Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Volume 1: Contexts

774 Pages·2019·14.216 MB·English

by  Sitta Reden

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HandbookofAncientAfro-EurasianEconomies
Volume1:Contexts

Handbook of Ancient
Afro-Eurasian
Economies
Volume 1: Contexts
Edited by
Sitta von Reden
In cooperation with
Mamta Dwivedi, Lara Fabian, Kathrin Leese-Messing,
Lauren Morris, and Eli J. S. Weaverdyck
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Acknowledgements
This handbook is based on the interdisciplinary research project “Beyond the Silk
Road: Economic Development, Frontier-Zones, and Inter-Imperiality in the Afro-
EurasianWeorldRegion(300to300),”andmadepossiblethroughtheaward
of an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council from 2017 to 2022 (ERC-
ADG 742645). Further particulars about our research can be found on our website
www.basar.uni-freiburg.de. We wish to thank the European Research Council and
theanonymousreadersoftheproposalfortheirfinancialsupportandhelpfulcom-
ments. We are also grateful to our scientific advisors, Anthony Barbieri-Low, Peter
Eich, Enno Giele, Herrmann Kulke, Rachel Mairs, Bryan Miller, Richard Payne, Hi-
manshuPrahbaRay,ArminSelbitschka,MichaelSpeidel,SoerenStark,MiguelJohn
Versluys,andJosefWiesehöfer,fortheiradviceandencouragementespeciallydur-
ingtheearlystagesofthisproject.
AttheUniversityofFreiburgwebenefittedfromthehelpandexpertiseofMarco
FerrarioandMilinda Hoo,whilePeterPalm,Berlin, drewallthemaps forthisvol-
ume.SpecialthanksgotoAlisonWeaverdyckwhocorrectedtheEnglishofthenon-
native speakers, and to Mark Marsh-Hunn who added last-minute support. Clara
Hillebrechthasbeenourincessantassistantduringtheentireperiodofresearchfor
thefirstvolume,whileshe,BenedictLerbs,andStephanNeitmannhavehelpedto
prepare the manuscriptfor publication. Last but not leastwe thank Florian Hoppe
atdeGruyterPressforsuggestingandencouragingthepublicationoftheresultsof
this project in the form of a handbook, and for his patient advice in any editorial
matter.
MamtaDwivedi
LaraFabian
TsangWingMa
KathrinLeese-Messing
LaurenMorris
SittavonReden
EliWeaverdyck
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Contents
Acknowledgements v
ListofContributors xi
TransliterationandOrthography xiii
Abbreviations xv
SittavonReden
Introduction:AncientEconomiesandGlobalConnections 1
Part I: Empires
SittavonReden
Introduction 13
SittavonReden
1 TheHellenisticEmpires 15
LaurenMorris
2 CentralAsianEmpires 53
MamtaDwivedi
3 EarlyHistoricSouthAsia 95
KathrinLeese-Messing
4 TheQinandHanEmpires 129
UrsulaBrosseder
5 TheXiongnuEmpire 195
LaraFabian
6 TheArsakidEmpire 205
EliJ.S.Weaverdyck
7 TheRomanEmpire 241
viii Contents
Part II: Evidence
SittavonReden
Introduction 307
8 Graeco-RomanEvidence 311
EliJ.S.Weaverdyck
8.A MaterialEvidence 311
EliJ.S.Weaverdyck
8.B TransmittedTexts 343
SittavonReden
8.C DocumentarySources 357
LaurenMorris
9 EvidenceforCentralAsia 381
10 EvidenceforEarlySouthAsia 423
MamtaDwivedi
10.A IndicSources 423
SittavonReden
10.B Graeco-RomanIndography 469
JosefWiesehöfer
11 EvidenceforArsakidEconomicHistory 477
12 QinandHanEvidence 497
KathrinLeese-Messing
12.A TransmittedTexts 497
TsangWingMa
12.B ExcavatedTexts 529
KathrinLeese-Messing
12.C MaterialEvidence:Lacquerware 557
Contents ix
Part III: Historiographies
LaraFabian
Introduction 577
LaraFabian
13 RussianPerspectivesonEurasianPasts 581
TsangWingMa
14 TheQinandHanEconomiesinModernChineseandJapanese
Historiographies 619
MamtaDwivedi
15 TrendsinEconomicHistoryWritingofEarlySouthAsia 641
LaurenMorris
16 ConstructingAncientCentralAsia’sEconomicHistory 669
SittavonRedenandMichaelSpeidel
17 Economy,Frontiers,andtheSilkRoadinWesternHistoriographies
ofGraeco-RomanAntiquity 693
Index 729