The practice of imagery in the northern Chinese steppe (5th-1st centuries BCE)
By: Catrin Kost
Series: Bonn contributions to Asian archaeology -- volume 6; Bonn contributions to Asian archaeology -- v. 6.
Publisher: Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bonn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9783936490329
Subjects: Sources; History; Borderlands; Antiquities; Plaques, plaquettes; Catalogs
Notes: Revision of thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2011.

Dissertation was originally submitted under the title Studien zur Bildpraxis im nordchinesischen Steppenraum vom 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zur Zeitenwende.

A study of belt plaques and the diverse visual motifs that distinguish them that are associated with the inhabitants of China's northern frontier.

Includes an extensive catalogue with illustrations of all known belt plaques with their recorded archaeological contexts from the Eastern part of the Eurasian steppe belt.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-195).