The prehistory of the Silk Road
By: E.E. Kuzmina ; edited by Victor H. Mair.
Contributors: Mair, Victor H., 1943-
Series: Encounters with Asia
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780812240412
Subjects: Bronze age -- Asia, Central; Asia, Central -- Antiquities; Silk Road -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: The dynamics of the Eurasian steppe ecology; title: Economic developments in the Ponto-Caspian steppe; title: The first stage of the food-producing economy; title: The second stage of the food-producing economy; title: The domestication and early use of the horse; title: The development of the pit-grave cultural community; title: The spread of wheeled transport: a prerequisite to the opening of the Great Silk Road routes; title: The Eurasian steppe in the Bronze Age; title: Proto-urban culture in the Urals; title: The chariots of the Eurasian steppe; title: The crisis of complex economy, the development of nomadism in the Eurasian steppe, and the origins of the Great Silk Road routes; title: The origin and spread of the Bactrian camel; title: Archaeological cultures of southern Central Asia; title: Southern Turkmenistan; title: The lower and middle part of Transoxiana; title: Ferghana; title: Kirghizstan; title: Relations between eastern and western Central Asia; title: Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Copper Age, and the Tocharian question; title: Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Bronze Age.