notion. Most anthropologists and archaeologists focus on the "sedentarization process because reduced mobility precipitates dramatic changes in food storage, trade, territoriality, social and gender inequality, male/female work patterns, subsistence and demography as well as cultural notions of material wealth, privacy, individuality, cooperation and competition" (Kelley 43).
             In current Southwestern archaeology the interrelated issues of agricultural commitment, sedentism and mobility are currently being researched and studied in a detailed manner, in order to assess the true reliance on agriculture and the duration of residential settlements by the community. "Villages may have been permanent over many years, occupied year round for a few years, occupied seasonally, reoccupied at intervals
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