CAMP: A New Project for the Study of Pastoral Archaeological Sites

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Exploring Long-Term Pastoral Dynamics: Methods, Theories, Stories" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Pastoralism is now recognized as a smart economy for food production in drylands, especially in the current scenario of climate change, where natural resource variability is increasing globally. Outdated stereotypes about the inefficiency and irrationality of pastoralism are being reevaluated, and there is a shift in the old paradigms regarding the study of contemporary pastoralism. Simultaneously, the archaeology of pastoralism is gaining renewed attention due to the long-lasting and sustainable nature of documented pastoralist practices. However, the archaeological record of pastoral sites remains challenging to study using current archaeological methods. The recently ERC-funded project "(Re)Constructing the Archaeology of Mobile Pastoralism (CAMP): Bringing the site level into long-term pastoral narratives" aims at developing a widely applicable methodology for the study of pastoral archaeological sites that can augment our knowledge on past livelihood in drylands.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Exploring Long-Term Pastoral Dynamics: Methods, Theories, Stories

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Abstract Id(s): 38743.0