Here is a short analysis on sedentism archaeology, how sedentism came into lifestyle of ancient human civilization.
What is Sedentism in Archaeology and Ancient History?
Sedentism is the process by which nomads settled and got permanent locations. Nomads were those who had no permanent abode but used to move from one place to another in search of fresh pasture for their livestock.
It is true that the earliest humans were hunters. They moved from place to place in search of nutriment. But gradually our ancient ancestors found locations where the climatic conditions were good and favorable. The natural resources were abundant enough to enable them to stay in the same place year-round, year on year. They adopted the lifestyle known as sedentism.
Now we must know how that lifestyle came into existence facing issues. The earliest sedentary cultures developed between around 25,000 BCE and 17,000 BCE in Moravia which is now a part of Czech Republic. It was also on the plains of western Russia, where people went hunting and fishing from permanent bases. In around 10,000 BCE the Natufians-who had by then been settled for at least 2,000 years in parts of modern-day
Israel, Jordan, and Syria They started to cultivate plants. This development occurred at about the same time when the Jomon in Japan first cultivated rice. By 5000 BCE early Scandinavians had established sedentary sites where they grew barley and other plants by raising cattle for milk, meat, and hide.
A fixed abode to a life a life of was not natural really. But this aroused many questions in the mind of archeologists and historians. This major change in human behaviour came because they had started to grow crops and to domesticate animals. Sedentism is a consequence of agriculture, or vice versa. However this development was very crucial to the establishment of modern civilization.