Pastoralism is one of the enduring themes in the prehistory and history of the ancient Near East, and pastoralists play central roles in narratives that describe the economic, cultural, and political evolution of the region from the Neolithic Revolu-tion to the rise of complex civilizations (Childe 1934; Porter 2012; Rosen 2016).

Research on ancient pastoral nomadic and tribal interactions in the Middle East have been both helped and hindered by reliance on ethnohistorical and anthropological data. The rich ethnographies of the 19th and early 20th centuries concerning the nomads of the southern Levant have colored our perceptions of the structure and nature of pastoral ...

2018年9月3日 · The historical trajectory of Middle Eastern ethnography has resulted in a body of readily accessible literature on pastoral societies that were particularly mobile and specialized during a narrow moment in time from the 1940s–1970s. Archaeologists have drawn heavily on this literature for developing models of pastoralism in earlier periods.

Pastoralism is one of the enduring themes in the prehistory and history of the ancient Near East, and pastoralists play central roles in narratives that describe the economic, cultural, and political evolution of the region from the Neolithic Revolu‐ tion to the rise of complex civilizations (Childe 1934; Porter 2012; Rosen 2016).

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Traditional approaches to the topic in the ancient Near East focus on mobile pastoralism, generally understanding it as something separate from, and secondary to, the agricultural practices of the sedentary world.

In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE.

2019年9月1日 · We describe the accretional development of pastoral technologies over eight millennia, including the productive breeding of domestic sheep, goats, and cattle in the early Neolithic and the...

2012年3月26日 · In this paper, we present a history of pastoralism in the ancient Near East from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. We describe the accretional development of pastoral technologies over eight…

Some pastoral peoples of the Middle East. In the Middle East, the pastoralists mostly belonged to the Semitic races (though not all Semites were pastoralists – witness the Canaanites). The first to make a major impact on history were the Akkadians, then the Amorites, the Hebrews, the Aramaeans, the Chaldeans, and later the Arabs.