The world of the ancient Silk Road
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Liu, Xinru,
Brancaccio, Pia, 1966- |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2023.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st edition |
| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (xx, 593 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Routledge worlds.
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| Schlagworte: | |
| Parallelausgabe: |
World of the ancient Silk Road (Print version:) | ISSN: 9780367199968 |
| Online Zugang: |
Taylor & Francis |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Xinru Liu
- Kongquehe bronze age culture: a page of early Eurasian history / Wang Binghua
- Tocharian controversy : a mobile language landscape of Central Asia / Xinru Liu
- Aramaic in the first millennium BCE : its reception and diffusion / Liu Jian
- Qirqiz, a people in the forest and on the Steppe / Jia Yiken
- Invention and spread of horse chariots around Afro-Eurasia / Bruno Genito
- Horse wagon with bronze wheel felloe from Zhouyuan - implication to the exchanges between the East and West / Wang Peng
- Natural and cultural history of the camel / Renato Sala
- Cannabis and other plants with peculiar properties on the Silk Road / Kazim Abdullaev
- Horse archery and the rise and fall of nomadic empires on the Eurasian Steppe / Craig Benjamin
- The Kushans, viz. the Dà Yuèzhī : a century-long fallacy / Shoshin Kuwayama
- Looking for the city of horse, Mingtepa during the time of Dayuan Kingdom / Zhu Yanshi and Liu Tao
- Qirqiz/Kyrgyz, a people lived between empires / Jia Yiken
- Images of knights on the great Silk Road / Kazim Abdullaev
- Rise and demise of Jingjue Kingdom, a case of Tarim oasis politics / Ye Junshi
- Astana, Jiaohe and other Turfan cemeteries: the movement of people, ideas, and objects in Gaochang Kingdom (442-640) / Armin Selbitschka
- Turfan, the frontier transmitting smallpox to Tang China / Song Xian
- Caravan cities in the Roman near East : Palmyra and Petra / Hamish Cameron
- The Chitral l Yaβγu 雙靡翕侯 and a route southward in the 1st century BCE / Shoshin Kuwayama
- Kābul and the regional centers of Eastern Afghanistan in their historical perspective / Minoru Inaba
- Routes of Swat: new perspectives / Luca M. Olivieri
- The Silk Road and the "Cotton Road" : Buddhist art and practice between Central Asia and the Western Deccan / Pia Branccacio
- Egyptian textiles and networks of exchange prior to and following the Arab-Islamic conquest / Arielle Winnik
- ... [long field truncated]
