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Title

Reconfiguring the Silk Road : new research on East-West exchange in antiquity / edited by Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman.

Publication

• Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2014.
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mair, Victor H., 1943-
• Hickman, Jane
• University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, host institution.
• Reconfiguring the Silk Road : New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity (2011 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Description

xiv, 104 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), charts; 29 cm

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Silk Road : new research on East-West exchange in antiquity

Subject

• Trade routes > Asia, Central > History > Congresses
• East and West > Congresses
• Antiquities
• East and West
• Trade routes
• Route de la soie > Antiquité > Actes de congrès
• Historia
• Fornlämningar
• Silk Road > History > Congresses
• Silk Road > Antiquities > Congresses
• Asia, Central > Antiquities > Congresses
• Asia > Antiquities > Congresses
• Asia
• Asia, Central
• Asia > Silk Road
• Méditerranée (région) > Conditions économiques
• Sidenvägen

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "The papers of a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, March 19, 2011."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: The Silk Roads before silk / Colin Renfrew -- Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Silk Roads / Victor H. Mair -- 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. Mair -- 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.

Call Number

JFF 16-776

ISBN

• 1934536687 (acid-free paper)
• 9781934536681 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2012474783

OCLC

862207315

Title

Reconfiguring the Silk Road : new research on East-West exchange in antiquity / edited by Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman.

Publisher

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mair, Victor H., 1943- editor.

Hickman, Jane, editor.

University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, host institution.

Reconfiguring the Silk Road : New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity (2011 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Research Call Number

JFF 16-776