Nomads

Pashtuns are an Iranian ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically referred to as Afghans even into the 1970s, although the constitution of 1923 began the use of 'Afghans' as a demonym for all citizens of the Kingdom, regardless of their ethnic group, to create an Afghan national identity.

alt=|thumb|A painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a caravan of nomadic Roma

ethnic group native to South and Central Asia

thumb|upright=1.1|African Pygmies|Central African foragers in the [[Congo Basin in August 2014]] A hunter-gatherer, or forager, is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources or by hunting game. This is a common practice among most vertebrates that are omnivores. Hunter-gatherer groups, usually a few dozen people, were and are nomadic or semi-nomadic. Hunter-gatherer societies are contrasted with more sedentary agricultural societies, which r

ethnic group

In anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time. As of , the large majority of people belong to sedentary cultures. In evolutionary anthropology and archaeology, sedentism takes on a slightly different sub-meaning, often applying to the transition from nomadic society to a lifestyle that involves remaining in one place permanently. Essentially, sedentism means living in groups permanently in one place. The invention of agriculture led to sedentism in many cases, but the earliest sedentary settlements were p

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International sports competition dedicated to Central Asian sports

nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe

form of pastoralism where livestock are herded in order to find fresh pastures on which to graze

thumb|A contemporary yayla at Aladaglar, Turkey thumb|Another modern yayla at Song Kol Lake, Kyrgyzstan Yaylak ( or ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a summer highland pasture associated with transhumance pastoralism in several Central and West Asian Turkic communities. There are different variants of yaylak pastoralism forms of alpine transhumance, some of which are similar to seminomadic pastoralism, although most are similar to herdsman husbandry (such as in mountainous areas of Europe and the Caucasus). However, in the Eurasian steppes, the Middle East and North Africa, yaylak pastoralism often coexists wi

thumb|220px|Kochi people on the move in Panjshir Province of [[Afghanistan]] thumb|A Kochi girl in southern Afghanistan with her sheep

1986 film by John McTiernan

ethnic group

Aimaq tribe of Herat, Afghanistan

Dadaloğlu (Veli) (1785 ?–1868 ?) was a Turkish Ottoman, a folk poet-singer, known as ozan (bard).

nogai nobleman and founder of the Lesser Nogai Horde

kurdish tribal confederation