I'm interested in its application to a large territory with an unequal distribution of postpalaeolithic sites. Thanks
Lew Binford's work with the Nunamuit Eskimo may be relevant as it addresses the use of very large "territories" or range as he calls the total extended use areas (~66,000 miles2). His ethnoarchaeological perspective on mobility and use of areas in different portions of their land use region is presented in the later chapters of his book that focuses primarily on hunting and faunal remains (Binford, Lewis R., 1978. Nunamuit Etnoarchaeology. Studies in Archaeology, Academic Press, New York. See: "Evidence for differences between residential and special purpose sites", pp. 488-497 in his "Conclusion"). He does not necessarily characterize the use of distant or infrequently used portions of the landscape as "peripheral", but he was concerned with the differential presence of recent or archaeological sites, variation in site structure, artifacts, and food remains in different areas of the same economic system. Much of his Nunamuit ethnoarchaeology looks at site variation in special purpose and distant sites within their large range to challenge the archaeological conventions of analytically identifiable similarities among all/most sites made by the same "culture" or social group. He has other relevant discussion of Nunamuit mobility and behavioral differences in distinct portions of their overall territory in the following articles:
Binford, Lewis R. 1977. Forty-seven trips: a case study in the character of archaeological formation processes. In Stone Tools as Cultural Markers, edited by R. V. S. Wright, pp. 24-36. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra.
Binford, Lewis R. 1978. Dimensional analysis of behavior and site structure: learning from an Eskimo hunting stand. American Antiquity 43 (3):330-361.
Binford, Lewis R. 1982. The archaeology of place. American Antiquity 45 (1):4-20.
Binford, Lewis R. 1979. Organization and formation processes: looking at curated technologies. Journal of Anthropological Research 35 (3):255-273. (looking at technology inventories/organization in non-resident sites, within the overall range use by Nunamuit)
See Chapters 5 & 6 in: Binford, Lewis R. 1983. In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record.Thames and Hudson, New York. (This book is also available in Spanish: 1988. En Busca del Pasado: Discifrando el Registro Arqueologico. Traduccion de Pepa Gasull. Critica, Barcelona.)
Binford, Lewis R. 1991. When the going gets tough the Tough get going: Nunamuit local groups, camping patterns and economic organization. In: Gamble, C. S. and W. A. Boismer (eds.), Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to Mobile Campsites: Hunter-Gatherers and Pastoralist Case Studies. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ethnoarchaeology Series 1, Ann Arbor.
Some additional refs:
Geoff Bailey et al., Ian Davidson, and Geoff Clark build on Binford's perspectives using zooarchaeologcial data in 3 chapters (pp. 59-110) in the following book: Bailey, Geoff (ed.), 1983. Hunter-gatherers Economy in Prehistory: A European Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Graham, Martha, 1993. Settlement organization and residential variability among the Raramuri. In: Cameron, Catherine M, and Steve A. Tomka (eds.), Abandonment and Settlement of Regions: Ethnoarchaological and Archaeological Approaches, pp.25-42. New Directions in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Also see the following more recent chapter in a volume I am a co-editer on (and the chapters by G. Politis, M. Alvard, and myself may also be of interest to you):
Kelly, Robert, Lin Poyer, and Bram Tucker. 2006. Mobility and houses in southwestern Madagascar: Etnoarchaeology among the Mikea and their neighbors. In: Sellet, Frederic, Russell D. Greaves, and Pei-Lin Yu (eds.), Archaeolgy and Etnoarchaeology of Mobility, pp. 75-107. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Check MONDINI, M., S. MUÑOZ and S. WICKLER
Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas. A Zooarchaeological Approach.
Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2004;
Many thanks Mr. Greaves and Ms. Scheinsohn for the references. Of course, Binford is the light. But some of the other refs (I didn't know) seem to be really interesting and useful. I'm really grateful for your answer.
Maybe thsee refs could also be intersting to anyone else. Thank you once again...
BINFORD, LR. 1980: “Willow smoke and dog’s tails: hunter-gatherer settlement systems and archaeological site formation”. American Antiquity 45,1:4-20.
BINFORD, L.R. 1990: “Mobility, housing and environment: a comparative study”. Journal of Anthropological Research 46, 2:119-152.
KELLY, R.L. 1983: “Hunter-gatherer mobility strategies”. Journal of Anthropological Research 39, 3:277-306.
SAMPSON, C.G. 1988: Stylistic boundaries among mobile hunter-foragers. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washingtong D.C.
SAMPSON, C.G. 1991: Social boundaries of mobile hunter-foragers. Smithsonian Museum. Washingtong D.C.
STARK, M.T. (Ed.) 1998: The archaeology of social boundaries. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washingtong D.C.
WELLS, R. 1973: “Frontier systems as a sociocultural type”. Papers in Anthropology 14:6-15. University of Oklahoma.
WILSEN, E.N. 1973: “Interaction, spacing behaviour and the organization of hunting bands”. Journal of Anthropological Research 29, 1:1-31. Albuquerque.
Although they deal with later more developed societies I found the following useful for my work on the development of frontiers within medieval estates. In particular how the legal background in some societies encouraged exploitation patterns that were focussed on the edge of territories rather than on the core as might be expected from economic theories such as the von Thunen Circles and Multiple Estates models. The phrase I coined was the 'Hollow Estate'.
Cline, EH (2000, Spring) “Contested peripheries” in World Systems Theory: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley as a test case, J of World-Systems Research, 6, 1, 7-16.
Lattimore, O (1940) Inner Asian Frontiers of China, New York, American Geographical Research Series # 21.
Many thanks Mr. T.E. Jones, every work is useful and can give us new ideas.
Saludos Manuel, you may also want to look at work by Rani Alexander who is at New Mexico State Univ and works on complex Mesoamerican societies and post colonial archaeology on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico ( [email protected]). Rani studies a number of frontier contexts that may be relevant to your interest in peripheral territorial use. In addition to the titles below that mention frontiers, several of her other publications may address peripheral areas, especially in relation to post-colonial Maya land use in the Yucatan.
Alexander, Rani T. and Sandra Andrade, 2007 Frontier Migration and the Built Environment in Southwestern Campeche. Estudios de Cultura Maya, vol XXX:175-196.
Alexander, Rani T. 2006 La Comunidad Postclásica en la Isla Cilvituk, Campeche: ¿Comprende una Frontera Interna? In Nuevas perspectivas sobre la geografía política de los mayas, edited by Tsubasa Okoshi Harada, Ana Luisa Izquierdo, and Lorraine Williams-Beck, pp. 233-268. Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM, México, D.F.
I realize this is likely not aligned with your specific research goals but I'll add to the mix
Pastoralists at the Periphery
Herders in a Capitalist World
By Claudia Chang; Harold A. Koster
Here are some of the many books and articles on Cahokia Mounds that relate to this question
Emerson, Thomas E. and R. Barry Lewis, editors
1991 CAHOKIA AND THE HINTERLANDS: MIDDLE MISSISSIPPIAN CULTURES OF THE MIDWEST. University of Illinois Press, Urbana. (17 contributors; also see individual listings))
Robert L. Hall: “Cahokia Identity and Interaction Models of Cahokia Mississippian”
David Rindos & Sissel Johannessen: “Human-Plant Interactions and Cultural Change in the American Bottom”
William I. Woods & George R. Holley: “Upland Mississippian Settlement in the American Bottom Region”
John E. Kelly: “Cahokia and its Role as a Gateway Center in Interregional Exchange”
Kenneth Farnsworth, Thomas E. Emerson & Rebecca Glenn: “Patterns of Late Woodland/Mississippian Interaction in the Lower Illinois Valley Drainage: A View from Starr Village”
Lawrence A. Conrad: “The Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Central Illinois River Valley”
Alan D. Harn: "Comments on Subsistence, Seasonality and Site Function at Upland Subsidiaries in the Spoon River Area: Mississippianization at Work on the Northern Frontier.”
Thomas E. Emerson: “The Apple River Mississippian Culture of Northern Illinois”
Joseph A. Tiffany: “Models of Mississippian Culture History in the Western Prairie Peninsula: A Perspective from Iowa”
Lynne G. Goldstein and John D. Richards: “Ancient Aztalan: The Cultural and Ecological Context of a Late Prehistoric Site in the Midwest”
Guy E. Gibbon: “The Middle Mississippian Presence in Minnesota”
Thomas E. Emerson: “Some Perspectives on Cahokia and the Northern Mississippian Expansion”
Charles R. Moffat: Mississippian in the Upper Kaskaskia Valley: “New Data from Lake Shelbyville and New Interpretations”.
Robert J. Barth: “The Emergence of the Vincennes Culture in the Lower Wabash Drainage”
Brian M. Butler: Kincaid Revisited: “The Mississippian Sequence in the Lower Ohio Valley”
R. Barry Lewis: “The Early Mississippian Period in the Confluence Region & Its Northern Relationships"
Pauketat, Timothy R. and Thomas E. Emerson, editors
1997 CAHOKIA: DOMINATION AND IDEOLOGY IN THE MISSISSIPPIAN WORLD
University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. (13 Contributors: also see individual entries)
Pauketat & Emerson: Intro: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World
Pauketat: Cahokian Political Economy
Lopinot, Neal: Cahokian Food Production Reconsidered
Kelly, Lucretia: Patterns of Faunal Exploitation at Cahokia
Dalan, Rinita: The Construction of Mississippian Cahokia
Pauketat and Lopinot: Cahokian Population Dynamics
Collins, James: Cahokia Settlement and Social Structures as Viewed from the ICT-II
Kelly, John: Stirling Phase Sociopolitical Activity at East St. Louis and Cahokia
Emerson, Thomas: Reflections from the Countryside on Cahokian Hegemony
Emerson, Thomas: Cahokian Elite Ideology and the Mississippian Cosmos
Knight, Jr., Vernon: Some Developmental Parallels between Cahokia and Moundville
Anderson, David: The Role of Cahokia in the Evolution of Southeastern Mississippian Society
Pauketat and Emerson: Conclusion: Cahokia and the Four Winds
Pauketat, Timothy R. and Susan M. Alt, editors
2015 MEDIEVAL MISSISSIPPIANS: THE CAHOKIAN WORLD. School for Advanced Research Press. Santa Fe, NM.
(Edited volume with 17 contributors)
Medieval Life in America's Heartland, Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt
Cahokia's Coles Creek Predecessors, Vincas P. Steponaitas, Megan C. Kassabaum, John W. O'Hear
An American Indian City, Timothy R. Pauketat, Thomas E. Emerson, Michael G. Farkas, Sarah E. Baires
Moonwatchers of Cahokia, William F. Romain
An Umonhon Perspective, Marisa Miakonda Cummings
Mississippians and Maize, Amber M. VanDerwarker
The Earth Goddess Cult at Cahokia, Thomas E. Emerson
Early Mississippian Outposts in the North, Robert F. Boszhardt, Danielle M. Benden, Timothy R. Pauketat
The Game of Chunkey, Thomas J. Zych
The Fabric of Mississippian Society, Susan M. Alt
Lost Mississippian Towns Found on the Ohio, Staffan Peterson
Visualizing a Medieval Mississippian Town, Fred Limp, Snow Winters, Angie Payne
Crafting the Medieval Landscape with Stone Tools, Brad H. Koldehoff
Incinerated Villages to the North, Greg D. Wilson
Mississippians in a Foreign Land, Robert Cook
Being Chickasaw at Shiloh, Donna J. Rausch
The Rise and Demise of Mississippian Capitals in the Southeast, Charles R. Cobb, Adam King
Stoltman, James B., editor
1991 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CAHOKIA: VIEWS FROM THE PERIPHERY. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 2. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin. (16 contributors; also see individual listings)
Melvin L. Fowler: Mound 72 and Early Mississippian at Cahokia
George R. Milner: American Bottom Mississippian Cultures: Internal Developments and External Relations
Richard W. Yerkes: Specialization in Shell Artifact Production at Cahokia
John E. Kelly: The Evidence for Prehistoric Exchange and its Implications for the Development of Cahokia
Jeffrey P. Brain: Cahokia from the Southern Periphery
Mark A. McConaughy: The Rench Site Late Late Woodland/Mississippian Farming Hamlet from the Central Illinois River Valley: Food for Thought
Alan D. Harn: The Eveland Site: Inroad to Spoon River Mississippian Society
John Claflin: The Shire Site: Mississippian Outpost in the Central Illinois Prairie
Charles W. Markman: Above the American Bottom: The Late Woodland-Mississippian Transitions in Northeast Illinois
Lynne G. Goldstein: The Implications of Aztalan's Location
Fred A. Finney and James B. Stoltman: The Fred Edwards Site: A Case of Stirling Phase Culture in Southwestern Wisconsin
Roland L. Rodell: The Diamond Bluff Site Complex and Cahokia Influence in the Red Wing Locality
Guy E. Gibbon and Clark A. Dobbs: The Mississippian Presence in the Red Wing Area, Minnesota
Elden Johnson: Cambria and Cahokia's Northwestern Periphery
Joseph A. Tiffany: Modeling Mill Creek-Mississippian Interaction
James B. Stoltman: Cahokia as Seen from the Peripheries
Alt, Susan M
2002 Identities, Traditions and Diversity in Cahokia’s Uplands. MIDCONTINENTAL JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 27, pp. 217-236
Pauketat, Timothy R.
1998 Refiguring the Archaeology of Greater Cahokia. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 6, No. 1
2004 ANCIENT CAHOKIA AND THE MISSISSIPPIANS. Cambridge University Press. U.K.
Mehrer, Mark W.
1995 CAHOKIA'S COUNTRYSIDE: HOUSEHOLD ARCHAEOLOGY, SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, AND SOCIAL POWER. Northern Illinois University Press. Dekalb.
Milner, George R.
1990 The Late Prehistoric Cahokia Cultural System of the Mississippi River Valley: Foundations, Fluorescence and Fragmentation. JOURNAL OF WORLD PREHISTORY, 4 (1), pp. 1-43.
1998 THE CAHOKIA CHIEFDOM. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington DC.
Milner, George R. and Sissel Schroeder
1999 Mississippian Sociopolitical Systems. In: GREAT TOWNS AND REGIONAL POLITIES IN THE PREHISTORIC AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST, edited by Jill E. Neitzel. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.
Kelly, John E.
1991a Cahokia and its Role as a Gateway Center in Interregional Exchange. In CAHOKIA AND THE HINTERLANDS: MIDDLE MISSISSIPPIAN CULTURES OF THE MIDWEST, edited by Thomas E. Emerson and R. Barry Lewis, pp. 61-80. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
2000 The Nature and Context of Emergent Mississippian Cultural Dynamics in the Greater American Bottom. In LATE WOODLAND SOCIETIES: TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION ACROSS THE MIDCONTINENT, edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Dale L. McElrath and Andrew C. Fortier, pp 163-175. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Emerson, Thomas E.
2012 Cahokia Interaction and Ethnogenesis in the Northern Midcontinent. In THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY, edited by Timothy R. Pauketat, pp.398-409. University of Oxford Press, Oxford and New York.
1992 The Mississippian Dispersed Village as a Social and Environmental Strategy. In: LATE PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE: Observations from the Midwest. Edited by William I. Woods. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 8, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.
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