Imperial Horizons of the Silk Roads : : Archaeological Case Studies / / edited by Branka Franicevic and Marie Nicole Pareja.

• TeilnehmendeR: Franicevic, Branka,; Pareja, Marie N.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress Archaeology,, [2023]; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 pages) :; illustrations, maps

This volume centres on how the exchange routes transformed the frontier regions of the Silk Road. In doing so, it utilises a range of methods to reach an archaeological interpretation of the factors that linked people with the environment; movements, settlements, and beliefs.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Branka Franicevic and Marie N. Pareja Part One: Human Mobility and Migration Chapter 1: Global Interfaces and the Earliest Evidence for Afro-Eurasian Exchange -- Marie N. Pareja Chapter 2: Genomic Landscape of the Silk Roads: Have Animals Transformed the Trade Routes? -- Branka Franicevic Chapter 3: Changing Peoples and Practices: Exploring the Role of Cross-Cultural Contact in the British Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition -- Anna Bloxam Chapter 4: The Role of Religion in Urban Form During the 7th and 8th Centuries AD at the Extremities of the Silk Roads -- Andy Hutcheson and Simon Kaner Chapter 5: The Period Stigma in Archaeological Studies: A Consideration of Beliefs, Customs, and the Silk Roads -- Dulcie Sidney Daffodil Newbury and Karina Croucher Part Two: Iconographic and Object-Based Inquiries Chapter 6: Polyvalent Goddesses from the Silk Roads -- Marie N. Pareja Chapter 7: Interactions of Change: Pursuing Agentive Materials and Intangible Movements along the Silk Road Network -- Sara Ann Knutson Chapter 8: Sopara Port Site Typology and the Link with Maritime Trade -- Emilia Smagur, Riza Abbas, Sitaram Toraskar and Andrzej Romanowski Chapter 9: Wings Across the Silk Roads: The Art of the Flying Horse in Early China and Beyond -- Robert A. Jones Chapter 10: Chinese Ceramic Exchange in the Maldives and the Indian Ocean, AD 900-1900 -- Ran Zhang Chapter 11: Mycenaean Pottery and Pottery Technology as a Tool to Understand Social and Cultural Changes in the Ancient World -- Iro' B. Camici.