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Author:   Emily Hammer (University of Pennsylvania )
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009561655

ISBN 10:   1009561650
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   18 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. From orientalist and primitivist tropes to aDNA and isotopes: persistent problems in the archaeology of pastoralism; 2. Resolving conceptual conflation: pastoralism, mobility, complexity, production, and landscapes; 3. Escaping the tyranny of the ethnohistoric record on pastoralism; 4. Bones, teeth, seeds, dung, corrals, and beyond: foundational methodologies applied to landscapes, sites, and assemblages related to the history of pastoralism; 5. Biomolecular approaches to ancient pastoralism, diet, and mobility; 6. Multidisciplinary means of addressing ancient pastoral ecologies and economies; 7. Social and political perspectives on ancient pastoralism; 8. Uniting separate regional traditions for a comparative archaeology of pastoralism; 9. Histories of pastoralism; Revisiting 'Grand Narratives'; Bibliography; Index.

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Emily Hammer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Pennsylvania. An anthropological archaeologist of the Middle East and the South Caucasus, she has conducted fieldwork in the UAE, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Iraq. Her ongoing research contributes to three fields of inquiry: the archaeology of pastoralism, comparative studies of early urbanism in Mesopotamia and its surrounding highlands, and GIS methodologies for environmental and landscape archaeology.

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