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Most nomads usually move within the same region and do not travel very far. Since they usually circle around a large area, communities form and families generally know where the other ones are. Often, families do not have the resources to move from one province to another unless they are moving out of the area permanently.
Identifications are made on the basis of how well, if at all, the projected migration routes and times of migration fit the distribution of Indo-European languages, and how closely the sociological model of the original society reconstructed from Proto-Indo-European lexical items fits the archaeological profile.
Eurasian steppe nomads shared common Earth-rooted cosmological beliefs based on the themes of sky worship. [18] Ancient Turkic origin myths often reference caves or mines as a source of their ancestors, which reflects the importance of iron making among their ancestors. [18] Ageism was a feature of ancient Eurasian nomad culture. [19]
Seasonal migration over short distance is known as transhumance (as e.g. in the Alps or Vlachs in the Balkans) and is not normally considered "nomadism". [ citation needed ] Sometimes also described as "nomadic" (in the figurative or extended sense) is the itinerant lifestyle of various groups subsisting on craft, trade or seasonal labour ...
The migration of the Bulgars after the fall of Old Great Bulgaria in the 7th century. The Bulgars (also Bulghars, Bulgari, Bolgars, Bolghars, Bolgari, [24] Proto-Bulgarians [25]) were Turkic semi-nomadic warrior tribes that flourished in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and the Volga region during the 7th century.
Migration by an Indo-European-speaking people was first hypothesized in the mid 17th century, by Dutch scholar Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, in his Scythian language and people hypothesis, to explain the linguistic similarities of the Indo-European language family, that had been identified a century earlier; he proposed a single source or origin ...
The very similar marine migration hypothesis is a variant of coastal migration; essentially its only difference is that it postulates that boats were the principal means of travel. The proposed use of boats adds a measure of flexibility to the chronology of coastal migration, because a continuous ice-free coast (16–15,000 calibrated years BP ...
Most, or all, of the following ethnonyms probably do not correspond to one community; many are locally or regionally used (sometimes as occupational names), others are used only by group members, and still others are used pejoratively only by outsiders. Most peripatetic nomads have traditions that they originate from South Asia.