The prehistory of the Silk Road

• Verfasst von: Kuzʹmina, Elena E.
• Verfasst von: Kuzʹmina, Elena Efimovna
• Titel: The prehistory of the Silk Road
• Mitwirkende: Mair, Victor H.
• Verf.angabe: E. E. Kuzmina. Ed. by Victor H. Mair
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Jahr: 2008
• Umfang: XII, 248 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Encounters with Asia
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index
• ISBN: 0-8122-4041-3
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4041-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Seidenstraße / (s)Entstehung / (z)Geschichte 3000 v. Chr.-1000 v. Chr.
• Schlagwörter: (g)Eurasien / (g)Zentralasien / (g)Mittelasien / (s)Kulturkontakt / (z)Geschichte 3000 v. Chr.-1000 v. Chr.
• Sprache: eng
• Sonstige Nr.: Identnummer: 2007023278
• RVK-Notation: NF 8640
• K10plus-PPN: 531722163

Abstract

The dynamics of the Eurasian steppe ecology -- Economic developments in the Ponto-Caspian steppe -- The first stage of the food-producing economy -- The second stage of the food-producing economy -- The domestication and early use of the horse -- The development of the pit-grave cultural community -- The spread of wheeled transport: a prerequisite to the opening of the Great Silk Road routes -- The Eurasian steppe in the Bronze Age -- Proto-urban culture in the Urals -- The chariots of the Eurasian steppe -- The crisis of complex economy, the development of nomadism in the Eurasian steppe, and the origins of the Great Silk Road routes -- The origin and spread of the Bactrian camel -- Archaeological cultures of southern Central Asia -- Southern Turkmenistan -- The lower and middle part of Transoxiana -- Ferghana -- Kirghizstan -- Relations between eastern and western Central Asia -- Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Copper Age, and the Tocharian question -- Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Bronze Age