| Abstract: |
This paper examines those shared characteristics of northern maritime hunting and fishing societies that set these groups apart from the prevailing hunter-gatherer model. I argue that the social and economic complexity of these northern coastal groups is linked to their sedentism. Sedentism, in turn, is connected to the nature of northern maritime resources, which tend to vary seasonally but not spatially and can, consequently, be efficiently exploited from a single central location. These northern coastal societies are not merely anomalous hunter-gatherers but represent part of the wide variety that characterizes the hunting and gathering pattern.
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