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DESCRIPTION:PhD candidate\, Aspen Greaves\, will defend her dissertation "A
 gropastoralist Subsistence of Households in the Mongol Empire".\n\nHow did
  hinterland households navigate life during the Mongol Empire? In Tarvagat
 ai Valley\, north central Mongolia\, it was    through flexible mult
 iresource pastoralism predicated on pastoralist animal management\, small-
 scale agriculture\, and household metallurgical production. This dissertat
 ion used a multimethod approach\, combining paleoethnobotany\, zooarchaeol
 ogy\, geophysical survey\, and traditional excavation methods to holistica
 lly explore a unique household context from the Mongol period (13-14th cen
 tury). \n\nRather than intensifying production for imperial markets or mai
 ntaining isolated traditional practices\, households at Tsagaan Ereg graft
 ed new economic activities onto existing pastoral lifeways without fundame
 ntally reorganizing their livestock management. This household-scale persp
 ective reveals how ordinary families in the empire's heartland actively sh
 aped their own economic strategies\, challenging elite historical narrativ
 es about imperial transformation.
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LOCATION:Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, 3106
SUMMARY:Dissertation Defense- Agropastoralist Subsistence of Households in 
 the Mongol Empire
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 oralist-subsistence-of-households-in-the-mongol-empire
CATEGORIES:Defenses
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