The uneven spatial and temporal output of resources needed for survival was the fundamental reason for the development of both long-term and seasonal settlement subsistence systems in prehistoric populations.By summarizing criteria for determining long-term and seasonal settlements and analyzing typical cases such as the Xinkailiu-Rudnaya culture,the Cishan-Beifudi culture,and early nomadic cultures,this study demonstrates that subsistence settlement systems combining long-term and seasonal sedentism existed during stages of"broad-spectrum resource utilization"and"low-level food production"in the transition from hunter-gatherers to sedentary agriculturalists,as well as during the"specialized utilization of non-agricultural ecologies"phase that paralleled mature agricultural societies.
Subsistence Settlement SystemLong-term SedentismSeasonal SedentismDetermining IndicatorPrehistoric Period
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