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Dear colleagues, this email is to bring to your attention the session "Mobile pastoralism through the interdisciplinary lens" for the ICAZ 2018 conference. If you are interested in submitting a paper/poster please submit your abstract through the conference website http://www.icaz2018ankara.com/index.html The deadline for submissions is the 30th of March. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact at [log in to unmask] Here is the abstract of the session: Mobile pastoralism, including nomadic, semi-nomadic and transhumance practises, is as much an ancient application as a modern practise which may contain the answer to many problems created by industrialised animal raising. The movement of large number of animals and people through the landscape is shaped by environmental, economic and social factors. In turn, it inputs to all these three in numerous ways. It was thought that markets with high demand in specialised pastoral products was a precondition for the operation of such systems, nevertheless contemporary research indicates that this may not be so and the mobile pastoralism in some form might have been much more ancient. This session invites papers that will contribute to understanding the beginnings, the history, the structure and adaptation of the system at various natural/social environments and finally its relationship with the organised state and the opportunities/constrains/consequences involved. With animal husbandry sharply at focus, studies through traditional and new zooarchaeological techniques as well as any other disciplines that can contribute to the question ,such as archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, biology, (archaeo)botany, history and the study of ancient documents, economy or any other, are welcomed. Most interesting will be the combination of different disciplines’ data to the same question. Best regards, Evangelia Pişkin