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The prehistory of the Silk Road
Title
The prehistory of the Silk Road / E.E. Kuzmina ; edited by Victor H. Mair.
ISBN
9780812240412 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812240413 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xii, 248 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2009
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index.
Contents
The dynamics of the Eurasian steppe ecology
Economic developments in the Ponto-Caspian steppe
The first stage of the food-producing economy
The second stage of the food-producing economy
The domestication and early use of the horse
The development of the pit-grave cultural community
The spread of wheeled transport: a prerequisite to the opening of the Great Silk Road routes
The Eurasian steppe in the Bronze Age
Proto-urban culture in the Urals
The chariots of the Eurasian steppe
The crisis of complex economy, the development of nomadism in the Eurasian steppe, and the origins of the Great Silk Road routes
The origin and spread of the Bactrian camel
Archaeological cultures of southern Central Asia
Southern Turkmenistan
The lower and middle part of Transoxiana
Ferghana
Kirghizstan
Relations between eastern and western Central Asia
Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Copper Age, and the Tocharian question
Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Bronze Age.
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