Imperial horizons of the Silk Roads : archaeological case studies / edited by Branka Franicevic and Marie Nicole Pareja.
| Other author | Franicevic, Branka, editor. |
| Other author | Pareja, Marie N. (Marie Nicole), editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | xiv, 217 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Archaeopress archaeology Archaeopress archaeology. ^A1259174 |
| Contents | Introduction / Branka Franicevic and Marie N. Pareja. Part One: Human Mobility and Migration. -- Chapter 1: Global Interfaces and the Earliest Evidence for Afro-Eurasian Exchange / Marie N. Pareja -- Chapter 2: Genomic Landscape of the Silk Roads: Have Animals Transformed the Trade Routes? / Branka Franicevic -- Chapter 3: Changing Peoples and Practices: Exploring the Role of Cross-Cultural Contact in the British Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition / Anna Bloxam -- Chapter 4: The Role of Religion in Urban Form During the 7th and 8th Centuries AD at the Extremities of the Silk Roads / Andy Hutcheson and Simon Kaner -- Chapter 5: The Period Stigma in Archaeological Studies: A Consideration of Beliefs, Customs, and the Silk Roads / Dulcie Sidney Daffodil Newbury and Karina Croucher. Part Two: Iconographic and Object-Based Inquiries -- Chapter 6: Polyvalent Goddesses from the Silk Roads / Marie N. Pareja -- Chapter 7: Interactions of Change: Pursuing Agentive Materials and Intangible Movements along the Silk Road Network / Sara Ann Knutson -- Chapter 8: Sopara Port Site Typology and the Link with Maritime Trade / Emilia Smagur, Riza Abbas, Sitaram Toraskar and Andrzej Romanowski -- Chapter 9: Wings Across the Silk Roads: The Art of the Flying Horse in Early China and Beyond / Robert A. Jones -- Chapter 10: Chinese Ceramic Exchange in the Maldives and the Indian Ocean, AD 900-1900 / Ran Zhang -- Chapter 11: Mycenaean Pottery and Pottery Technology as a Tool to Understand Social and Cultural Changes in the Ancient World / Iro' B. Camici. |
| Abstract | "This volume centres on how the exchange routes transformed the frontier regions of the Silk Road. In doing so, it utilises a range of methods to reach an archaeological interpretation of the factors that linked people with the environment; movements, settlements, and beliefs"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781803274058 |
| ISBN | 9781803274041 |
| ISBN | 1803274042 paperback |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |