The Archaeology of Pastoralism, Mobility, and Society : Beyond the Grass Paradigm.
| 1. Verfasser: |
Hammer, Emily
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Umfang/Format: |
424 pages |
| ISBN: | 1009561685 1009561707 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Imprints page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Grass and Orientalist Perspectives on the Bakhtiari
- Chapter One From Orientalist Tropes to aDNA and Isotopes: Persistent Problems in the Archaeology of Pastoralism
- The Tenacity of Orientalist Lenses on Ancient and Historical Pastoralism
- The Archaeology of Pastoralism: A Short Disciplinary History
- Four Major Barriers to the Writing of Histories of Pastoralism
- Aims, Objectives, and Scope
- Chapter Two Resolving Conceptual Conflation: Pastoralism, Mobility, Complexity, Production, and Landscapes
- The (Continuing) Need for Definitions
- Basic Definitions: Pastoralism, Agropastoralism, Herding
- Old Frameworks 1: Nomadism
- Mobility: Shedding the Disciplinary Baggage of ''Nomadism''
- Old Frameworks 2: Tribal Organization, ''Egalitarianism,'' and External Dependency
- Complexity Associated with Pastoralism: Attempts to Move beyond Ecologically Deterministic (or ''Economics First'') Approaches
- Old Frameworks 3: Specialized Pastoralism
- Intensification: Variability and Change in Pastoral Production
- Old Frameworks 4: Marginal Land
- Pastoral Landscapes and their Affordances
- Conclusion
- Chapter Three Escaping the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record on Pastoralism
- Background: Ethnographic Analogy in Archaeology and Studies of Pastoralism
- Use and Misuse of Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Analogy in the Archaeology of Pastoralism
- Source-Side Solutions for More Reliable Analogies
- An Example of Source-Side Improvements: Spatial Ethnoarchaeology of Twentieth-Century Pastoralists in Southeastern Turkey
- Conclusion.
- Chapter Four Bones, Teeth, Seeds, Dung, Corrals, and Beyond: Foundational Methodologies Applied to Landscapes, Sites, and Assemblages Related to the History of Pastoralism
- Foundational Field Data on Pastoralism from Sites and Landscapes
- Survey and Landscape Approaches
- Excavation
- Innovations in Survey and Excavation: Aerial Remote Sensing, Geophysics, Dating, Research Orientations
- Foundational Laboratory Methodologies for Reconstructing Herds, Seasonality, and Pastoral Practices
- Zooarchaeology
- Archaeobotany
- Geoarchaeology and Microbotanical Studies: Dung and Phytoliths
- Geoarchaeology, Archaeobotany, and Landscape Reconstruction: Grazing Suitability and the Environmental Impacts of Pastoralism
- Conclusion
- Chapter Five Biomolecular Approaches to Pastoralism, Diet, and Mobility in the Past
- Isotopic Analysis
- DNA and Archaeogenetics
- Organic Residue Analysis: Animal Carcass Fat and Milk Fat
- Proteomics: Milk Proteins in Human Dental Calculus
- Conclusion
- Chapter Six Multidisciplinary Means of Addressing Pastoral Ecologies and Economies in the Past
- Question 1: Were People Engaged in Pastoralism and, if so, What Animals Were Herded?
- Question 2: Were Herders and Herd Animals Mobile and, if so, What Were the Characteristics of This Mobility?
- Question 3: Beyond Mobility, Herd Composition, and Penning, How Were Animals Managed?
- Question 4: How Were Animal Products Consumed and How Broad Were Human Diets?
- Question 5: How Intensified, Diversified, or Specialized Was Pastoral Production in a Community?
- Question 6: What Did the Landscape Afford Herders and Herds? How Did Herding Impact the Environment?
- Question 7: What Markers of Social Complexity Are Present or Absent within the Community? How Did Herding and Mobility Affect the Social Cohesion of the Community?
- Conclusion.
- Chapter Seven Social and Political Perspectives on Ancient and Historical Pastoralism
- ''Beyond Protein and Calories'': Social Zooarchaeology
- Beyond Pasture, Water, and Herds: The Social Archaeology of Pastoral Landscapes, Monuments, Gathering Places, and Infrastructure
- The Future: Household Archaeology Applied to Settlements and Campsites
- Conclusion
- Chapter Eight Uniting Separate Regional Traditions for a Comparative Archaeology of Pastoralism
- Regional Scholarly Traditions: Pastoralism in East Africa, the Middle East, and Central Eurasia
- Bridging Regional Divides
- Conclusion
- Chapter Nine Conclusion: Histories of Pastoralism
- Revisiting ''Grand Narratives''
- Five ''Grand Narratives'' of Pastoralism and Pastoral Mobility
- What the Archaeology of Pastoralism Offers Comparative Anthropology and History
- Bibliography
- Index.
