Nomads in Archaeology

Cribb, Roger

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511552205

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“…Cribb's (1991) study comparing pastoral tent dwellings and village houses in Turkey found that, despite the obvious differences in the building materials used, the tent and the house were virtually identical in their underlying organizational templates. There is nothing necessarily 'unstructured' about the kinds of non-permanent constructions used by mobile peoples: even just the placing of sticks in the ground to represent a 'doorway' acts to structure movement and activity along gender and age lines in temporary !Kung encampments (Whitelaw 1994, p. 217).…”

Section: Agriculture Sedentism and Small Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of the mind

Coward¹,

Gamble²

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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New developments in neuroimaging have demonstrated that the basic capacities underpinning human social skills are shared by our closest extant primate relatives. The challenge for archaeologists is to explain how complex human societies evolved from this shared pattern of face-to-face social interaction. We argue that a key process was the gradual incorporation of material culture into social networks over the course of hominin evolution. Here we use three long-term processes in hominin evolution-encephalization, the global human diaspora and sedentism/agriculture-to illustrate how the cultural transmission of material culture allowed the 'scaling up' of face-to-face social interactions to the global societies known today. We conclude that future research by neuroimagers and archaeologists will need to investigate the cognitive mechanisms behind human engagement with material culture as well as other persons.

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Section: Agriculture Sedentism and Small Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of the mind

Coward¹,

Gamble²

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Scholars have explored the settlement behavior of pastoral nomads in different contexts, showing that material evidence can be indeed detected in the archaeological record. Architectural remains, activity areas, artifacts, and recognizable alterations of the natural environment have been reported in a variety of case studies (e.g., David 1971, Robbins 1973, Gifford 1978, Robertshaw 1978, Hole 1979, Cribb 1991, Avni 1992, Banning and Köhler-Rollefson 1992, Bradley 1992, Palmer et al 2007, Saidel 2009). Although most of this research was problem oriented, context specific, and archaeologically raised, a variety of middle-range theories have been extrapolated from these particular case studies to approach the study of the vestigial remains of past societies.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

A matter of ephemerality: the study of Kel Tadrart Tuareg (southwest Libya) campsites via quantitative spatial analysis

Biagetti¹,

Alcaina-Mateos²,

Crema³

2016

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ABSTRACT. We examined the settlement structure from the Kel Tadrart Tuareg, a small pastoral society from southwest Libya. Our objective was to apply spatial analysis to establish the statistical significance of specific patterns in the settlement layout. In particular, we examined whether there is a separation between domestic and livestock spaces, and whether particular residential features dedicated to guests are spatially isolated. We used both established statistical techniques and newly developed bespoke analyses to test our hypotheses, and then discuss the results in the light of possible applications to other case studies.Key Words: campsites; Kel Tadrart Tuareg; settlement layout; spatial analysis INTRODUCTIONThe study of pastoral settlements has traditionally held a problematic position in the archaeological literature. Allegedly invisible and likely impermanent, nomadic campsites have challenged generations of archaeologists and a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches. The ephemeral nature of their structural remains in fact limits our capacity to identify settlement layouts and ultimately the reconstruction of the past use of space, whether this is the overall extent of the area where daily activities where performed or the identification of specific spatial patterning of the build environment.

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“…Agro-pastoralism is in its simplest form a type of multi-resource pastoralism in which some communities live within sedentary agricultural villages or are fully nomadic but heavily rely upon domesticated herd animals as a fundamental part of their subsistence strategies and way of life (Cribb, 1991;Lane, 2006). In agro-pastoralist communities there are often constant interconnected shifts between the dynamics of herding and farming through time (Miller et al, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%