Sedentary isn't the word you're looking for.

what word would you suggest?

Homebodies, grounded, rooted?

settled, static, parochial

Domesticated.

One of the dictionary definitions of “sedentary” refers to living in the same spot and not traveling, usually used in anthropology to talk about non-nomadic populations.

> Humans have been traveling pretty much their entire existence. Being sedentary seems to be a much more recent development.

With the development of agriculture, people staying in one place seems to have been the normal for a while now.

Even with the hunter-gatherer societies we know about, AIUI, they tend to have a village/community from which they go out from, i.e., they are 'non-migratory'.

I think you're referring to the agricultural revolution, before which humans were hunter-gatherers. But even when people were moving around a lot, they didn't go very far, and I don't think it was for the same reasons.

> Hunter-gatherers tends to have much greater home ranges than pre-industrial sedentary farmers. It has been estimated that pre-industrial English people living in small townships would have had a home range of 900 hectares (9 km2), close to that predicted for an omnivorous mammal of their same body mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution