The Prehistory of the Silk Road /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Foreword; A Note on Transcription; Introduction; 1. The Dynamics of the Eurasian Steppe Ecology; 2. 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; 3. 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, and the Origins of the Great Silk Road RoutesThe Origin and Spread of the Bactrian Camel; 4. Archaeological Cultures of Southern Central Asia; Southern Turkmenistan; The Lower and Middle Part of Transoxiana; Ferghana; Kirghizstan; 5. Relations Between Eastern and Western Central Asia; Contacts of the Xinjiang People with the West in the Copper Age, and the Tocharian Question; Contacts of the Xinjiang People with the West in the Bronze Age; 6. Conclusion; Appendix. Dating and Comparative Chronologies.
- Maps and IllustrationsNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.