Reconfiguring the Silk Road : : New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity / / ed. by Victor H. Mair, Jane Hickman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Anthony, David W.,; Brown, Dorcas R.,; Brown, Peter,; Frachetti, Michael D.,; Kohl, Philip L.,; Mair, Victor H.,; Mallory, J.P.,; Manning, J.G.,; Renfrew, Colin,; Wayland Barber, Elizabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Hickman, Jane,; Mair, Victor H.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Renfrew, Colin.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.) :; 31 color, 9 b/w illus.

From the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, a network of trade and migration routes brought people from across Eurasia into contact. Their commerce included political, social, and artistic ideas, as well as material goods such as metals and textiles. Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research on the earliest trade and cultural interactions along these routes, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over time. This volume features contributions by renowned scholars uncovering new discoveries related to populations that lived in the Tarim Basin, the advanced state of textile manufacturing in the region, and the diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia. Other chapters include an analysis of the dispersal of languages across the Eurasian Steppe and a detailed examination of the domestication of the horse in the region. Contextualized with a foreword by Colin Renfrew and introduction by Victor Mair, Reconfiguring the Silk Road provides a new assessment of the intercultural evolution along the steppes and beyond.Contributors: David W. Anthony, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Dorcas R. Brown, Peter Brown, Michael D. Frachetti, Jane Hickman, Philip L. Kohl, Victor H. Mair, J. P. Mallory, Joseph G. Manning, Colin Renfrew.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Foreword. The Silk Roads before Silk -- Introduction. Reconceptualizing the Silk Roads -- Chapter 1. At the Limits -- Chapter 2. The Silk Road in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 3. The Northern Cemetery: Epigone or Progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5? -- Chapter 4. More Light on the Xinjiang Textiles -- Chapter 5. Seeds for the Soul -- Chapter 6 Horseback Riding and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes -- Chapter 7. Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe -- Chapter 8. Concluding Comments -- Index