Cross-Cultural Analysis of Pastoral Adaptations and Organizational States
A Preliminary Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7738778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amber Johnson (0000-0002-0012-1473, Truman State University, corresponding author), Amber Lynn Johnson (Truman State University) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-180 |
| Publication date | 2002-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cross-Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-3971 • E-ISSN: 1552-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1069397102036002003 |
| OpenAlex | W2013724485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 17 |
Pastoral adaptations span a variety of organizational states ranging from self-sufficient, mixed-subsistence agropastoralists to economic specialists dependent on trade with agriculturalists for subsistence. A preliminary study of ethnographically documented pastoralist cases demonstrates robust relationships between environmental variables relevant to plant biomass, herd structure, mobility, labor organization, and subsistence dependence. Three organizational states of pastoral adaptations are distinguished by subsistence dependence on food acquired through trade, the geographic scale of mobility, and habitat variables. The archaeological sequence at Nabta Playa, a Neolithic site in the western desert of Egypt with early evidence for the presence of domesticated cattle, is used to illustrate the utility of this research for archaeologists concerned with the origins and evolution of pastoral adaptations
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Domestication · Economic geography · Geography · Livestock · Pastoralism · Phoenix · Subsistence agriculture · Subsistence economy · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Ecology
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Patterns of Change in a Nenets Landscape
Comparative Study of Pastoral Property Regimes in Africa Offers No Support for Economic Defensibility Model
Pastoralism and Pilgrimage
House Floor Area as a Correlate of Marital Residence Pattern
Social Risk-Management Strategies in Pastoral Systems
Dietary patterns in human populations from northwest Patagonia during Holocene
Cattle Cults of the Arabian Neolithic and Early Territorial Societies
The Nuer conquest
Nomads and the outside world
The Sanusi of Cyrenaica.
Kinship and marriage among the Nuer
Nuer Dilemmas
African Pastoralist Systems
Are the early holocene cattle in the eastern sahara domestic or wild
Geoarchaeology of the Holocene climatic optimum at Nabta Playa, Southwestern Desert, Egypt
Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara
Jahreszeiten im Sumerisch-Akkadischen-(Concluded)
Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory
The Kababish Arabs
The Kababish Arabs
Some Structural Aspects of the Feud among the Camel-Herding Bedouin of Cyrenaica
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |