sedentism
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sedentism (uncountable)
(anthropology) a transitioning process that sees a nomadic population being placed into more permanent registrable settlements.
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Agriculture fed larger populations, and the transition to sedentism allowed simultaneously raising more children, as infants no longer needed to be carried, as nomadic ones must.
It is likely that most of the inhabitants had to give up sedentism and returned to life on the move.