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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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Ecosystem engineering among ancient pastoralists in northern Central Asia
Alicia R. Ventresca Miller,Robert N. Spengler,Ashleigh Haruda,Bryan Kristopher Miller,Shevan Wilkin,Sally Robinson,Patrick Roberts,Nicole Boivin +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the archeological and paleoenvironmental record across northern Central Asia in order to assess broader ecosystem impacts of pastoralism, from time periods when this economic pattern was a relatively novel component of local ecologies and involved limited population densities, through to periods in which it became intensive, coincident with agriculture, and linked to increased sedentism.
The Archaeology of the Commons
TL;DR: The literature is rich in descriptions of different forms of commons in the later pre-industrial agrarian society of northern Sweden as discussed by the authors, where the industrial era resulted in a noticeable shift in the use of commons.
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The fair and the sanctuary: gathering places in a nomadic landscape (Somaliland, 1000–1850 AD)
TL;DR: Gathering places play a paramount role among pastoralists as discussed by the authors, and markets, sanctuaries, graves and watering places are foci of ritual, economic, and social activity.
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Buying local or ancient outsourcing? Locating production of prismatic obsidian blades in Bronze-Age Northern Mesopotamia
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that at known workshop sites, the reduction sequence occurs only in small portions of large urban centres, and even there certain reduction products are underrepresented.