"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.
Contents:
Index. Philip L. Kohl -- 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.
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