Reconfiguring the Silk Road : new research on East-West exchange in antiquity /

Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research on the earliest cultural interactions along the trade and migration routes across Eurasia, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over time.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Hickman, Jane; Mair, Victor H.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9781934536698
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Summary: Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research on the earliest cultural interactions along the trade and migration routes across Eurasia, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over time.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(136pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: 31 color, 9 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9781934536698
Index Number: DS329
CLC: K304
Contents: Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
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Foreword. The Silk Roads before Silk /
Introduction. Reconceptualizing the Silk Roads /
Chapter 1. At the Limits /
Chapter 2. The Silk Road in Late Antiquity /
Chapter 3. The Northern Cemetery: Epigone or Progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5? /
Chapter 4. More Light on the Xinjiang Textiles /
Chapter 5. Seeds for the Soul /
Chapter 6 Horseback Riding and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes /
Chapter 7. Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe /
Chapter 8. Concluding Comments /
Index.