Reconfiguring the Silk Road : new research on East-West exchange in antiquity : the papers of a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, March 19, 2011 /

From the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, a network of trade and migration routes brought people from across Eurasia into contact. Their commerce included political, social, and artistic ideas, as well as material goods such as metals and textiles. Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mair, Victor H., 1943- (Editor ), Hickman, Jane (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2014.
Temas:
East and West > Congresses.
Trade routes > Asia, Central > History > Congresses.
Routes commerciales > Asie centrale > Histoire > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
East and West.
Trade routes.
Silk Road > History > Congresses.
Route de la soie > Histoire > Congrès.
Central Asia.
Asia > Silk Road.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:From the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, a network of trade and migration routes brought people from across Eurasia into contact. Their commerce included political, social, and artistic ideas, as well as material goods such as metals and textiles. Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research on the earliest trade and cultural interactions along these routes, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over time. This volume features contributions by renowned scholars uncovering new discoveries related to populations that lived in the Tarim Basin, the advanced state of textile manufacturing in the region, and the diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia. Other chapters include an analysis of the dispersal of languages across the Eurasian Steppe and a detailed examination of the domestication of the horse in the region. Contextualized with a foreword by Colin Renfrew and introduction by Victor Mair, Reconfiguring the Silk Road provides a new assessment of the intercultural evolution along the steppes and beyond.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 104 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1934536695
9781934536698

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