Reconfiguring the Silk Road
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Reconfiguring the Silk Road

New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity

  1. 136 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Reconfiguring the Silk Road

New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity

About this book

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. Contributors: David W. Anthony, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Dorcas R. Brown, Peter Brown, Michael D. Frachetti, Jane Hickman, Philip L. Kohl, Victor H. Mair, J. P. Mallory, Joseph G. Manning, Colin Renfrew.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. RECONFIGURING THE SILK ROAD: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. List of Figures
  7. Contributors
  8. Foreword: The Silk Roads before Silk
  9. Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Silk Roads
  10. Chapter 1: At the Limits: Long-Distance Trade in the Time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kings
  11. Chapter 2: The Silk Road in Late Antiquity
  12. Chapter 3: The Northern Cemetery: Epigone or Progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5?
  13. Chapter 4: More Light on the Xinjiang Textiles
  14. Chapter 5: Seeds for the Soul: Ideology and Diffusion of Domesticated Grains across Inner Asia
  15. Chapter 6: Horseback Riding and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes
  16. Chapter 7: Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe
  17. Chapter 8: Concluding Comments: Reconfiguring the Silk Road, or When Does the Silk Road Emerge and How Does It Qualitatively Change over Time?
  18. Index