Ancient Nomads Of The Eurasian And North American Grasslands

Author : Elena Ponomarenko,Ian G. Dyck
Publisher : Canadian Museum of History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : 0660197715

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Ancient Nomads of the Eurasian and North American Grasslands by Elena Ponomarenko,Ian G. Dyck Pdf

Nomadic lifestyles dependent on herd animals developed independently on the grasslands of Eurasia and North America about 5,000 years ago. The landscapes that these peoples occupied were generally similar, but the basis of their nomadism was quite different. Eurasian steppe nomads relied on domestic sheep, goats, cattle and horses for their subsistence and on horses, cattle and, to a limited extent, camels for their travel; North American prairie nomads relied on wild bison for subsistence and on themselves and dogs for travel. In comparing the two lifestyles, this study shows that certain features, such as the use of circular portable dwellings, seasonal rhythms of movement, and minimalist material cultures, were quite similar; but other features, such as the use of metals, access to urban civilizations, the nature and scale of warfare, and overall population sizes, were very different. Yet, both kinds of nomadism dominated their respective landscapes until being supplanted by European or EuroAmerican expansionism between about 300 to 150 years ago.

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191008825

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Horse Nations by Peter Mitchell Pdf

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains. Horse Nations provides the first wide-ranging and up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the horse on the Indigenous societies of North and South America, southern Africa, and Australasia following its introduction as a result of European contact post-1492. Drawing on sources in a variety of languages and on the evidence of archaeology, anthropology, and history, the volume outlines the transformations that the acquisition of the horse wrought on a diverse range of groups within these four continents. It explores key topics such as changes in subsistence, technology, and belief systems, the horse's role in facilitating the emergence of more hierarchical social formations, and the interplay between ecology, climate, and human action in adopting the horse, as well as considering how far equestrian lifestyles were ultimately unsustainable.

Author : Mariya Ivanova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Black Sea Region
ISBN : 9781107241664

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The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia by Mariya Ivanova Pdf

This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period.

Author : Tara Fenwick,Lesley Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136729348

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Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research by Tara Fenwick,Lesley Farrell Pdf

This volume is unique in bringing together these wide-ranging issues of knowledge mobilization in education. The volume editors critically analyse these complex issues and also describe various efforts of knowledge mobilization and their effects. While the contributors themselves speak from diverse material, occupational and theoretical locations.

Author : Stephan Barisitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319512136

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Central Asia and the Silk Road by Stephan Barisitz Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia. By analyzing an abundance of sources and materials, it illustrates the repeated economic heydays of the Silk Road, during which it linked the Orient and Occident for many centuries. Nomadic steppe empires frequently dominated Central Asia, molded its economy and influenced trade along the Silk Road. The book assesses the causes and effects of the wide-ranging overland trade booms, while also discussing various internal and external factors that led to the gradual economic decline of Central Asia and eventual demise of the Silk Road. Lastly, it explains how the economic decline gave rise to Chinese and Russian colonialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Detailed information, e.g. on the Silk Road’s trajectories in various epochs, is offered in the form of numerous newly drafted maps.

Author : William R. Thompson,Leila Zakhirova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000403008

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Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa by William R. Thompson,Leila Zakhirova Pdf

Environmental factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have played a crucial role in the historical and social development of the region. The book delves into a broad set of historical literature from the past 15,000 years that neglected to consider environmental factors to their full effect. Beyond the broad historic analysis, the chapters derive conclusions for today’s debate on whether climate change leads to more social conflict and violence. Introducing a theoretical framework focused on adaptive cycling, this book probes and refines the role of climate in ancient and modern political-economic systems in the MENA region. It also underscores just how bad the 21st-century environment may become thanks to global warming. While the MENA region may not survive the latest onslaught of deteriorating climate, there is also some interest in how a region that once led the world in introducing all sorts of innovations thousands of years ago has evolved into a contemporary setting characterized by traditional conservatism, poverty, and incessant strife. Emphasizing regional dynamics, the book's central question deals with the role of climate change in the rise and decline of the MENA region. The book will be a key resource to students and readers interested in global warming, including academics and policymakers.

Author : Jeannine Davis-Kimball,V. A. Bashilov,Leonid Teodorovich I︠A︡blonskiĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018281340

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Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age by Jeannine Davis-Kimball,V. A. Bashilov,Leonid Teodorovich I︠A︡blonskiĭ Pdf

Author : Robert B. Marks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442212770

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China by Robert B. Marks Pdf

This deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China’s environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China’s traditional “heroic” storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet nuanced history for any reader interested in China, past or present. Indeed he argues successfully that all of humanity has a stake in China’s environmental future.

Author : Vadim N. Yagodin,A. V. G. Betts,Soren Blau
Publisher : Peeters
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aral Sea Region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan)
ISBN : UOM:39015075625114

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Ancient Nomads of the Aralo-Caspian Region by Vadim N. Yagodin,A. V. G. Betts,Soren Blau Pdf

The content of this volume centers around archaeological fieldwork carried out by Yagodin and others on the Ustiurt Plateau, a remote upland desert region lying between the Aral and the Caspian seas, in the southernmost part of the Asian steppes where ancient Nomadic groups used to winter to take advantage of the relatively mild climate. The Duana region is peculiar, however, in that there are also structures, which Yagodin and his team have interpreted as sanctuaries, shedding some light for the first time on how ancient nomadic cult practices might have influenced on the cults and religions of the settled lands in the South.

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190673482

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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History by Andrew C. Isenberg Pdf

This book explores the methodology of environmental history, with an emphasis on the field's interaction with other historiographies such as consumerism, borderlands, and gender. It examines the problem of environmental context, specifically the problem and perception of environmental determinism, by focusing on climate, disease, fauna, and regional environments. It also considers the changing understanding of scientific knowledge.

Author : Emma C. Bunker,James C. Y. Watt,Zhixin Sun
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300096880

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Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes by Emma C. Bunker,James C. Y. Watt,Zhixin Sun Pdf

This fascinating book examines the artistic exchange between the nomadic peoples of what is now Inner Mongolia and their settled Chinese neighbors during the first millennium B.C.

Author : Joan Aruz,Ann Farkas,Elisabetta Valtz Fino,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ha
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300124031

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The Golden Deer of Eurasia by Joan Aruz,Ann Farkas,Elisabetta Valtz Fino,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

The twenty essays in this book originated from a Metropolitan Museum symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition "The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes" (2000-2001). Texts by prominent scholars include: "The Prehistory of Scythian Cavalry: The Evolution of Fighting on Horseback" by David W. Anthony; "Steppe Nomadic Culture and Political Organization" by Thomas J. Barfield; "Mobility, Art, and Identity in Early Iron Age Europe and Asia" by Peter S. Wells; "The Gold of the Griffins: Recent Excavation of a Frozen Tomb in Kazakhstan" by Henri-Paul Francfort, Giancarlo Ligabue, and Zainullah Samashev; and "Discovery of a Royal Burial of the Scythian Period in Tuva" by Konstantin V. Chugunov, Anatolii Nagler, and Hermann Parzinger. Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author : Marsha Levine
Publisher : McDonald Institute Monographs
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042552458

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Late Prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppe by Marsha Levine Pdf

The nomadic peoples of the great grasslands of the former USSR have left little in the way of settlement evidence, and archaeologists studying their history have had to rely on environmental remains to reconstruct their pasts. This book contains three major studies: The origins of horse husbandry on the Eurasian Steppe (M Levine); The eneolithic of the Black Sea Steppe: The dynamics of cultural and economic development 4500-2300 BC (Y Rassamakin), and The Eastern Ural steppe at the end of the Stone Age (A Kislenko and N Tatarintseva) . Each presents evidence that has not previously been available to European prehistorians. The whole provides an important contribution to European prehistory, and provides background to the ongoing discussions on the prehistory of language.

Author : Emma C. Bunker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 0300194005

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Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes by Emma C. Bunker Pdf

Four thousand years ago, a remarkable culture emerged in the Eastern Eurasian steppes north of the Great Wall of China, in what is now Inner Mongolia. Herding, hunting on horseback, and agriculture characterized the way of life for the pastoral nomads of this region, and the art they produced reflects the equestrian culture that evolved over the centuries. Lightweight and portable, the weapons, bronze and gold belt plaques and chariot fittings, and objects of personal adornment display skilled craftsmanship and highly abstract designs, featuring animals, both wild and domesticated--tigers, bears, ibex, horses, camels--as well as raptors, dragons, and other mythical creatures. Trade, intermarriage, and warfare between the nomadic peoples and their settled Chinese neighbors during the first millennium B.C. led to a complex interrelationship that contributed to the cultural development of both groups. This book examines the artistic exchange between them and chronicles the culture of the pastoral peoples by focusing on nearly two hundred artifacts from the distinguished collection of Eugene V. Thaw, with additional works selected from other private collections and from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (This title was originally published in 2002/03.)

Author : Association of American Geographers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : IND:32000013425451

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Annals of the Association of American Geographers by Association of American Geographers Pdf

Vols. 54-55 include abstracts of papers presented at its 60th-61st Annual meeting, 1964-65.