Nomads who spend the long winters in lower altitudes in the southern areas of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, come up in summer to the higher mountains to take advantage of the rich grazing land. Nomads form two distinct cultural groups: Turkic and Mongolian.

What ethnic group is Nomad?

A nomad (Middle French: nomade "people without fixed habitation") is a member of a community without fixed habitation which regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), and tinkers or trader nomads.

Where are nomads originally from?

Based on the researches in the southwest of Iran, they have estimated that most probably Nomadism began in Iran around 8000 years ago. In 1974, a group of researchers was working on an ancient hill in Andimeshk; they came across an ancient camp used by the Nomads around 8000 years ago.