Resilient herders: A deeply stratified multiperiod habitation site in northwestern Mongolia

Currently, the development of mobile pastoralism in Mongolia is known almost exclusively from burial and ritual contexts. Here we present results archaeological excavations geoarchaeological work carried out at a deeply stratified multiperiod habitation site northwestern Mongolia. Data include an unprecedented number well-preserved artifacts, faunal botanical remains, sedimentary information, chronology that document this region. Our findings index local durability pastoralist occupation over 4000 years, as well adaptive resilience herders here, indeed up to day, despite major changes sociopolitical, socioeconomic, environmental conditions through time.