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Author : Roger Cribb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052154579X
This book addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques. It deals not only with the prehistory of nomads but also with current issues in theory and methodology.
Author : Hans Barnard,Willeke Wendrich
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770388
There 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.
Author : Rebecca J. Bradley
Publisher : Wiley-VCH
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025163505
Details the archaeological findings of nomadic peoples in northern Sudan during the Meroitica period, 3rd century B.C. to about the 4th century A.D. Reconstructs the circumstances of life for nomads who settled in the Butan and Kordofan regions, based on archaeological studies carried out in 1979-80, and comparing the lives of present day nomads in the same areas to eke out the sparse artifacts. Includes a glossary, without pronunciation, of Arabic terms. No index. Distributed by VCH. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ayelet Gilboa,Assaf Yasur-Landau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004430112
Three millennia of cross-Mediterranean bonds are revealed by 18 expert summaries in this book, shedding light on environmental factors; the formation of harbors; gateways; commodities; cultural impact; and the way to interpret the agents such as Canaanites, "Sea Peoples," Phoenicians and pirates.
Author : Heiko Riemer
Publisher : Heinrich-Barth-Institut
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute
Publisher : Oriental Inst Publications Sales
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1885923619
For decades, scholars have struggled to understand the complex relationship between pastoral nomadic tribes and sedentary peoples of the Near East. The Oriental Institute's fourth annual post-doc seminar (March 7-8, 2008), Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East, brought together archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to discuss new approaches to enduring questions in the study of nomadic peoples, tribes, and states of the past: What social or political bonds link tribes and states? Could nomadic tribes exhibit elements of urbanism or social hierarchies? How can the tools of historical, archaeological, and ethnographic research be integrated to build a dynamic picture of the social landscape of the Near East? This volume presents a range of data and theoretical perspectives from a variety of regions and periods, including prehistoric Iran, ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, seventh-century Arabia, and nineteenth-century Jordan.
Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192551870
Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe. Relations with the Greeks around the shores of the Black Sea were rather different - both communities benefiting from trading with each other. This led to the development of a brilliant art style, often depicting scenes from Scythian mythology and everyday life. It is from the writings of Greeks like the historian Herodotus that we learn of Scythian life: their beliefs, their burial practices, their love of fighting, and their ambivalent attitudes to gender. It is a world that is also brilliantly illuminated by the rich material culture recovered from Scythian burials, from the graves of kings on the Pontic steppe, with their elaborate gold work and vividly coloured fabrics, to the frozen tombs of the Altai mountains, where all the organic material - wooden carvings, carpets, saddles and even tattooed human bodies - is amazingly well preserved. Barry Cunliffe here marshals this vast array of evidence - both archaeological and textual - in a masterful reconstruction of the lost world of the Scythians, allowing them to emerge in all their considerable vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia.
Author : Nils Anfinset
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134944392
The fifth and fourth millennia BCE saw major cultural changes in the southern Levant and Northeast Africa: the spread of agriculture; developments in animal husbandry; increased contact between cultures; and the use of alloy bronze. 'Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact' integrates archaeological data from across the Chalcolithic period to contextualise these changes. The book examines the introduction of metal to the southern Levant, Egypt and Lower Nubia and the role of pastoral nomadism in cultural interaction and exchange. 'Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact' will be valuable to scholars of archaeology and anthropology.
Author : D. T. Potts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199330805
The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern archaeologists have envisaged it. Nomadism in Iran recasts our understanding of this "timeless" tradition. Far from constituting a natural adaptation on the Iranian Plateau, nomadism is a comparatively late introduction, which can only be understood within the context of certain political circumstances. Since the early Holocene, most, if not all, agricultural communities in Iran had kept herds of sheep and goat, but the communities themselves were sedentary: only a few of their members were required to move with the herds seasonally. Though the arrival of Iranian speaking groups, attested in written sources beginning in the time of Herodutus, began to change the demography of the plateau, it wasn't until later in the eleventh century that an influx of Turkic speaking Oghuz nomadic groups-"true" nomads of the steppe-began the modification of the demography of the Iranian Plateau that accelerated with the Mongol conquest. The massive, unprecedented violence of this invasion effected the widespread distribution of largely Turkic-speaking nomadic groups across Iran. Thus, what has been interpreted in the past as an enduring pattern of nomadic land use is, by archaeological standards, very recent. Iran's demographic profile since the eleventh century AD, and more particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth century, has been used by some scholars as a proxy for ancient social organization. Nomadism in Iran argues that this modernist perspective distorts the historical reality of the land. Assembling a wealth of material in several languages and disciplines, Nomadism in Iran will be invaluable to archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Author : Roman Ghirshman
Publisher : Istanbul : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Institut
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Human beings
ISBN : OCLC:164934592
Author : Claudia Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351701587
The peoples of Inner Asia in the second half of the first millennium BC have long been considered to be nomads, engaging in warfare and conflict. This book, which presents the findings of new archaeological research in southeastern Kazakhstan, analyzes these findings to present important conclusions about the nature of Inner Asian society in this period. Pots, animal bones, ancient plant remains, and mudbricks are details from the material record proving that the ancient folk cultivated wheat, barley, and the two millets, and also husbanded sheep, goats, cattle, and horses. The picture presented is of societies which were more complex than heretofore understood: with an economic foundation based on both herding and farming, producing surplus agricultural goods which were exported, and with a hierarchical social structure, including elites and commoners, made cohesive by gift-giving, feasting, and tribute, rather than conflict and warfare. The book includes material on the impact of the first opening of the Silk Route by the Han emperors of China.
Author : Sören Stark,Karen Sydney Rubinson,Zaĭnolla Samashevich Samashev,Jennifer Chi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : UCSD:31822039398763
Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, March 7-June 3, 2012.
Author : Roman Ghirshman,Machteld Johanna Mellink
Publisher : Istanbul : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Institut
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Anatolia (Turkey)
ISBN : LCCN:67107129
Author : Murray Lee Eiland,Mark W. Merrony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 1838031634
Of the three great Persian civilisations in antiquity ? Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian ? the Parthians, as they are known in western sources, are the most obscure, an issue that this book seeks to redress. It arguably does more to solve the paradox of a civilisation seemingly largely ? but not exclusively ? devoid of a solid urban tradition on the one hand, while on the other, holding sway as a great empire over much of Western and Central Asia for several centuries. This great archaeological and historical problem is accomplished with an extraordinary grasp of the material evidence to tease out the answer to one of ancient civilisation?s greatest unsolved mysteries.
Author : John Kinahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Namib Desert (Namibia)
ISBN : IND:30000109848360
