Central Asia in antiquity
Subtitle: interdisciplinary approaches
By: edited by Borja Antela-Bernárdez, Jordi Vidal
Contributors: Antela Bernárdez, Borja, 1977- editor
Series: BAR international series -- 2665; BAR international series -- 2665.
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd; British Archaeological Reports
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781407313115
Subjects: Antiquities
Description: "Central Asia is a wide subject of research in the archaeological and historical studies of the Ancient World. Scholars have usually focused on the complex and diverse questions that resulted from the analysis of the historical realities of this key region during Antiquity. The purpose of this book is to undertake an approach to the polymorphic and multiple aspects of Central Asia in Antiquity from several points of view. The starting point is the confidence in an interdisciplinary perspective as the main way to understand the different aspects of the region in a very wide chronology: from the emergence of the cities and their relation with the nomadic populations, to the expansion of models and practices from Central Asia to the West during the campaigns and conquests led by Islam. Through subjects like warfare, gender studies and historiography, mainly from an archaeological point of view, the chapters analyze concrete sites like Mes Aynak, Uch Kulakh or Vardanzeh, but also models of interaction among the historical peoples living in Asia Central, like the Bactrians and the Persians, the Persians and Macedonians, the Greeks and the Indians, the Sassanid and the Romans, or even the Sassanid and the Steppe peoples. The result is a very clear example of the richness of starting an interdisciplinary dialogue with the intention of improving our perspectives and understandings of the complex relationships that, through Antiquity, the people living in Central Asia had developed and how scholars can, through archaeology and other related disciplines, approach the historical questions that arise in a close study of the subjects."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.