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  2. List of nomadic peoples - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region. Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries .

  3. Cradle of civilization - Wikipedia

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    As seen in Harappa, Mohenjo-daro and the recently partially excavated Rakhigarhi, this urban plan included the world's first known urban sanitation systems: see hydraulic engineering of the Indus Valley civilization. Within the city, individual homes or groups of homes obtained water from wells.

  4. Nomad - Wikipedia

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    Nomads are communities who move from place to place as a way of obtaining food, finding pasture for livestock, or otherwise making a living. Most nomadic groups follow a fixed annual or seasonal pattern of movements and settlements. Nomadic people traditionally travel by animal, canoe or on foot. Animals include camels, horses and alpaca.

  5. Nomads of India - Wikipedia

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    Those Bedia that are still nomadic often employ Muslim Mirasis to train their girls to sing and dance. The Bedia provide services to certain patron families. in North India Boria also known as Baurasi [19] The Boriya are a sub-group of the Pasi community, and speak the Awadhi dialect . Traditionally nomadic, often employed as village watchmen ...

  6. Hut - Wikipedia

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    Hut in a village of Tebat Karai District of Indonesia Hut in farm outside Indian village Hut in Kambalakonda eco park Visakhapatnam A hut in Tharparkar, Sindh An old hunting hut in Utajärvi, Finland. Huts are used by shepherds when moving livestock between seasonal grazing areas such as mountainous and lowland pastures (transhumance).

  7. Transhumance - Wikipedia

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    Transhumance in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. . In montane regions (vertical transhumance), it implies movement between higher pastures in summer and lower valleys in wint

  8. Nabta Playa - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological discoveries reveal that these New Stone Age peoples seem to have lived more organized lives than their contemporaries nearer to and in the Nile Valley. [2] The people of Nabta Playa had villages with 'planned' layouts, with deep wells that held water year-round.

  9. Nubian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Jebel Barkal. The earliest Nubian architecture used perishable materials, wattle and daub, mudbricks, animal hide, and other light and supple materials.Early Nubian architecture consisted of speos, structures derived from the carving of rock, an innovation of the A-Group culture (c. 3800-3100 BCE), as seen in the Sofala Cave rock-cut temple. [1]