pastoralist

Examples of pastoralist in the following topics:

• The Nomadic Tribes of Arabia

  • The nomadic pastoralist Bedouin tribes inhabited the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam around 700 CE.
  • The Bedouin tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia were nomadic-pastoralists.
  • Pastoralists depend on their small herds of goats, sheep, camels, horses, or other animals for meat, milk, cheese, blood, fur/wool, and other sustenance.

• Rock Art in the Sahara

  • It harbors one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric rock art in the entire Sahara, mainly of the Neolithic cattle pastoralist cultures, but also a number of older paintings from hunter-gatherer societies.
  • One petroglyph in Mauritania depicts pastoralists on horseback as they tend their livestock.
  • Neolithic cave painting of either hunters or pastoralists during the Neolithic Subpluvial period.

• The Four Social Revolutions

  • In a pastoralist society, the primary means of subsistence are domesticated animals (livestock).
  • Like hunter-gatherers, pastoralists are often nomadic, moving seasonally in search of fresh pastures and water for their animals.
  • In a pastoralist society, there is an increased likelihood of surplus food, which, in turn, often results in greater population densities and the development of both social hierarchies and divisions of labor.
  • Pastoralist societies still exist.

• Lenski's Synthesis

  • The origins of inequality can be found in the transition from hunter/gatherer societies to horticultural/pastoralist societies.
  • In horticultural/pastoralist societies (around 12,000 B.C.), groups grew very large, and humans began to settle in one place.

• Societal Development

  • Some pastoralist societies also engage in some measure of horticultural food production and most industrial and post-industrial societies still have agriculture, just in a reduced capacity.
  • A pastoralist society is a society in which the primary means of subsistence is domesticated livestock.
  • It is often the case that, like hunter-gatherers, pastoralists are nomadic, moving seasonally in search of fresh pastures and water for their animals.
  • Pastoralist societies still exist.
  • Other examples of pastoralists societies still in existence include:

• Samburu

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

• The Silk Road

  • Emperor Wu repelled the invading barbarians (the Xiongnu, or Huns, a nomadic-pastoralist warrior people from the Eurasian steppe) and roughly doubled the size of the empire, claiming lands that included Korea, Manchuria, and even part of Turkistan.

• The Bantu Migration

  • Before the expansion of farming and pastoralist African peoples, Southern Africa was populated by hunter-gatherers and earlier pastoralists.

• Social class in America

  • The origins of inequality can be found in the transition from hunter/gatherer societies to horticultural/pastoralist societies.
  • In horticultural/pastoralist societies (around 12,000 B.C.), groups grew to be very large and humans settled down in one place.
  • But in less developed economies - like hunter-gatherer or pastoralist - the transmission of wealth is far more difficult as it involves the physical transferring of goods.

• Buddhist Wall Paintings

  • In the year 480 CE, the Huns—nomadic-pastoralist warriors from the Eurasian steppe—launched an invasion of India, and by the year 500 CE, they had overrun the Gupta Empire.