Sentences with phrase «nomadic herders»

December 5, 2016 • The sparsely populated nation of nomadic herders rode China's booming economy by supplying it with coal.

About 5,300 years ago, the local hunter - gatherer cultures were replaced in many places by nomadic herders, dubbed the Yamnaya, who were able to expand rapidly by exploiting horses and the new invention of the cart, and who left behind big, rich burial sites.

As Goulden parsed meteorological records and the results of more than 100 interviews he and his Mongolian wife, Tuya, had conducted with nomadic herders in the northern provinces of Hovsgol and Khentii, he paused and apologized to the audience: «I'm sorry to bring all this depressing news to you.»

Nomadic herders living on western Asia's hilly grasslands made a couple of big moves east and west around 5,000 years ago.

For centuries, the typical image of Mongolia has been nomadic herders on horseback living in yurts or gers.

According to World Watch Monitor, nomadic herders attacked the village of Kodumun in the predominantly Christian area of Demsa in Adamawa State (above), north - eastern Nigeria, on Tuesday.

The clashes used to be confined to Nigeria's central region, with the mainly Christian Berom farming community in Plateau state engaging in tit - for - tat killings with Muslim nomadic herders.

Central and northern Europeans next experienced large DNA changes at the start of the Bronze Age around 5,000 years ago, with the arrival of nomadic herders from western Asia (SN: 7/11/15, p. 11).

Dr. Michael von Fricken explored this association using a multidisciplinary One Health research approach, which focused on the interaction between nomadic herders, the livestock they own, and the tick - borne diseases they are exposed to.

The finding supports the somewhat controversial theory that nomadic herders known as Kurgans in the southern Urals expanded into Europe 4500 to 3500 years ago, bringing Indo - European languages with them, Peltonen's group concludes.

He's an AMAZING story teller, his Mongolian cashmere company is so cool, but most of all, I love his vision for impacting nomadic herders in Mongolia while also disrupting the entire cashmere industry in a positive way.

It's a nation of nomadic herders whose history goes back to Genghis Khan.

Gankhuyag, a former nomadic herder who now works in Ulaanbaatar as a porter, stands inside his ger on the outskirts of town.

When I was in Mongolia for World Environment Day, the topic of how the government would protect the traditional nomadic herder lifestyle while also taking advantage of opportunities for rapid economic development, such as mining and wind and solar power, was a huge focus of conversation.

Indigenous groups of nomadic herders say their lands are being destroyed and water sources poisoned by mining, with ponds full of toxins littering the countryside.

Many types of fermented milk products were also first produced and consumed in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa by nomadic herders.

Though genetic findings are rewriting the story of nomadic herders, their role in the Bronze Age is still somewhat murky.

You can keep sheep if you're a nomadic herder, but if you settle down and become a pastoralist, planting grain and fruit trees, etc., it becomes much more difficult to follow a nomadic God... Is there something in here about being ready to be followers, rather than settlers?

DNA samples revealed that a group of nomadic herders, the Yamnaya, swept into Europe from the plains of today's Russia and Ukraine sometime between 5000 and 4800 years ago, bringing their culture and, perhaps, the Proto - Indo - European language with them.

I'm not paleo - I guess I'd call my ancestral diet the «nomadic herder».

Gankhuyag, 38, abandoned his life as a nomadic herder and moved here a few years ago with his family to work as a porter.

The scenic paths connecting small villages in northeast Turkey have been trod for centuries by nomadic herders.

Or nomadic herders?