Paleoenvironment and the Hunter-Herder Transition in Northwestern Mongolia
Author(s): Christopher Morgan; Loukas Barton; Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav
Year: 2016
Summary
New paleoenvironmental proxy data indicate a series of changes in hydrology and environment from the terminal Pleistocene through middle Holocene in Uvs Province, Mongolia. Recent archaeological surveys, excavations and GIS-based analyses suggest these changes may correlate with alterations in technology and land use that are arguably consistent with the temporal span thought to represent the adoption and/or in situ development of pastoralist economies across the region. These correlations are explored with a set of hypothetical models designed to explain the fundamental behavioral changes taking place within this span of time that take into account the interplay between environment, technology, settlement, and social structure.
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Paleoenvironment and the Hunter-Herder Transition in Northwestern Mongolia. Christopher Morgan, Loukas Barton, Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405119)
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Keywords
General
Asia
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Paleoenvironment
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Pastoralism
Geographic Keywords
East/Southeast Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 66.885; min lat: -8.928 ; max long: 147.568; max lat: 54.059 ;