pastoralist

(noun)

A person involved in the raising of livestock.

Related Terms

  • pictograph
  • petroglyph

(noun)

A person whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock.

Related Terms

  • pictograph
  • petroglyph

Examples of pastoralist in the following topics:

  • The Nomadic Tribes of Arabia

    • The nomadic pastoralist Bedouin tribes inhabited the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam around 700 CE.
    • The Bedouin tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia were nomadic-pastoralists.
    • Pastoralists depend on their small herds of goats, sheep, camels, horses, or other animals for meat, milk, cheese, blood, fur/wool, and other sustenance.
  • Rock Art in the Sahara

    • It harbors one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric rock art in the entire Sahara, mainly of the Neolithic cattle pastoralist cultures, but also a number of older paintings from hunter-gatherer societies.
    • One petroglyph in Mauritania depicts pastoralists on horseback as they tend their livestock.
    • Neolithic cave painting of either hunters or pastoralists during the Neolithic Subpluvial period.
  • The Four Social Revolutions

    • In a pastoralist society, the primary means of subsistence are domesticated animals (livestock).
    • Like hunter-gatherers, pastoralists are often nomadic, moving seasonally in search of fresh pastures and water for their animals.
    • In a pastoralist society, there is an increased likelihood of surplus food, which, in turn, often results in greater population densities and the development of both social hierarchies and divisions of labor.
    • Pastoralist societies still exist.
  • Lenski's Synthesis

    • The origins of inequality can be found in the transition from hunter/gatherer societies to horticultural/pastoralist societies.
    • In horticultural/pastoralist societies (around 12,000 B.C.), groups grew very large, and humans began to settle in one place.
  • Societal Development

    • Some pastoralist societies also engage in some measure of horticultural food production and most industrial and post-industrial societies still have agriculture, just in a reduced capacity.
    • A pastoralist society is a society in which the primary means of subsistence is domesticated livestock.
    • It is often the case that, like hunter-gatherers, pastoralists are nomadic, moving seasonally in search of fresh pastures and water for their animals.
    • Pastoralist societies still exist.
    • Other examples of pastoralists societies still in existence include:
  • Samburu

    • The Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels.
  • The Silk Road

    • Emperor Wu repelled the invading barbarians (the Xiongnu, or Huns, a nomadic-pastoralist warrior people from the Eurasian steppe) and roughly doubled the size of the empire, claiming lands that included Korea, Manchuria, and even part of Turkistan.
  • The Bantu Migration

    • Before the expansion of farming and pastoralist African peoples, Southern Africa was populated by hunter-gatherers and earlier pastoralists.
  • Social class in America

    • The origins of inequality can be found in the transition from hunter/gatherer societies to horticultural/pastoralist societies.
    • In horticultural/pastoralist societies (around 12,000 B.C.), groups grew to be very large and humans settled down in one place.
    • But in less developed economies - like hunter-gatherer or pastoralist - the transmission of wealth is far more difficult as it involves the physical transferring of goods.
  • Buddhist Wall Paintings

    • In the year 480 CE, the Huns—nomadic-pastoralist warriors from the Eurasian steppe—launched an invasion of India, and by the year 500 CE, they had overrun the Gupta Empire.
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