Given Mongolia's tradition of nomadic herding, it is not difficult for these children to be passed from one relation to another, until the parents have lost touch with them.
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One explanation for this culture of leisure is the hot, dry climate of the peninsula which allowed nomadic herding but permitted agriculture only in a small area ( the southwest corner ).
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Measles outbreaks ( largely among young children ) still occur in Niger, in part because of the low vaccination rate and in part due from the transhumance seasonal migration of semi-nomadic herding populations.
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For the next several decades animal geography, as cultural ecology, was dominated by research into the origins of domestication, cultural rituals around domestication, and different cultures livestock relations ( sedentary versus nomadic herding ).
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The end of the period is marked by the abandonment of the cities and a return to lifestyles based on farming villages and semi-nomadic herding, although specialised craft production continued and trade routes remained open.
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Andean civilization probably began c . 7600 BCE . Based in the highlands of Peru, an area now called the " punas ", the ancestors of the Incas probably began as a nomadic herding people.
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Descendants of the Scythians Scythians ( Greek : ??????, ?????? ) was the name given in antiquity to members of a people or group of peoples of Iranian origin characterized by a culture based on nomadic herding and breeding horses mounted.
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One example is the complicated hypothesis that " the presence of gambling in a society is directly proportional to the presence of a commercial money and to the presence of considerable socioeconomic differences and is inversely related to whether or not the society is a nomadic herding society . " Tests of this hypothesis in a sample of 60 societies failed to reject the null hypothesis.
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Archaeologist Caroline Malone noted that the tombs would have served as one of a variety of markers in the landscape that conveyed information on " territory, political allegiance, ownership, and ancestors . " Many archaeologists have subscribed to the idea that these tomb-shrines served as territorial markers between different tribal groups, although others have argued that such markers would be of little use to a nomadic herding society.
