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Imperial horizons of the Silk Roads : archaeological case studies / edited by Branka Franicevic and Marie Nicole Pareja.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Silk Road.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Silk Road--Antiquities.
- Silk Road.
- Silk Road--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2023]
- Summary:
- This volume centres on how the exchange routes transformed the frontier regions of the Silk Road. In doing so, it utilises a range of methods to reach an archaeological interpretation of the factors that linked people with the environment; movements, settlements, and beliefs.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Branka Franicevic and Marie N. Pareja Part One: Human Mobility and Migration Chapter 1: Global Interfaces and the Earliest Evidence for Afro-Eurasian Exchange
- Marie N. Pareja Chapter 2: Genomic Landscape of the Silk Roads: Have Animals Transformed the Trade Routes?
- Branka Franicevic Chapter 3: Changing Peoples and Practices: Exploring the Role of Cross-Cultural Contact in the British Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition
- Anna Bloxam Chapter 4: The Role of Religion in Urban Form During the 7th and 8th Centuries AD at the Extremities of the Silk Roads
- Andy Hutcheson and Simon Kaner Chapter 5: The Period Stigma in Archaeological Studies: A Consideration of Beliefs, Customs, and the Silk Roads
- Dulcie Sidney Daffodil Newbury and Karina Croucher Part Two: Iconographic and Object-Based Inquiries Chapter 6: Polyvalent Goddesses from the Silk Roads
- Marie N. Pareja Chapter 7: Interactions of Change: Pursuing Agentive Materials and Intangible Movements along the Silk Road Network
- Sara Ann Knutson Chapter 8: Sopara Port Site Typology and the Link with Maritime Trade
- Emilia Smagur, Riza Abbas, Sitaram Toraskar and Andrzej Romanowski Chapter 9: Wings Across the Silk Roads: The Art of the Flying Horse in Early China and Beyond
- Robert A. Jones Chapter 10: Chinese Ceramic Exchange in the Maldives and the Indian Ocean, AD 900-1900
- Ran Zhang Chapter 11: Mycenaean Pottery and Pottery Technology as a Tool to Understand Social and Cultural Changes in the Ancient World
- Iro' B. Camici.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80327-405-0
- OCLC:
- 1391444107
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