Reconfiguring the Silk Road
Reconfiguring the Silk Road new research on east-west exchange in antiquity / [electronic resource] :
edited by Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman.
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2014
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 104 pages) :) illustrations (some color), maps.
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
"The papers of a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology March 19, 2011." Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : the Silk Roads before silk / Colin Renfrew -- Introduction : reconceptualizing the Silk Roads / Victor H. Muir -- At the limits : long-distance trade in the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kings / J.G. Manning -- The Silk Road in late antiquity / Peter Brown -- The northern cemetery : epigone or progenitor of Small River Cemetery no. 5 / Victor H. Muir -- More light on the Xinjiang textiles / Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- Seeds for the soul : ideology and diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia / Michael D. Frachetti -- Horseback riding and Bronze Age pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes / David W. Anthony and Dorcas R. Brown -- Indo-European dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe / J.P. Mallory -- Concluding comments : reconfiguring the Silk Road, or when does the Silk Road emerge and how does it qualitatively change over time? / Philip L. Kohl -- Index.
9781934536698 1934536695
East and West--Congresses.
Trade routes--History--Asia, Central--Congresses.
Silk Road--History--Congresses.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS33.1 / .R43 2014
950
"The papers of a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology March 19, 2011." Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : the Silk Roads before silk / Colin Renfrew -- Introduction : reconceptualizing the Silk Roads / Victor H. Muir -- At the limits : long-distance trade in the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kings / J.G. Manning -- The Silk Road in late antiquity / Peter Brown -- The northern cemetery : epigone or progenitor of Small River Cemetery no. 5 / Victor H. Muir -- More light on the Xinjiang textiles / Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- Seeds for the soul : ideology and diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia / Michael D. Frachetti -- Horseback riding and Bronze Age pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes / David W. Anthony and Dorcas R. Brown -- Indo-European dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe / J.P. Mallory -- Concluding comments : reconfiguring the Silk Road, or when does the Silk Road emerge and how does it qualitatively change over time? / Philip L. Kohl -- Index.
9781934536698 1934536695
East and West--Congresses.
Trade routes--History--Asia, Central--Congresses.
Silk Road--History--Congresses.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS33.1 / .R43 2014
950