| Description |
1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Encounters with Asia |
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Encounters with Asia.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Foreword; A Note on Transcription; Introduction; 1. The Dynamics of the Eurasian Steppe Ecology; 2. 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; 3. The Eurasian Steppe in the Bronze Age; Proto-Urban Culture in the Urals; The Chariots of the Eurasian Steppe |
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The Crisis of Complex Economy, the Development of Nomadism in the Eurasian Steppe, and the Origins of the Great Silk Road RoutesThe Origin and Spread of the Bactrian Camel; 4. Archaeological Cultures of Southern Central Asia; Southern Turkmenistan; The Lower and Middle Part of Transoxiana; Ferghana; Kirghizstan; 5. 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; 6. Conclusion; Appendix. Dating and Comparative Chronologies |
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Maps and IllustrationsNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bronze age -- Asia, Central
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Bronze age
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| SUBJECT |
Asia, Central -- Antiquities
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Silk Road -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
Central Asia
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Asia -- Silk Road
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mair, Victor H., , 1943- editor
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| ISBN |
9780812292336 |
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0812292332 |
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1336015160 |
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9781336015166 |
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