Reconfiguring the Silk Road : : New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (136 p.) :; 31 color, 9 b/w illus.
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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

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