Searching for nomads in Iron Age Thrace

Adela Sobotkova

Searching for nomads in Iron Age Thrace

Adela Sobotkova

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Abstract

Mobile lifestyle is frequently used to explain lacunae in archaeological evidence, such as the absence of permanent and longterm occupations in the archaeological record of 1st millennium BC Thrace. In this paper, I investigate the feasibility of Iron Age nomadic pastoralism, defined as an economic activity in which the whole community moves along with the herds. New paleoecological, paleo-diet, and settlement data produced by the Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project, when complemented by historical and ethnographic sources, show that the necessary conditions for nomadic pastoralism were not present in Thrace during the 1st millennium BC.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Black Sea in the light of new archaeological data and theoretical approaches
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 18-20 September 2015
Editors	Manolis Manoledakis
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Archaeopress
Pages	77-87
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9781784915100
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016
Event	International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity (2nd : 2015) - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 18 Sept 2015 → 20 Sept 2015

Conference

Conference	International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity (2nd : 2015)
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	18/09/15 → 20/09/15

Keywords

nomadic pastoralism
subsistence practices
paleo-diet
Iron Age
Bulgaria

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Sobotkova, A 2016, Searching for nomads in Iron Age Thrace. in M Manoledakis (ed.), The Black Sea in the light of new archaeological data and theoretical approaches: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 18-20 September 2015. Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 77-87, International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity (2nd : 2015), Thessaloniki, Greece, 18/09/15.

Searching for nomads in Iron Age Thrace. / Sobotkova, Adela.
The Black Sea in the light of new archaeological data and theoretical approaches: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 18-20 September 2015. ed. / Manolis Manoledakis. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2016. p. 77-87.

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