2022
DOI: 10.1086/718184
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Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE

Abstract: This article presents new data from fieldwork in the de facto state of Somaliland, a region in the Horn of Africa historically inhabited by nomadic pastoralists who played a key role in commercial exchange from the first century BCE onward. Relations between ancient empires and nomadic populations have received comparatively little attention in relation to other groups living within or outside imperial boundaries. Our understanding of these interactions has been colored by stereotypes from classical authors an… Show more

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“…Strontium isotope analysis of human dental enamel from these burials reveals a high degree of residential mobility in the earliest phases of the Kerma period, followed by a subsequent decline in community- The role of pastoralism in the development of complex societies is receiving new attention (e.g., Brass, 2015;González-Ruibal et al, 2022;Honeychurch, 2014;Walsh, 2022), particularly as we begin to mitigate biases from prioritizing models of state formation based on western concepts of authority, in which control of land and agricultural surplus produces a hierarchical structure. The Sudanic (Edwards, 1998) and, especially, the pastoral state models (Emberling, 2014) suggest a heterarchical structure in which control is not consolidated in the hands of a few but held by many who maintain alliances and retain wealth on the hoof.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Strontium isotope analysis of human dental enamel from these burials reveals a high degree of residential mobility in the earliest phases of the Kerma period, followed by a subsequent decline in community- The role of pastoralism in the development of complex societies is receiving new attention (e.g., Brass, 2015;González-Ruibal et al, 2022;Honeychurch, 2014;Walsh, 2022), particularly as we begin to mitigate biases from prioritizing models of state formation based on western concepts of authority, in which control of land and agricultural surplus produces a hierarchical structure. The Sudanic (Edwards, 1998) and, especially, the pastoral state models (Emberling, 2014) suggest a heterarchical structure in which control is not consolidated in the hands of a few but held by many who maintain alliances and retain wealth on the hoof.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These materials date from the first to third centuries CE. Still, South Arabian Organic Storage Jars dating back from the first-century BCE to the first half of the first-century CE were found in Siyaara 35 km to the east of Berbera [62].…”
Section: Developments Of External Tradementioning
confidence: 99%