From: kalyan97
Message: 13367
Date: 2002-04-19
--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
However, I wasn't talking of "Reiternomadismus" but rather of semi-
nomadic transhumant herding, combined with some complementary
resources (including plough agriculture on a limited scale). The line
between that and "sedentary farming" is thinly drawn and easy to
cross.
Add to the complementary resources a change in mindset: treating land
as an item of property to be possessed by a family and defended by a
gan.a (group with commonly perceived world-views). The evolution of
the territorial imperative should have occurred when the pasture land
needed for the herded cattle became a scare resource relative to the
size of the population of 'settlers'.