The publication of data relevant to prehistoric socio-economies in southern Central Asia is growing, and it intersects with long-standing questions about how mixed farming-herding subsistence economies were organized on local and regional scales. We present new faunal data from the campsite of Ojakly in south-central Turkmenistan, dated to the Late Bronze Age (1900–1500 BCE). We situate the zooarchaeological data within the site’s overall excavation results and against similarly-contextualized fauna and archaeological remains from culturally-related sites, particularly those reported from the BMAC/Oxus site of Gonur-depe. Despite some overlaps in the domestic animal species utilized at Ojakly and at nearby farming-focused sites in the Murghab, there is a clear contrast in terms of the subsistence focus and practices, beyond what would be expected if these groups were specialized economic sub-sets of a single socio-cultural tradition. The faunal patterns at Ojakly are consistent with a pastoral population that exclusively managed mixed herds as a full-time subsistence strategy. The analysis presented here fits within the vein of identifying localized socio-economic adaptations of mobile pastoralists, especially as they blur traditional notions of “nomadic” and “farming” economies. At the same time, they add to larger datasets of temporal and regional relevance, and they are discussed within broader patterns known from published material.

与中亚南部史前社会经济相关的数据的发布正在增长，并且与长期存在的问题相交叉，即如何在地方和区域范围内组织混合农牧自给经济。我们提供了来自土库曼斯坦中南部 Ojakly 营地的新动物数据，可追溯到青铜时代晚期（公元前 1900-1500 年）。我们将动物考古数据置于该遗址的整体挖掘结果中，并针对来自文化相关遗址的类似背景的动物群和考古遗迹，特别是从 Gonur-depe 的 BMAC/Oxus 遗址报告的那些。尽管在 Ojakly 和 Murghab 附近以农业为重点的地点使用的家畜物种存在一些重叠，但在生存重点和实践方面存在明显对比，如果这些群体是单一社会文化传统的专门经济子集，那将超出预期。Ojakly 的动物群模式与将混合畜群作为全职维持生计策略的牧区人口一致。这里提出的分析符合确定流动牧民的本地社会经济适应的脉络，特别是当他们模糊了“游牧”和“农业”经济的传统概念时。同时，它们添加到具有时间和区域相关性的更大数据集，并在从已发表材料中已知的更广泛模式中进行讨论。Ojakly 的动物群模式与将混合畜群作为全职维持生计策略的牧区人口一致。这里提出的分析符合确定流动牧民的本地社会经济适应的脉络，特别是当他们模糊了“游牧”和“农业”经济的传统概念时。同时，它们添加到具有时间和区域相关性的更大数据集，并在从已发表材料中已知的更广泛模式中进行讨论。Ojakly 的动物群模式与将混合畜群作为全职维持生计策略的牧区人口一致。这里提出的分析符合确定流动牧民的本地社会经济适应的脉络，特别是当他们模糊了“游牧”和“农业”经济的传统概念时。同时，它们添加到具有时间和区域相关性的更大数据集，并在从已发表材料中已知的更广泛模式中进行讨论。