Isotopes and ideograms: Bio-archaeological and theoretical approaches to pastoralism in light of the Mari (and other) texts

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The fundamental issue obscuring our understanding of the place of animal husbandry in the societies and economies of the ancient Near East remains definitional. The continual conflation of the term "mobile pastoralism" with politically and socially independent pastoralism has reached a poi...

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Autor principal:	Porter, Anne
Formato:	article artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Sobre Diversidad Cultural 2021
Materias:	Pastoralismo independiente Archivos de Mari Sacrifi cios animales Ebla Mobile pastoralism Independent pastoralism Mari archive
Acceso en línea:	http://hdl.handle.net/2133/21565 http://hdl.handle.net/2133/21565
Aporte de:	Repositorio Hipermedial de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) de Universidad Nacional de Rosario

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topic	Pastoralismo independiente Archivos de Mari Sacrifi cios animales Ebla Mobile pastoralism Independent pastoralism Mari archive
spellingShingle	Pastoralismo independiente Archivos de Mari Sacrifi cios animales Ebla Mobile pastoralism Independent pastoralism Mari archive Porter, Anne Isotopes and ideograms: Bio-archaeological and theoretical approaches to pastoralism in light of the Mari (and other) texts
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description	The fundamental issue obscuring our understanding of the place of animal husbandry in the societies and economies of the ancient Near East remains definitional. The continual conflation of the term "mobile pastoralism" with politically and socially independent pastoralism has reached a point where mobile pastoralism is claimed never to have existed. Sheep and goat recovered from settlements that show evidence for foddering, or grazing on cultivated crops, is argued as proof of a lack of mobility, but this fails to take into account whether these animals are used for meat and milk, sacri ce, or their wool. It also does not distinguish between those animals kept for daily use by individual households and institutionally owned animals. The textual evidence from Mari, which describes mobile pastoralism, is argued to be anomalous. But, in fact, Mari pastoralism is not independent pastoralism either. It is, however, mobile and long-distance, as well as variable according to the particular pastoralist group under discussion. This paper argues that a wide range of textual material, of which the Mari archive is but one source, shows that multiple kinds of pastoralism coexisted in the ancient Near East, including multiple kinds of mobile, or distance, pastoralism, as distinct from independent pastoralism.
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title	Isotopes and ideograms: Bio-archaeological and theoretical approaches to pastoralism in light of the Mari (and other) texts
title_short	Isotopes and ideograms: Bio-archaeological and theoretical approaches to pastoralism in light of the Mari (and other) texts
title_full	Isotopes and ideograms: Bio-archaeological and theoretical approaches to pastoralism in light of the Mari (and other) texts
title_fullStr	Isotopes and ideograms: Bio-archaeological and theoretical approaches to pastoralism in light of the Mari (and other) texts
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publisher	Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Sobre Diversidad Cultural
publishDate	2021
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Isotopes and ideograms: Bio-archaeological and theoretical approaches to pastoralism in light of the Mari (and other) texts

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