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Tying The Threads Of Eurasia
Toby C. Wilkinson
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Description for Tying The Threads Of Eurasia
Paperback.
The famous ‘Silk Roads’ have long evoked a romantic picture of travel through colourful civilizations that connected the western and eastern poles of Eurasia, facilitating the exchange of exotic luxury goods, peoples, pathogens and ideas. But how far back can we trace such interaction? Increasing evidence suggests considerable time-depth for Trans-Eurasian exchange, with the expanding urban networks of the Bronze Age at times anticipating later caravan routes. Tying the Threads of Eurasia applies advanced GIS modelling and critical social archaeology to carefully selected material remains from these earlier connections in order to understand and explain macro-scale processes of interaction in ... Read more
The famous ‘Silk Roads’ have long evoked a romantic picture of travel through colourful civilizations that connected the western and eastern poles of Eurasia, facilitating the exchange of exotic luxury goods, peoples, pathogens and ideas. But how far back can we trace such interaction? Increasing evidence suggests considerable time-depth for Trans-Eurasian exchange, with the expanding urban networks of the Bronze Age at times anticipating later caravan routes. Tying the Threads of Eurasia applies advanced GIS modelling and critical social archaeology to carefully selected material remains from these earlier connections in order to understand and explain macro-scale processes of interaction in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Publisher
Sidestone Press
Place of Publication
Leiden, Netherlands
ISBN
9789088902444
SKU
V9789088902444
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About Toby C. Wilkinson
Toby Wilkinson is MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut Català d¬Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC), Tarragona, Spain, and previously at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Churchill College, Cambridge. His interests include spatial visualisation, macro-scale socioeconomic change, socio-technological change and cross-craft interaction and ancient technology (including textiles and metallurgy).
Reviews for Tying The Threads Of Eurasia
"This is a challenging, innovative, and, I would argue, very important book... it takes on a lot of conventional wisdom, specialists may well find ways to fault it." (On visuals in book) "... his inclusion of elegantly drawn maps, with the individually determined historical routes..." "... Wilkinson's book is a bold and sweeping call to re-think many of the traditional ... Read more