Description
Book SynopsisThere have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide collection of studies of the archaeology of mobility. This book provides a ready-made reference to this worldwide phenomenon and is unique in that it tries to redefine pastoralism within a larger context by the term mobility. It presents many new ideas and thoughtful approaches, especially in the Central Asian region.
Table of ContentsCh. 01: The Archaeology of Mobility: Definitions and Research Approaches by Willeke Wendrich and Hans Barnard
Part I: The Past in the Present
Ch. 02: Things to Do with Sheep and Goats: Neolithic Hunter-Forager-Herders in North Arabia by Alison Betts
Ch. 03: An Archaeology of Multisited Communities by Reinhard Bernbeck
Ch. 04: Archaeology and the Question of Mobile: Pastoralism in Late Prehistory by Abbas Alizadeh
Ch. 05: Desert Pastoral Nomadism in the Longue Durée: A Case Study from the Negev and the Southern by Levantine Deserts
Ch. 06: The Origin of the Tribe and of 'Industrial' Agropastoralism in Syro-Mesopotamia by Giorgio Buccellati
Ch. 07: Pastoral Nomadism in the Central Andes: A Historic Retrospective Example by David L. Browman
Ch. 08: Colonization, Structured Landscapes and Seasonal Mobility: An Examination of Early Paleo-Eskimo Land-Use Patterns in the Eastern Canadian Arctic by S. Brooke Milne
Ch. 09: The Emergence of Cultures of Mobility in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia: Evidence from the Intersection of Rock Art and Paleoenvironment by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Ch. 10: Nomadic Sites of the South Yergueni Hills on the Eurasian Steppe: Models of Seasonal Occupation and Production by Natalia I. Shishlina, Eugeny I. Gak and Alexander V. Borisov
Ch. 11: Trogodytes = Blemmyes = Beja? The Misuse of Ancient Ethnography by Stanley M. Burstein
Ch. 12: Is the Absence of Evidence, Evidence of Absence? Problems in the Archaeology of Early Herding Societies of Southern Africa by Andrew B. Smith
Ch. 13: The Social and Environmental Constraints on Mobility in the Late Prehistoric Upper Great Lakes Region by Margaret B. Holman and William A. Lovis
Ch. 14: Nomadic Potters: Relationships Between Ceramic Technologies and Mobility by Jelmer W. Eerkens
Part II: The Present in the Future
Ch. 15: Mobility and Sedentism of the Iron Age Agropastoralists of Southeast Kazakhstan by Claudia Chang
Ch. 16: Crossing Boundaries: Nomadic Groups and Ethnic Identities by Stuart T. Smith
Ch. 17: Variability and Dynamic Landscapes of Mobile Pastoralism in Ethnography and Prehistory by Michael D. Frachetti
Ch. 18: Mobility and Sedentarization in Late Bronze Age Syria by Jeffrey J. Szuchman
Ch. 19: Suggestions for a Chaîne Opératoire of Nomadic Pottery Sherds by Hans Barnard
Ch. 20: History of the Nomadic Architecture of the Hadendowa in Northeast Sudan by Anwar A-Magid
Ch. 21: The Bedouin Tent: An Ethno-Archaeological Portal to Antiquity or a Modern Construct? by Benjamin A. Saidel
Ch. 22: Naming the Waters: New Insights into the Nomadic Use of Oases in the Libyan Desert of Egypt by Alan Roe
Ch. 23: From Objects to Agents: The Ababda Nomads and the Interpretation of the Past by Willeke Wendrich
Ch. 24: No Room to Move: Mobility, Settlement and Conflict Among Mobile Peoples by Roger L. Cribb
Ch. 25: NOMAD: An Agent-Based Model (ABM) of Pastoralist-Agriculturalist Interaction by Lawrence A. Kuznar and Robert Sedlmeyer
