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25-27 Nov 2021 Paris (France)
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Thematic session 3Session 3: What traces have nomadic peoples left or still leave in human history?
This session will first address this subject from a genetic point of view with some guiding questions: Are the movements of nomadic populations identifiable? In what way is the notion of nomad relevant to interpret them? What other "proxies"/methods of analysis can be used to characterize the nomadism of past populations? What role did nomadism play in the history of settlement? In the evolutionary history of hominins? Do sedentary lifestyles and nomadic lifestyles leave different traces in the genetic structure of human populations? Here, we may want to complete this approach by also evoking the traces left in the cultural space of nomadic populations: How does nomadism intervene in the structuring of social, technical and economic systems, in that of founding myths and religions, of funerary processes...? Finally, papers could address issues such as the relationship between mobility and the environment; or the actuality of migrants: in the light of human history, can they be considered as nomads; or how do cities re-animate ancient migratory routes? |
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