Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia 2009
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511605376.020
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Socially Integrative Facilities and the Emergence of Societal Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe

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“…successors, without the same level of practical networks and connections that make contemporary nomadic pastoralism so robust. Material culture from this earlier period shows that though there are syncretic elements and contacts across the cultural landscapes of these early nomadic pastoralists (Anthony 2007;Erdenebaatar 2002;Frachetti 2008;Gorynova 1983;Houle 2009), these may not represent the range or depth of assistive networks that are so important to the economic survival and long-range political organization of pastoral nomads. Living as part of less robust networks, the people of the Bronze and Early Iron Age may not have been as able to adapt and recover from crises and reverses as well as their successors, and thus would have great incentive to create new and stable systems of economic security and political organization to increase their chance of survival as mobile pastoralists.…”
Section: The Organizational Challenges Of Early Pastoral Nomadismmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…successors, without the same level of practical networks and connections that make contemporary nomadic pastoralism so robust. Material culture from this earlier period shows that though there are syncretic elements and contacts across the cultural landscapes of these early nomadic pastoralists (Anthony 2007;Erdenebaatar 2002;Frachetti 2008;Gorynova 1983;Houle 2009), these may not represent the range or depth of assistive networks that are so important to the economic survival and long-range political organization of pastoral nomads. Living as part of less robust networks, the people of the Bronze and Early Iron Age may not have been as able to adapt and recover from crises and reverses as well as their successors, and thus would have great incentive to create new and stable systems of economic security and political organization to increase their chance of survival as mobile pastoralists.…”
Section: The Organizational Challenges Of Early Pastoral Nomadismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The loss of members diminishes the original community's chances of success as pastoralists. Thus, the maintenance of networks of mutual support, local social cohesion, and statements of access control in nodal regions of the pastoralist economic landscape are critical to nomadic pastoralist communities (see also Houle 2009). This scenario is not one that requires chiefs; much of the decision making could be done by individual herders or ad hoc collectives (Mearns 1996;Murphy in press).…”
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“…This knowledge includes ways to navigate both environmental landscapes and social networks. These modern day herders provide a useful ethnographic analogy, when applied cautiously, for the semi-nomadic nature of the early herders of Mongolia [12,17,18].…”
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