TY - BOOK AU - Hickman,Jane AU - Mair,Victor H. ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Reconfiguring the Silk Road: new research on east-west exchange in antiquity SN - 9781934536698 AV - DS33.1 .R43 2014 U1 - 950 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - East and West KW - Congresses KW - Trade routes KW - Asia, Central KW - History KW - Silk Road KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781934536698/ ER -