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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mair, Victor H., 1943-

Hickman, Jane

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade routes.

History.

Silk Road--History--Congresses.

Silk Road.

Trade routes--Asia, Central--History--Congresses.

East and West--Congresses.

East and West.

Central Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1934536687

9781934536681

OCLC:

862207315

Publisher Number:

99959860605