LEADER 00000cam a2200385 a 4500 001 14882624 005 20080707075218.0 008 070607s2008 pauab b 001 0 eng 010 2007023278 015 GBA773022|2bnb 016 7 013888734|2Uk 020 9780812240412 035 (OCoLC)ocn141483910 035 (OCoLC)141483910 040 DLC|cDLC|dBAKER|dBTCTA|dUKM|dC#P|dYDXCP|dDLC 041 1 eng|hrus 043 ac----- 050 00 DS328|b.K89 2008 082 00 939/.6|222 100 1 Kuzʹmina, E. E.|q(Elena Efimovna) 245 14 The prehistory of the Silk Road /|cE.E. Kuzmina ; edited by Victor H. Mair. 260 Philadelphia :|bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,|cc2008. 300 xii, 248 p. :|bill., maps ;|c24 cm. 440 0 Encounters with Asia 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index. 505 0 The dynamics of the Eurasian steppe ecology -- Economic developments in the Ponto-Caspian steppe -- The first stage of the food-producing economy -- The second stage of the food-producing economy -- The domestication and early use of the horse -- The development of the pit-grave cultural community -- The spread of wheeled transport: a prerequisite to the opening of the Great Silk Road routes -- The Eurasian steppe in the Bronze Age -- Proto-urban culture in the Urals -- The chariots of the Eurasian steppe -- The crisis of complex economy, the development of nomadism in the Eurasian steppe, and the origins of the Great Silk Road routes -- The origin and spread of the Bactrian camel -- Archaeological cultures of southern Central Asia -- Southern Turkmenistan -- The lower and middle part of Transoxiana -- Ferghana -- Kirghizstan -- Relations between eastern and western Central Asia -- Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Copper Age, and the Tocharian question -- Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Bronze Age. 650 0 Bronze age|zAsia, Central. 651 0 Asia, Central|xAntiquities. 651 0 Silk Road|xAntiquities. 700 1 Mair, Victor H.,|d1943- 856 41 |3Table of contents only|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ ecip0719/2007023278.html
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