Publication details
Resources and spatial analysis at actual Nenets campsites: Ethnoarchaeological implications
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2010.10.002 |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Ethnoarchaeology Mobile populations Nenets Polar Ural Siberia Resources Settlement structure |
| Description | The aim of this paper is to present and discuss empirical evidence on the dynamics of occupation and site formation processes from contemporary mobile campsites in Northwestern Siberia. The questions posed are generally derived from archaeological studies of Upper Palaeolithic record in Europe. We document the active Nenets summer camps at lakes and abandoned winter and spring camps in the open tundra and the forest tundra. Analysis of floral and faunal resources shows that plant resources and and fish are available predominantely in the summer while reindeer are abundant in these regions in fall and winter when they return from the summer pastures from the north. When natural resources are not available, groups supplement with food purchased at shops. Within these living camps, "structures évidentes" and "structures and latentes" of classical French paleoethnology cannot be distinguished as clearly as at Upper Paleolithic sites. |