The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism

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Pub. Date: 2008-07-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Table of Contents

The Archaeology of Mobility: Definitions and Research Approachesp. 1
The Past at Present
Things to Do with Sheep and Goats: Neolithic Hunter-Forager-Herders in North Arabiap. 25
An Archaeology of Multisited Communitiesp. 43
Archaeology and the Question of Mobile Pastoralism in Late Prehistoryp. 78
Desert Pastoral Nomadism in the Longue Duree: A Case Study from the Negev and the Southern Levantine Desertsp. 115
The Origin of the Tribe and of 'Industrial' Agropastoralism in Syro-Mesopotamiap. 141
Pastoral Nomadism in the Central Andes: A Historic Retrospective Examplep. 160
Colonization, Structured Landscapes and Seasonal Mobility: An Examination of Early Paleo-Eskimo Land-Use Patterns in the Eastern Canadian Arcticp. 174
The Emergence of Cultures of Mobility in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia: Evidence from the Intersection of Rock Art and Paleoenvironmentp. 200
Nomadic Sites of the South Yergueni Hills on the Eurasian Steppe: Models of Seasonal Occupation and Productionp. 230
Trogodytes = Blemmyes = Beja? The Misuse of Ancient Ethnographyp. 250
Is the Absence of Evidence, Evidence of Absence? Problems in the Archaeology of Early Herding Societies of Southern Africap. 264
The Social and Environmental Constraints on Mobility in the Late Prehistoric Upper Great Lakes Regionp. 280
Nomadic Potters: Relationships Between Ceramic Technologies and Mobilityp. 307
The Present and the Future
Mobility and Sedentism of the Iron Age Agropastoralists of Southeast Kazakhstanp. 329
Crossing Boundaries: Nomadic Groups and Ethnic Identitiesp. 343
Variability and Dynamic Landscapes of Mobile Pastoralism in Ethnography and Prehistoryp. 366
Mobility and Sedentarization in Late Bronze Age Syriap. 397
Suggestions for a Chaine Operatoire of Nomadic Pottery Sherdsp. 413
History of the Nomadic Architecture of the Hadendowa in Northeast Sudanp. 441
The Bedouin Tent: An Ethno-Archaeological Portal to Antiquity or a Modern Construct?p. 465
Naming the Waters: New Insights into the Nomadic Use of Oases in the Libyan Desert of Egyptp. 487
From Objects to Agents: The Ababda Nomads and the Interpretation of the Pastp. 509
No Room to Move: Mobility, Settlement and Conflict Among Mobile Peoplesp. 543
NOMAD: An Agent-Based Model (ABM) of Pastoralist-Agriculturalist Interactionp. 557
List of Contributorsp. 584
List of Figuresp. 587
List of Tablesp. 591
Indexp. 592
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