
Tying the Threads of Eurasia
Trans-regional Routes and Material Flows in Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia and western Central Asia, c.3000-1500BC
Toby C. Wilkinson(Author)
Sidestone Press
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-90-8890-244-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 the wider ancient Near East between 3000 and 1500BC. Evidence related to precious stone, metal and textile objects found in Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia and Central Asia are examined critically and spatially to provide new insights into changing socio-economic relations within and beyond these case-study regions.
This book will be of interest to archaeologists and historians researching routes of exchange and interaction, macro-scale historical change or GIS approaches to archaeology, and to specialists of the Bronze Age Near East, especially Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Iran.
This book will be of interest to archaeologists and historians researching routes of exchange and interaction, macro-scale historical change or GIS approaches to archaeology, and to specialists of the Bronze Age Near East, especially Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Iran.
Reviews / Votes
"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 approaches to analyzing Eurasian exchange..." "Wilkinson does an excellent job of explaining concepts and delineating exactly how much or how little can reasonably be concluded from his evidence." -- Antiquity AntiquityMore details
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
200+ full colour
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1114 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8890-244-4 (9789088902444)
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Person
Toby Wilkinson is MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut Catala d?Arqueologia Classica (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).