Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. Most archaeological studies of mobile pastoralist social organization have focused on the latter two scales via the extant monumental and herding landscapes. Household levels of analysis figure much less in these studies. This volume brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.
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Mobile Pastoralist Households
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction — Mobile Pastoralist Households: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
- Part I — Place, Path, and the Material Manifestation of Mobile Pastoralist Households
- Chapter 1 — House Hunting: A Systematic Approach to Identifying Ephemeral Households of Mobile Pastoralists
- Chapter 2 — Where on the Mountain? Patterns of Bronze Age–Transhumant Pastoralism in the Western Tianshn Region of Xingjiang, China
- Chapter 3 — Gone with the Wind? The Materiality of the Kel Tadrart Tuareg Settlements in Central Sahara
- Chapter 4 — Homes on the Range: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Pastoralists’ Household Material Culture in Eastern Africa
- Chapter 5 — Household and Settlement Organization of Mobile Hunter-Fisher-Reindeer Herders in Western Siberia: n Ethnoarchaeological Study
- Part II — Household Space and Placemaking
- Chapter 6 — Mobile or Settled? Vectors of Economic and Social Amplification among Pastoral Communities of the Late Bronze Age in the North Caucasus
- Chapter 7 — House Form: Round or Square? Agropastoral Households of the Iron Age in the Talgar Region of Southeastern Kazakhstan
- Chapter 8 — Around the Hearth: Patterns of Spatiality at Sámi Reindeer Herder Sites in Northwest Sápmi (Finnish Lapland)
- Chapter 9 — Homemaking among the Living and the Dead in the Khorezm Oasis (Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan)
- Part III — Local Household Dynamics and External Relations
- Chapter 10 — Camelid Caravans of Middle Horizon Peru: Household Contexts, Local Transformations, and Interregional Interaction in Cusco
- Chapter 11 — Empire and Everyday Life: Continuity and Change in Mongolia’s Bronze and Iron Age Domestic Practices
- Concluding Commentaries — Reflections on Pastoralist Households as Economic, Social, and Political Agents
- Index
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