Reconfiguring the Silk Road [electronic resource] : new research on east-west exchange in antiquity / edited by Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman.

"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.

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