Journal
JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 72, Issue 2, Pages 133-157Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/686297
Keywords
campsites; corrals; ethnoarchaeology; Khitan; mobility; Mongolia; nomads; pastoralists; small-scale social networks
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- Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
- National Geographic Society
- Institute of Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences
- National Science Foundation, Gettysburg College, Yale University
- Smithsonian Museum's National Museum of Natural History
- Department of Anthropology at Harvard University
- American School for Prehistoric Research
- Gerda Henkel Stiftung
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Mobility is often cited as the essence of life in the Eurasian steppe, and with it mobile dwellings and households. Steppe nomads offer ethnographically potent visions of inhabited space into which archaeological landscapes fit comfortably. Challenges include the discovery of early household sites, the characterization of households that lack structures, and how to examine the dynamics of mobile pastoralist households without being drawn into an agglomerative model that builds toward optimal practices. This paper will marshal the archaeological evidence for domestic spaces in mobile steppe households. A flexible and extensible model of household spaces will be offered that links activities and resources into a network of contextual relationships at the household scale. This provides a model for analogical use of ethnographic data, frameworks into which the archaeological fragments of mobile households can be fitted, and above all a means of comparative characterization between periods of inhabitation in the world's steppes.
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