This study investigates consumers' relationship to possessions in the condition of
contemporary global nomadism. Prior research argues that consumers form enduring and …

In this article I present a new archaeological synthesis concerning the earliest formation of
mobile pastoralist economies across central Eurasia. I argue that Eurasian steppe …

There are many unanswered questions about the evolution of the ancient 'Silk Roads'
across Asia. This is especially the case in their mountainous stretches, where harsh terrain …

By the late third/early second millennium BC, increased interconnectivity in the mountains of
Central Asia linked populations across Eurasia. This increasing interaction would later …

Iron Age societies of the eastern Eurasian steppe are traditionally viewed as nomadic
pastoralists. However, recent archaeological and anthropological research in Kazakhstan …

By 200 BC a series of expansive polities emerged in Inner Asia that would dominate the
history of this region and, at times, a very large portion of Eurasia for the next 2,000 years …

Pastoral societies have revived strong and renewed interest among the anthropologist.
Pastoralism is a subsistence pattern in which people make their living by domesticating …

Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) was first domesticated in China and dispersed
westward via Central Asia in the 3rd millennium BC, reaching Europe in the 2nd millennium …

Abstract In central Eurasian archaeology, Soviet-and post-Soviet investigations and more
recent biologically-focused analyses are often subtly presented as two extremes of …

This review of literature on South Asian nomads is part of a series of monographs on
educational access published by the Consortium for Research on Educational Access …