Screen LibraryThe prehistory of the Silk Road
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Encounters with Asia |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 248 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780812240412 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0812240413 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K360 |
| CLC: | K360.3 |
| Call Number: | K360.3/K978 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index. The dynamics of the Eurasian steppe ecology -- Economic developments in the Ponto-Caspian steppe -- The first stage of the food-producing economy -- The second stage of the food-producing economy -- The domestication and early use of the horse -- The development of the pit-grave cultural community -- The spread of wheeled transport: a prerequisite to the opening of the Great Silk Road routes -- The Eurasian steppe in the Bronze Age -- Proto-urban culture in the Urals -- The chariots of the Eurasian steppe -- The crisis of complex economy, the development of nomadism in the Eurasian steppe, a |