nomadic

Examples of nomadic in the following topics:

• Ceramics in the Jomon Period

  • Nomadic hunter-gatherers who later practiced organized farming and built cities, the Jōmon people are named for the "cord-markings"—impressions made by pressing rope into the clay before it was heated to approximately 600-900 degrees Celsius—that were found as decorations on pottery of this time.

• Architecture of the Qin Dynasty

  • Qin Shihuang, the first self-proclaimed emperor of the Qin Dynasty, developed plans to fortify his northern border in order to protect against the nomadic Mongols.

• Babylon

  • Archaeological evidence suggests that around the nineteenth century BCE, much of Mesopotamia was occupied by Amorites, nomadic tribes from the northern Levant.
  • The Amorites, unlike the Sumerians and Akkadian Semites, were not native to Mesopotamia, but were semi-nomadic Semitic invaders from the lands to the west.

• Inuit Art

  • Around 4000 BCE, nomads known as the Pre-Dorset or the Arctic Small Tool tradition (ASTt) crossed over the Bering Strait from Siberia into Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, and Newfoundland.
  • Nomadic people carried tools necessary for their daily living and could take very little else with them.

• Safavid Dynasty

  • In the sixteenth century, carpet weaving evolved from a nomadic and peasant craft to a well-executed industry with specialization of design and manufacturing using quality fibers such as silk.

• Samburu

  • The Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels.

• Neolithic Monuments

  • The development of agriculture allowed groups of people to form larger permanent settlements in single locations, as opposed to living as nomadic hunter gatherers.
  • Permanent settlements resulted in the construction of megalithic monuments requiring considerable time and effort that was unavailable to nomads.

• Islamic Textiles

  • In the sixteenth century, carpet weaving evolved from a nomadic and peasant craft to a well-executed industry with specialization of design and manufacturing using quality fibers such as silk.

• Site-Specific Art

  • Site-specific art emerged as a reaction to the proliferation of Modernist art objects as transportable, nomadic, museum oriented, objects of the market and commodification, with the desire to draw attention to the site and the context that surrounded it.

• Islamic Art

  • Central Asian styles were brought in with various nomadic incursions; and Chinese influences had a formative effect on Islamic painting, pottery, and textiles.