The prehistory of the Silk Road / E.E. Kuzmina ; edited by Victor H. Mair.
Kuzʹmina, E. E. (Elena Efimovna); Mair, Victor H., 1943-
2008
DS328 .K89 2008 (Mapit)
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Title The prehistory of the Silk Road / E.E. Kuzmina ; edited by Victor H. Mair.
Author Kuzʹmina, E. E. (Elena Efimovna)
ISBN 9780812240412 (alk. paper)
0812240413 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Language English
Description xii, 248 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number DS328 .K89 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 939/.6
Summary "The majority of the Silk Road routes passed through the Eurasian Steppe, whose nomadic peoples were participants and mediators in its economic and cultural exchanges. Until now, the origins of these routes and relationships have not been examined in great detail. In The Prehistory of the Silk Road, E. E. Kuzmina, renowned Russian archaeologist, looks at the history of this crucial area before the formal establishment of Silk Road trade and diplomacy. From the late Neolithic period to the early Bronze Age, Kuzmina traces the evolution of the material culture of the Steppe and the contact between civilizations that proved critical to the development of the widespread trade that would follow, including nomadic migrations, the domestication and use of the horse and the camel, and the spread of wheeled transport." "The Prehistory of the Silk Road combines detailed research in archaeology with evidence from physical anthropology, linguistics, and other fields, incorporating both primary and secondary sources from a range of languages, including a vast accumulation of Russian-language scholarship largely untapped in the West. The book is complemented by an extensive bibliography that will be of great use to scholars."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Mair, Victor H., 1943-
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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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