CAMP focuses on six key areas of Africa and Asia, all of them nowadays characterized by:

• (i) a hyper-arid or arid dry climate
• (ii) the presence of groups of subsistence pastoralists with small herds of cattle/camels and/or flocks of sheep/goats
• (iii) a flexible settlement pattern based upon opportunistic mobility combined with other economic activities
• (iv) the presence of pastoral archaeological sites that will be excavated in extension.

The ethnoarchaeological study of pastoralism is set in Botswana, Sudan, and Pakistan, while the archaeological study will be carried out in these areas and also in Kenya, Morocco, and Tunisia.