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Nomads in Archaeology
Tony Wilkinson,Roger Cribb +1 more
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This article is published in American Journal of Archaeology.The article was published on 1993-01-01. It has received 248 citations till now.read more
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Seasonal aggregation and ritual slaughter: Isotopic and dental microwear evidence for cattle herder mobility in the Arabian Neolithic
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used oxygen and carbon isotope data in tooth enamel and slaughter arrangements through dental microwear to test whether animals were reared by one or many social groups, and found that cattle were raised in multiple locations but died in the same season at one location, giving support to the social networking model.
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'Because life it selfe is but motion': Toward an anthropology of mobility
TL;DR: In the last two decades, mobility has gained new prominence within anthropology, particularly in theories of globalization, immigration, and subjectivity as mentioned in this paper, and it has been a hot topic in all of the recent ethnograph studies.
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Modeling the Neolithic on the Tibetan Plateau
TL;DR: This paper reviewed existing models as well as what is known of the paleoenvironments of the Tibetan Neolithic and argued that future models must include consideration of different modes of food production, other routes onto the plateau, the biological and physiological constraints on potential plant and animal domesticates, and the evolution of dietary preferences.
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The Economic Organization of Early Camelid Pastoralism in the Andean Highlands of Bolivia
Capriles Flores,Jose Mariano +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the development of early camelid pastoralism by testing a set of hypotheses related to Wankarani economic organization is discussed, showing the continuing importance of mobile pastoralism, coupled with other subsistence strategies such as hunting, fishing and cultivation.
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Livestock Husbandry, Pastoralisms, and Territoriality: The West African Record
TL;DR: In this article, evidence for livestock found in West African Holocene sites are considered in relation to patterns of settlement distribution in the context of changing climatic circumstances, and the development of livestock husbandry appears to coincide with the advent of a drier Middle Holocene climatic, followed by a relatively fast expansion all over West Africa.