From Campsite to Capital – Mobility Patterns and Urbanism in Inner Asia
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "From Campsite to Capital – Mobility Patterns and Urbanism in Inner Asia," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
With the proposed symposium we would like to explore the relations between pastoralist groups and their various approaches to habitation and mobility through time. Especially complex, large agglomerations of people were long thought to be outside the realm of pastoralism, although urban sites such as the Uighur capital Kharbalgasun prove this assumption to be wrong. The past twenty years saw a rise in research in Inner Asia, especially surveys helped to revise overcome ideas about pastoralist lifestyles. The papers of this symposium present pastoralist societies beyond hackneyed clichés.
Other Keywords
Urbanism •
Historic •
Survey •
Mobility •
Settlement patterns •
Bronze Age •
Mongolia •
Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis •
Remote Sensing/Geophysics
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Azerbaijan (Country) •
Republic of Uzbekistan (Country) •
State of Kuwait (Country) •
Turkmenistan (Country) •
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Country) •
Republic of Tajikistan (Country) •
Kyrgyz Republic (Country) •
Republic of Kazakhstan (Country) •
Asia (Continent) •
Asia: Central Asia
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Cities in the Heartland of the Mongol Empire (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "From Campsite to Capital – Mobility Patterns and Urbanism in Inner Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 2016 to 2018 the two largest cities of the Mongol Empire, 13/14th century, in nowadays Mongolia were mapped using a SQUID-(Superconducting Quantum Interference Device)-magnetometer coupled with a DGPS. Thanks to this pioneering technique it was possible to create a high precision topographic and magnetic map in...
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Mobility and Highland Medieval Urbanism of the Nomadic Qarakhanids (9th-11th c. CE, Uzbekistan) (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "From Campsite to Capital – Mobility Patterns and Urbanism in Inner Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent discoveries of a series of highland urban sites (located over 2000m elevation) in the Pamir foothills of Uzbekistan inspire a full reconsideration of the political and economic organization of the Qarakhanid Khaganate and their relationship to both lowland and highland cities. The Qarakhanids controlled...
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Mongol Period Urban Sites and Their Hinterland in Comparison: Karakorum and Khar Khul Khaany Balgas (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "From Campsite to Capital – Mobility Patterns and Urbanism in Inner Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With its sparse population and few forest coverage, Mongolia is ideally suited for a wide array of surveying methods and as a consequence for landscape archaeological approaches. The proposed paper particularly looks into power and authority as expressed within the landscape. Two valleys in Mongolia will be...
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The World of the Living and the World of the Dead - A Bronze Age Monumental Landscape in Central Mongolia (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "From Campsite to Capital – Mobility Patterns and Urbanism in Inner Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bronze Age landscape in Mongolia is characterized by valleys with regularly arranged groups of monuments which are believed to represent the focus of a community. Depending on the ecology of the area the distance between such site clusters varies. This even distribution is punctuated by large concentrations of...