Research on Human and Reindeer Relations in Southern Yakutia [Sakha Republic]

Davydov, Vladimir

doi:10.1080/10611959.2017.1352313

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“…146). Early mounted herders therefore probably had no more control over their still semi-wild horses than Mongolian and Siberian reindeer herders have when riding their reindeer (Stépanoff, 2012;Davydov, 2017). But, like these reindeer herders, they would still have found mounted herding easier than herding on foot.…”

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The prehistoric origins of the domestic horse and horseback riding

Niskanen¹

2023

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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d' Anthropologie de ParisCet article fait suite à une communication invitée présentée lors des 1847 es journées de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris dans le cadre de la session "Les relations entre les humains et les animaux"Abstract -The findings of Librado et al. (2021) show that modern domestic horses (DOM2) emerged in the lower Don-Volga region. They imply that horseback riding drove selection that resulted in these horses and fuelled their initial dispersal, and also that DOM2 horses replaced other horses because they were more suitable for riding due to their more docile temperaments and resilient backs. In this article, I argue that captive breeding of horses leading to their domestication began in about 4500-3000 BC in the Pontic-Caspian steppe and made horseback riding necessary because managing horses, and especially moving them over long distances, required mounted herding. Horseback riding had been experimented with since the second half of the 5 th millennium BC, became common around 3100 BC during the early stages of the Yamnaya culture, and necessary by the middle of the 3 rd millennium BC at the very latest. As horseback riding became more common, selection for malleable temperaments and resilient backs intensified, resulting in DOM2 horses by about 2300-2200 BC in the lower Don-Volga region. The body size and weight-carrying ability of ancestral and early DOM2 horses were not limiting factors for horseback riding. The initial dispersal of DOM2 horses was facilitated by horseback riding and began by about 2300 +150 BC. Chariotry began to spread together with DOM2 horses after 2000 BC, but its high archaeological visibility may have inflated its importance, since chariots are of limited practical use for herding and other daily tasks.

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The prehistoric origins of the domestic horse and horseback riding

Niskanen¹

2023

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“…When practicing water-and land-based activities, and in relation with their natural environment, Indigenous peoples express respect and reciprocity to Mother Earth. When moving with the reindeer, herders know the environmental conditions and timing of the migration start [121]. Hunters and fishers are familiar with the harvesting season, animal behavior, and other important features without which harvesting may become impossible.…”

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Global Change Impacts on Indigenous Sustainability in Sakha Republic: A Synthesis of Knowledge

Ksenofontov,

Petrov

2024

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Indigenous understanding of sustainability is embedded in close relations to land and environment, Indigenous Knowledge systems, Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, and Indigenous languages. However, the sustainability of Indigenous peoples’ livelihoods is significantly affected by various global change drivers. In the Arctic, Indigenous peoples’ livelihoods are impacted by environmental, social, and cultural changes, including climate change, environmental pollution, economic processes, and resource extraction. This paper aims to review and synthesize recent academic and gray literature on the sustainability of Indigenous communities in Sakha Republic, Northeast Siberia, Russia in the face of global change with a particular focus on land- and water-based traditional activities, native language, and the Indigenous Knowledge system.

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“…Furthermore, there are numerous examples of aboriginal societies-mainly in the southern and central Siberia (e.g. Tofu (Melnikova 1994;Donahoe 2012;Stépanoff 2012), Todzhu-Tyva (Donahoe 2006;Donahoe 2012), many groups of Evenki (Mertens 2016;Davydov 2017;Stépanoff et al 2017)), but also in the Arctic (e.g. Yukaghir (Tugolukov 1979), Nganasan (Popov 1948), most groups of Khanty and Mansi (Stépanoff et al 2017))-where the second turn never happened and the transport reindeer herding rather than the reindeer pastoralism proper persisted until very recently (Bogoraz-Tan 1933).…”

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