Archaeologists typically use similarities in material culture-from house types to styles of pottery-to reconstruct communities in the past. Therefore, a small village settlement likely constituted a social community and spatial subdivisions of cities and other large settlements may have formed communities. Most reconstructions of social communities by archaeologists rely on the principle that social interaction in the past was conditioned by physical distance. Social interaction on a small scale can be difficult to identify with archaeological data. The second meaning resembles the usage of the term in other social sciences: a community is a group of people living near one another who interact socially. In this sense it is synonymous with the concept of an ancient settlement-whether a hamlet, village, town, or city. The first is an informal definition of community as a place where people used to live. Perspectives of various disciplines Archaeology Īrchaeological studies of social communities use the term "community" in two ways, paralleling usage in other areas. Human communities may have intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, and risks in common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness. The English-language word "community" derives from the Old French comuneté ( Modern French: communauté), which comes from the Latin communitas "community", "public spirit" (from Latin communis, "common"). Although communities are usually small relative to personal social ties, "community" may also refer to large group affiliations such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities. Durable good relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family, home, work, government, society, or humanity at large.
a country, village, town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity.
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