scholarly journals Lithic industries, territory and mobility in the western Linear Pottery Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Allard ◽  
Solène Denis
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Mixed Farming ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Long Distance Relationships ◽  
Procurement Strategies ◽  
High Degree

Territory is a complex notion whose definition varies depending on the discipline in which it is applied. Research on the notion of territory has often focused on the Palaeolithic. Studies in this field are mainly based on comparisons between archaeological assemblages and ethnographic data, an approach originating from the work of L.R. Binford, who introduced the concept of mobility, leading to various models of spatial occupation. How have researchers approached the notion of territory with regard to the first mixed farming populations of the Linear Pottery Culture in the Seine Basin and neighbouring regions? Can lithic industries contribute to our understanding of how these first sedentary populations perceived their territory? In this paper, we show that these first Neolithic communities likely obtained their siliceous materials via direct procurement strategies across a territory that they knew well and regularly frequented. In our study area, centred around the Rhine-Meuse region and the Seine Basin, two distinct litho-spaces are comprised of: 1) small numbers of minor territories with local resources, and 2) vast territories requiring greater mobility among the groups that occupied them. Furthermore, the procurement strategies of the occupants of the regions with few siliceous resources seem to have been based on long-distance relationships and networks. In this case, a high degree of mobility and ensuing social relations would have contributed to the attractivity of villages.

scholarly journals Do people manage climate risk through long-distance relationships?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Pisor ◽  
James Holland Jones
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Local Adaptations ◽  
The Us ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Long Distance Relationships ◽  
Managing Risk

OBJECTIVES. Long-distance social relationships have been a feature of human evolutionary history; evidence from the paleoanthropological, archaeological, and ethnographic records suggest that one function of these relationships is to manage the risk of resource shortfalls due to climate variability. We should expect long-distance relationships to be especially important when shortfalls are chronic or temporally positively autocorrelated, as these are more likely to exhaust local adaptations for managing risk. Further, individuals who experience shortfalls not as rare shocks, but as patterned events, should be more likely to pay the costs of maintaining long-distance relationships. We test these hypotheses in the context of two communities of Bolivian horticulturalists, where climate variability – especially precipitation variability – is relevant to production and access to long-distance connections is improving. METHODS. Data on individuals’ migration histories, social relationships, and other relevant variables were collected in 2017 (n=119). Precipitation data were obtained from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, allowing us to estimate participants’ exposure to drought and excess precipitation. RESULTS. Exposure duration, proximity in time, and frequency did not predict having a greater number of long-distance relationships. Males, extraverted individuals, and those who had traveled more did have more long-distance relationships, however. CONCLUSION. Another function of long-distance relationships is to access resources that can never be obtained locally; ethnographic data suggest this is their primary function in rural Bolivia. We conclude by refining our predictions about the conditions under which long-distance relationships are likely to help individuals manage the risks posed by climate variability.

Biotelemetry and Computer Analysis of Electrocardiograms

1969 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 120-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Amlinger
Keyword(s):  
Computer Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Regional Medical ◽  
Medical Program

Routine transmission of electrocardiograms and their computer interpretation via long-distance telephone lines has been proven feasible in the Automated Electrocardiogram Project of the Missouri Regional Medical Program. Though this Pilot Project — the first on a state-wide basis — is still viewed as an applied research effort rather than a service, such biotelemetry is rapidly gaining acceptance as a medium to bring modern medicine, through modern technology, to urban and remote rural areas as well, where it is most needed.The computer executes all the wave measuraments and calculations with incredible speed. It takes over a most boring, repetitive part of the physician’s work. However, it can only follow the instructions of the diagnostic program, compiled by expert cardiologists. Thus, it is an ever-ready, never-tiring servant for the physician and his patients.

scholarly journals The Life and Death of a Child: Mortuary and Bodily Manifestations of Coast–Interior Interactions during the Late Formative Period (AD 100–400), Northern Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Christina Torres-Rouff ◽  
Gonzalo Pimentel ◽  
William J. Pestle ◽  
Mariana Ugarte ◽  
Kelly J. Knudson
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Northern Chile ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Interregional Interaction ◽  
Intercultural Identity ◽  
Late Formative

Camelid pastoralism, agriculture, sedentism, surplus production, increasing cultural complexity, and interregional interaction during northern Chile's Late Formative period (AD 100–400) are seen in the flow of goods and people over expanses of desert. Consolidating evidence of material culture from these interactions with a bioarchaeological dimension allows us to provide details about individual lives and patterns in the Late Formative more generally. Here, we integrate a variety of skeletal, chemical, and archaeological data to explore the life and death of a small child (Calate-3N.7). By taking a multiscalar approach, we present a narrative that considers not only the varied materiality that accompanies this child but also what the child's life experience was and how this reflects and shapes our understanding of the Late Formative period in northern Chile. This evidence hints at the profound mobility of their youth. The complex mortuary context reflects numerous interactions and long-distance relationships. Ultimately, the evidence speaks to deep social relations between two coastal groups, the Atacameños and Tarapaqueños. Considering this suite of data, we can see a child whose life was spent moving through desert routes and perhaps also glimpse the construction of intercultural identity in the Formative period.

Relationship Quality, Commitment, and Stability in Long-Distance Relationships

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen Kelmer ◽  
Galena K. Rhoades ◽  
Scott Stanley ◽  
Howard J. Markman
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Long Distance Relationships
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