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
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