The issues of organization and functioning small credit institutions in the nomadic societies Stavropol province 19 th — early 20 centuries are studied. basis source base was legislative acts, verdicts public gatherings clerical correspondence, revealed for first time funds Russian State Historical Archives, Archives Territory National Republic Kalmykia, unveiling process activities auxiliary l...

In this article, I intend to use archaeology’s understanding of deep time and infrastructure explore the ways in which state-making has been challenged Horn Africa during last two millennia. will take a long-term approach state ecology resistance so as eschew presentist bias that is all too frequent political analyses, particularly Africa, prevents us from some undercurrent explain contemporary...

BACKGROUND An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is necessary for developing an appropriate strategy for extending malaria intervention services to them. An exploratory study of their malaria illness experience was carried out in Northern Nigeria preparatory to promoting malaria intervention among them. METHODS Ethnographic tools including interviews, g...

We conducted a multi-isotope study of five fifth-century AD cemeteries in modern-day Hungary to determine relationships between nomadic-pastoralist incomers-the historically documented Huns and other nomadic groups-and the sedentary agricultural population of the late Roman province of Pannonia. Contemporary historical sources describe this relationship as adversarial and destructive for the la...

Continuing advances in wireless communications and feature integration into laptop computers are creating the need to allow nomadic users to make network connections to the Internet and with each other with no loss of functionality. This requires new advances in routing protocols and application interfaces. We use mobile-IP as the basis for providing mobility for nomadic users, and extend it to...

Nomadic populations have played a significant role in the history of not only China but also in many nations worldwide. Because they had no written language, an important aspect in the study of these people is the discovery of their tombs. It has been generally accepted that Xiongnu was the first empire created by nomadic tribe in the 3rd century B.C. However, little population genetic informat...