Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9296430 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jerry H Bentley, Peter B Golden, Irene Good, Carl L Johannessen, Elfriede Regina Knauer, Andrew Sherratt, John L Sorenson, Yan Sun (0000-0001-7588-8444), Michael Witzel |
| Editores | Victor H Mair (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2017 |
| Páginas | 320 |
| Data de publicação | 2017-10-13 |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | BOOK |
| Periódico | Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editora | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780824841676 |
| OpenAlex | W69164588 |
| Open Library | OL29375001M |
| ISBN | 9780824841676 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 93 |
Do civilizations independently invent themselves or are they the result of cultural diffusion? The contributors to this volume do not attempt to provide a definitive answer to this contentious question, one of the most debated issues of the past century. Instead, they shift the focus from theory to reality by presenting empirical evidence on a wide range of cultural phenomena in history and prehistory, thereby demonstrating the processes whereby cultural traits are acquired and modified-the dynamics of transmission and transformation. The range of topics covered in this volume is of extraordinary breadth: the distribution of belt hooks and belts from the steppes to North and Central China; textile exchange in the third millennium B.C.; the spread of bronze metallurgy across Asia; the adaptation of complicated technologies by distant peoples; the mechanisms whereby bronze implements were used to convey political messages in East Asia; the ethnogenesis of the Turks; the complex interrelationships among migratory and settled peoples in western Central Asia during the Bronze Age; the origins of the enigmatic Chinese goddess known as Queen Mother of the West; an account of hunting with trained cheetahs; and the use of abundant botanical and zoological evidence to affirm that the Old World and the New World must have been in contact long before the fifteenth century. Rounding out the volume is a survey of the problem of modernocentrism
Geography · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Linguistics and language evolution
Early emergence and development of pastoralism in Gan-Qing region from the perspective of isotopes
Stable Isotope Analysis of Human and Animal Remains at the Qijiaping Site in Middle Gansu, China
On the Beginnings of South Asian Spice Trade with the Mediterranean Region
Southeast Asia's First Isotopically Defined Prehistoric Copper Production System
Tianshanbeilu and the Isotopic Millet Road
The Metabolic Ghetto
Ethnicity and World‐Systems Analysis
A Divergent Life History of Bronze Willow-Leaf-Shaped Swords of Western Zhou China from the Eleventh to the Tenth Century bce
Proto-globalisation and biotic exchange in the Old World
Introduction
Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid
The Stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia
The Languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the Transmission of Mediterranean Culture into Central Asia
Sasanian Iran and Its Northeastern Frontier
Sasanian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia
Central Asia in the Late Roman Mental Map, Second to Sixth Centuries
Trade and Exchanges along the Silk and Steppe Routes in Late Antique Eurasia
Followers and Leaders in Northeastern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries
Patterns of Roman Diplomacy with Iran and the Steppe Peoples
The Relations between China and the Steppe
“Charismatic” Goods
Ethnicity and Empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes
Aspects of Elite Representation among the Sixth- and Seventh-Century Türks
The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use Between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, India, and the Türks
Byzantium’s Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Türk Empire
Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road
How the Steppes Became Byzantine
Infrastructures of Legitimacy in Inner Asia
Global Networks and Local Agents in the Iron Age Eurasian Steppe
Epilogue
New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe
From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping
Dietary shift after 3600 cal yr BP and its influencing factors in northwestern China
Between China and the Mediterranean
Civilisation Recast
The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
Libation ritual and the performance of kingship in early China
Craft Specialization in the Highland Longshan Society
The First Emperor and sculpture in China
Possible Evidence of Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages Based on Conventional LSC and AMS 14 C Dating of Associated Charcoal and a Carbonized Seed of Custard Apple ( Annona squamosa L.)
Mixing metaphors
China and the steppe
The early adoption of East Asian crops in West Asia
Development of metallurgy in Eurasia
Pots and potters of the Bronze Age of north-west Xinjiang
Shifting materials
Bronze Age textile evidence in ceramic impressions
From Three Possible Iron-Age World-Systems to a Single Afro-Eurasian World-System
Materializing Identity—A Statistical Analysis of the Western Zhou Liulihe Cemetery
Zooarchaeological and Genetic Evidence for the Origins of Domestic Cattle in Ancient China
Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia
A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Historical Sources and y-dna Studies with Regard to the Early and Medieval Turkic Peoples
World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology
Eurasian textiles
Millet consumption in south Xinjiang during the 1st millennium BCE
The virtues of small grain size
The Landscape of China’s Participation in the Bronze Age Eurasian Network
The Transmission of Early Bronze Technology to Thailand
Between Cereal Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
The Roman and Islamic spice trade
The Old Avesta and Birth of Iranian Identity
Rethinking foreign influences on stone-carved tombs in early China
Archaeology and world-systems analysis
Rethinking the origins of Han Dynasty stone-carved tombs
Food globalization in prehistory
Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange
Zooarchaeology, ancient mtDNA, and radiocarbon dating provide new evidence for the emergence of domestic cattle and caprines in the Tao River Valley of Gansu Province, northwest China
Early ceramic trade in Gansu and Qinghai regions, northwest China
Archaeometric investigations of the Molali pottery complex (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)
Bronze Age wool textile and fur items from northern Eurasia
Inside out
Egyptology and Global History
Asian modernities
Cultivation of Naked Barley by Early Iron Age Agro-pastoralists in Xinjiang, China
Feeding Shimao
Imported or indigenous? The earliest forged tin foil found in China
Trade and Power in Ancient Egypt
The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age
Prehistoric trans-continental cultural exchange in the Hexi Corridor, northwest China
How did trans-Eurasian exchanges affect spatial-temporal variation in agricultural patterns during the late prehistoric period in the Yellow River valley (China)
Copper content in anthropogenic sediments as a tracer for detecting smelting activities and its impact on environment during prehistoric period in Hexi Corridor, Northwest China
Radical change and dietary conservatism
Climatic or dietary change? Stable isotope analysis of Neolithic–Bronze Age populations from the Upper Ob and Tobol River basins
A comprehensive investigation of Bronze Age human dietary strategies from different altitudinal environments in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor
Multi-proxy investigations of Bronze Age diet and environment in the hyper-arid eastern Tarim Basin (Lop Nur), northwest China
Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang
Patterns of pastoralism in later Bronze Age Kazakhstan
Türk Khaganate
Knowledge Production, Image Networks, and the Material Significance of Feathers in Late Humanist Heidelberg
Processes of social flourishing and their liminal collapse
Agriculture in the Central Asian Bronze Age
Freshwater Reservoir Effect on Redating of Eurasian Steppe Cultures
| Obras citantes distintas | 93 |
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| Citações por ano | 5,17 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 89 |