Reconfiguring the Silk Road : new research on east-west exchange in antiquity

Körperschaft: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Weitere Verfasser: Hickman, Jane.
Mair, Victor H., 1943-
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.
Schlagworte:
East and West > Congresses.
Trade routes > Asia, Central > History > Congresses.
Handel > de
Wirtschaft > de
Kongresse > de
Kulturaustausch
Einflüsse > de
Seiden Straße > de
Asia, Central > Antiquities > Congresses.
Silk Road > Antiquities > Congresses.
Silk Road > History > Congresses.
Asien > deu > Antiquities > Congresses.
iDAI.gazetteer: Asien
Parallelausgabe: Reconfiguring the Silk Road : new research on east-west exchange in antiquity. [Print]
Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
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.

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