The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism

by Barnard, Hans

• ISBN13: 9781931745505
• ISBN10: 1931745501
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

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Table of Contents

The Archaeology of Mobility: Definitions and Research Approaches	p. 1
The Past at Present
Things to Do with Sheep and Goats: Neolithic Hunter-Forager-Herders in North Arabia	p. 25
An Archaeology of Multisited Communities	p. 43
Archaeology and the Question of Mobile Pastoralism in Late Prehistory	p. 78
Desert Pastoral Nomadism in the Longue Duree: A Case Study from the Negev and the Southern Levantine Deserts	p. 115
The Origin of the Tribe and of 'Industrial' Agropastoralism in Syro-Mesopotamia	p. 141
Pastoral Nomadism in the Central Andes: A Historic Retrospective Example	p. 160
Colonization, Structured Landscapes and Seasonal Mobility: An Examination of Early Paleo-Eskimo Land-Use Patterns in the Eastern Canadian Arctic	p. 174
The Emergence of Cultures of Mobility in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia: Evidence from the Intersection of Rock Art and Paleoenvironment	p. 200
Nomadic Sites of the South Yergueni Hills on the Eurasian Steppe: Models of Seasonal Occupation and Production	p. 230
Trogodytes = Blemmyes = Beja? The Misuse of Ancient Ethnography	p. 250
Is the Absence of Evidence, Evidence of Absence? Problems in the Archaeology of Early Herding Societies of Southern Africa	p. 264
The Social and Environmental Constraints on Mobility in the Late Prehistoric Upper Great Lakes Region	p. 280
Nomadic Potters: Relationships Between Ceramic Technologies and Mobility	p. 307
The Present and the Future
Mobility and Sedentism of the Iron Age Agropastoralists of Southeast Kazakhstan	p. 329
Crossing Boundaries: Nomadic Groups and Ethnic Identities	p. 343
Variability and Dynamic Landscapes of Mobile Pastoralism in Ethnography and Prehistory	p. 366
Mobility and Sedentarization in Late Bronze Age Syria	p. 397
Suggestions for a Chaine Operatoire of Nomadic Pottery Sherds	p. 413
History of the Nomadic Architecture of the Hadendowa in Northeast Sudan	p. 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 Egypt	p. 487
From Objects to Agents: The Ababda Nomads and the Interpretation of the Past	p. 509
No Room to Move: Mobility, Settlement and Conflict Among Mobile Peoples	p. 543
NOMAD: An Agent-Based Model (ABM) of Pastoralist-Agriculturalist Interaction	p. 557
List of Contributors	p. 584
List of Figures	p. 587
List of Tables	p. 591
Index	p. 592
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