Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Foreword XVII
5. Introduction Mobile Pastoralist Households: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives 1
6. Part I. Place, Path, and the Material Manifestation of Mobile Pastoralist Households
7. Chapter 2. Where on the Mountain? Patterns of Bronze Age– Transhumant Pastoralism in the Western Tianshan Region of Xinjiang, China 45
8. Chapter 3. Gone with the Wind? The Materiality of the Kel Tadrart Tuareg Settlements in Central Sahara 72
9. Chapter 4. Homes on the Range: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Pastoralists’ Household Material Culture in Eastern Africa 91
10. Chapter 5. Household and Settlement Organization of Mobile Hunter-Fisher-Reindeer Herders in Western Siberia: An Ethnoarchaeological Study 120
11. Part II. Household Space and Placemaking
12. Chapter 6. Mobile or Settled? Vectors of Economic and Social Amplification among Pastoral Communities of the Late Bronze Age in the North Caucasus 159
13. Chapter 7. House Form: Round or Square? Agropastoral Households of the Iron Age in the Talgar Region of Southeastern Kazakhstan 191
14. Chapter 8. Around the Hearth: Patterns of Spatiality at Sámi Reindeer Herder Sites in Northwest Sápmi (Finnish Lapland) 204
15. Chapter 9. Homemaking among the Living and the Dead in the Khorezm Oasis (Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan) 230
16. Part III. Local Household Dynamics and External Relations
17. Chapter 10. Camelid Caravans of Middle Horizon Peru: Household Contexts, Local Transformations, and Interregional Interaction in Cusco 253
18. Chapter 11. Empire and Everyday Life: Continuity and Change in Mongolia’s Bronze and Iron Age Domestic Practices 275
19. Concluding Commentaries: Reflections on Pastoralist Households as Economic, Social, and Political Agents 311
20. Index 320