Inhaltsangabe: Reconfiguring the Silk Road :

Körperschaft:	University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Weitere Verfasser:	Mair, Victor H., 1943- Hickman, Jane.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr:	Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2014.
Umfang/Format:	xiv, 104 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), charts ; 29 cm.
Schlagworte:	Seiden Straße Einflüsse > de Handel > de Kongresse Kulturaustausch Wirtschaft > de Trade routes > Asia, Central > History > Congresses. East and West > Congresses. Silk Road > History > Congresses. Silk Road > Antiquities > Congresses. Asia, Central > Antiquities > Congresses. Asia > eng > Antiquities > Congresses.
iDAI.gazetteer:	Asia
Inhalte/Bestandteile:	1 Datensätze

Inhaltsangabe:

List of figures
Contributors
Foreword. The Silk Roads before silk / Colin Renfrew
Introduction. Reconceptualizing the Silk Roads / Victor H. Mair
Chapter 1. At the limits : long-distance trade in the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic kings / J.G. Manning
Chapter 2. The Silk Road in late antiquity / Peter Brown
Chapter 3. The Northern Cemetery : epigone or progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5? / Victor H. Mair
Chapter 4. More light on the Xinjiang textiles / Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Chapter 5. Seeds for the soul : ideology and diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia / Michael D. Frachetti
Chapter 6. Horseback riding and Bronze Age pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes / David W. Anthony and Dorcas R. Brown
Chapter 7. Indo-European dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe / J.P. Mallory
Chapter 8. Concluding comments. Reconfiguring the Silk Road, or When does the Silk Road emerge and how does it qualitatively change over time? / Philip L. Kohl
Index.