Reconfiguring the Silk Road : new research on east-west exchange in antiquity ; the papers of a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology March 19, 2011 PDF
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RECONFIGURING THE SILK ROAD New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity RECONFIGURING THE SILK ROAD New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity The Papers of a Symposium Held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology March 19, 2011 Edited by Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology philadelphia © 2014 University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324 Published for the University of Pennsylvania Museum by the University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Published 2014. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN-13: 978-1-934536-68-1 ISBN-10: 1-934536-68-7 The conference Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity, held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on March 19, 2011, was made possible by grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Ancient Studies. The publication of the proceedings was funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The camel logo used throughout the book was drawn by Kevin Schott. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. CONTENTS List of Figures vii Contributors ix Foreword: The Silk Roads before Silk, Colin Renfrew xi Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Silk Roads, Victor H. Mair 1 Chapter 1: At the Limits: Long-Distance Trade in the Time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kings, J.G. Manning 5 Chapter 2: The Silk Road in Late Antiquity, Peter Brown 15 Chapter 3: The Northern Cemetery: Epigone or Progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5?, Victor H. Mair 23 Chapter 4: More Light on the Xinjiang Textiles, Elizabeth Wayland Barber 33 Chapter 5: Seeds for the Soul: Ideology and Diffusion of Domesticated Grains across Inner Asia, Michael D. Frachetti 41 Chapter 6: Horseback Riding and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes, David W. Anthony and Dorcas R. Brown 55 Chapter 7: Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe, J.P. Mallory 73 Chapter 8: Concluding Comments: Reconfiguring the Silk Road, or When Does the Silk Road Emerge and How Does It Qualitatively Change over Time? Philip L. Kohl 89 Index 95 FIGURES (The color insert appears after page 32) 1.1 Map with sites discussed in the text color insert 1.2 Timeline: major ruling groups broken down by geographical areas color insert 1.3 Chart: prehistoric periods discussed in the text xv 1.4 Participants in the Penn Museum Silk Road Symposium xvi 3.1 Map of Xinjiang archaeological sites 24 3.2 Wooden posts from the Northern Cemetery color insert 3.3 Mummy wearing a felt cap color insert 3.4 Woven basket color insert 3.5 Wooden figurine color insert 3.6 Boots worn by mummy color insert 3.7 Mummies from the Northern Cemetery color insert 4.1 Woolen cloak or blanket color insert 4.2 Wool blanket-wrap color insert 4.3 Wood figurine of a child color insert 4.4 Felt hats color insert 4.5 The Beauty of Xiaohe color insert 4.6 Early Central Asian loom 35 4.7 Infant mummy color insert 4.8 Horsemen with shabraks color insert 4.9 Common knots used in Eurasian carpets 36 4.10 Tapestry boots color insert 4.11 Tapestry bag color insert 4.12 Garments of a warrior color insert 4.13 Male and female burial color insert 4.14 Garments of Yingpan Man color insert 4.15 A and B: Obverse and reverse sides of fabric color insert 4.16 Yingpan Man’s trousers color insert 4.17 Yingpan Man’s robe color insert 5.1 Central Eurasia map color insert 5.2 Drawing of burial cist with adjacent evidence of charcoal 44 5.3 Xiaohe coffin burial color insert 5.4 2005 Excavation at Begash color insert 5.5 Dzhungar Mountains color insert 6.1 Eurasian steppes topographical map color insert 6.2 Chart showing percentages of animal bones at selected sites through time color insert 6.3 Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope averages for 59 individuals color insert 7.1 Map of the European steppelands at the beginning of the Neolithic 76 7.2 Map of the European steppelands in the Eneolithic 79 7.3 Map of the European steppelands in the Eneolithic showing the general location of horse-head sceptres 82 viii CONTRIBUTORS DAVID W. ANTHONY Professor of Anthropology and Anthropology Curator of the Yager Museum of Art & Culture Hartwick College Oneonta, NY ELIZABETH WAYLAND BARBER Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Linguistics Occidental College Los Angeles, CA PETER BROWN Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History and Director, Program in Hellenic Studies Princeton University Princeton, NJ DORCAS R. BROWN Research Associate Hartwick College Oneonta, NY MICHAEL D. FRACHETTI Associate Professor Department of Anthropology Washington University St. Louis, MO JANE HICKMAN Editor, Expedition Magazine Special Assistant for Museum Programs University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia, PA PHILIP L. KOHL Professor of Anthropology and the Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Slavic Studies Wellesley College Wellesley, MA
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