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Nomads in Archaeology

Tony Wilkinson, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
- Vol. 97, Iss: 1, pp 167
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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.

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Modeling scale and variability in human–environmental interactions in Inner Asia

TL;DR: This paper used agent-based modeling to identify the social and demographic interactions between landscape and weather variability for pastoralists in Inner Asia at a variety of social scales and from temporal scales of societal change ranging from a few days to 1000 years.
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Mobility in the Mountains: Late Third and Second Millennia Alpine Societies' Engagements with the High-Altitude Zones in the Southern French Alps

TL;DR: In an attempt to present a more socially embedded perspective, the authors considers the changes that occurred in the uses of the high-altitude, sub-alpine, and alpine zones in the southern French Alps during the third and second millennia BC.
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Early multi-resource nomadism: Excavations at the Camel Site in the central Negev

TL;DR: For example, the authors found evidence of desert cottage industries making beads and millstones in the Early Bronze Age, and these were people for whom nomadism was the "default lifestyle".
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Interpreting Intra-site Spatial Patterns in Seasonal Contexts: an Ethnoarchaeological Case Study from the Western Alps

TL;DR: This research is another example that highlights the importance of integrating quantitative methods (especially spatial analysis and geostatistical methods) and ethnoarchaeological data in order to improve the interpretation of archaeological sites and assemblages.
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Pastoral Pasts in the Amboseli Landscape: An Archaeological Exploration of the Amboseli Ecosystem From the Later Holocene to the Colonial Period

TL;DR: The Amboseli ecosystem is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, and has long drawn the attention of conservationists and ecologists hoping to safeguard the biodiversity of the region as mentioned in this paper, and has attracted the interest of many researchers.