High Asia network

A thousands years old tradition

"Nomads are indigenous people who move strategically in a given habitat following food opportunities while establishing long-term cyclical patterns of life in specific ecosystems without basically altering the environmental original conditions but adapting to that conditions"

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Traditionally, nomadic peoples
have been classified into three general categories:
hunters-gatherers, pastoralists and itinerants.

Until about 8,000 years ago,
all humans on Earth were nomadic hunters and foragers,
but nowadays these communities form a very small human group.

To this traditional triple scheme can be added a fourth category of
mobile indigenous peoples: those ones engaged into shifting cultivation.

At present-day, most of the nomads are pastoralists.
Born in Neolithic times at environments unfavorable to farming
pastoralists heavily depend on their herds, athough they usually combine
herding practices with trading, cultivation, hunting and gathering.