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DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2017.08.038
	A pastoral landscape for millennia: Investigating pastoral mobility in northeastern Jordan using quantitative spatial analyses
	Meister, Julia 1,2; Knitter, Daniel 3; Krause, Jan 1,2; Mueller-Neuhof, Bernd 2,4; Schuett, Brigitta 1,2
通讯作者	Meister, Julia
会议名称	EGU Session on GM6.2/SSS3.10 on Geoarchaeology - Human Adaptation to Landscape Changes, Landscape Resilience to Human Impact and Integrating Palaeoevnironmental and Archaeological Records
会议日期	2016
会议地点	Vienna, AUSTRIA
英文摘要	Northeastern Jordan is one of the few remaining regions in the Middle East where pastoral nomadism is still practiced. In this desert region, pastoral mobility is an adapted land use able to cope with low rainfall rates, great seasonal and annual rainfall variations and thus heterogeneous vegetation and water availability. During winter, herders and their livestock move into the desert; in summer they move to the desert margins to places with perennial water supply. First traces of mobile pastoralism date back to the beginning of the Late Neolithic. Within the basaltic region of northeastern Jordan, there is a dense distribution of archaeological remains; some of them can be linked to pastoral groups due to the herders' ancient practice of building agglomerations of sub-circular enclosures ('clustered enclosures') made of basalt boulders for corralling their flocks and domestic activities. These features provide an excellent opportunity to investigate a landscape that shows traces of pastoral activity since eight to nine Millennia. In this study, 9118 clustered enclosures in the northeastern Jordanian basalt desert have been systematically recorded using satellite imagery. In order to investigate potential migration or communication routes, grazing lands and social interactions of former pastoralists, we examine their first- and second-order characteristics using distance and density based approaches of point pattern analyses by integrating geomorphometric and geomorphological site properties. The results of this spatial analysis are combined with available archaeological data and a review on traditional herding practices in northeastern Jordan. Overall, the results demonstrate that the observed spatial distribution of clustered enclosures is influenced locally by natural characteristics but regionally by cultural practices. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Mobile pastoralism Pastoral campsites Clustered enclosures Point pattern analyses Traditional herding practices Migration pattern
来源出版物	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	1040-6182
EISSN	1873-4553
出版年	2019
卷号	501
页码	364-378
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
类型	Article; Proceedings Paper
语种	英语
国家	Germany
收录类别	CPCI-S
WOS记录号	WOS:000460735100008
WOS关键词	BASALT PLATEAU ; WISAD POOLS ; OLD MEN ; DESERT ; BADIA ; GEOMORPHOLOGY ; EXPLOITATION ; GROUNDWATER ; RESOURCES ; SYSTEMS
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
资源类型	会议论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/308345
作者单位	1.Freie Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Phys Geog, Malteserstr 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany; 2.TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Hittorfstr 18, D-14195 Berlin, Germany; 3.Christian Albrechts Univ Kiel, Dept Geog, Ludwig Meyn Str 14, D-24098 Kiel, Germany; 4.German Archaeol Inst, Orient Dept, Podbielskiallee 69-71, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Meister, Julia,Knitter, Daniel,Krause, Jan,et al. A pastoral landscape for millennia: Investigating pastoral mobility in northeastern Jordan using quantitative spatial analyses[C]:PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD,2019:364-378.