Mobile Farmers: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Settlement Organization Among the Raramuri of Northwestern Mexico

By Martha Graham

Book Overview

This ethnoarchaeological study of the settlements of the Rar muri focuses primarily on their mobility strategy. This group presents a case where the common equation of agriculturalists = sedentary, and hunter-gatherers = mobile is broken. The Rar muri are agriculturalists with a pattern of mobility between two or more settlements during the course of any year. Graham provides not only a description of this unusual pattern of mobility by a farming group, but also a number of insights and suggestions on how archaeologists can detect a mobile lifestyle in the residential areas of prehistoric agriculturalists

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879621169
• ISBN13: 9781879621169
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.9"