December 5, 2016 • The sparsely populated nation
of nomadic herders rode China's booming economy by supplying it with coal.
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.
Though genetic findings are rewriting the story
of nomadic herders, their role in the Bronze Age is still somewhat murky.
Not exact matches
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.
It's time to put aside faith in an iron age deity from a bunch
of nomadic sheep
herders in the middle east as well.
Examples include the claim that air has weight, 26 the existence
of valleys27 and vents28 on the bottom
of the sea, ocean currents, 29 and the fact that winds blow in circular paths.30 These are remarkable claims that could not have been directly observed by a bunch on
nomadic sheep
herders.
He celebrates his God, shouting and singing words
of exaltation, singing possibly the same songs he had written years earlier as a
nomadic sheep
herder, where his devotion was worked out in the sweat and stench
of his servant situation.
Following complaints
of alleged atrocities being committed by
nomadic herdsmen and the destruction
of farms in Agogo in the Ashanti Region and parts
of the Eastern Region, government re-launched Operation Cow leg which comprised police and military personnel tasked to flush out the
herders and their cattle from those areas.
According to him, this will prevent clashes between
nomadic livestock
herders and crop farmers as well as protect the environment from degradation and pollution caused by open rearing and grazing
of livestock.
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.»
~ A.D. 1000 The Sami,
nomadic Scandinavian reindeer
herders who live north
of the Arctic Circle, believe auroras were spirits
of the dead.
Hoping to solve the problem
of conflicts between
nomadic pastoralists and other tribes, the Ugandan government is exploring plans to move the cattle
herders to agricultural lands.
On July 17, more than 70 million tons
of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains
of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives
of nine
nomadic yak
herders living there.
In the West African outbreak, the spread may have been linked to the movements
of nomadic cattle
herders.
A team led by anthropologist Joseph Henrich
of the University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, tested this with members
of groups including
nomadic African
herders, Colombian fishermen, and Missouri wage workers.
These are a
nomadic group
of cattle
herders in southern Kenya.
Many types
of fermented milk products were also first produced and consumed in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa by
nomadic herders.
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.
Gankhuyag, a former
nomadic herder who now works in Ulaanbaatar as a porter, stands inside his ger on the outskirts
of town.
Through a series
of virtual reality experiences, the viewer is invited into the reality
of a
nomadic family
of yak
herders.
Mongolian pastoral
herders are one
of the world's last remaining
nomadic cultures.
On the other side
of the continent, in the West African Sahel,
nomadic herders are at risk
of many infectious diseases including epidemic malaria and bacterial meningitis (both deadly to non-immune populations and thus the cause
of catastrophic health problems that severely hamper social and economic development in the region).
Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives
of nomadic desert
herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.
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.
For centuries, the typical image
of Mongolia has been
nomadic herders on horseback living in yurts or gers.