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Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) --- Xinjiang (Chine) --- History. --- Histoire --- S17/0550 --- S25/0500 --- China: Art and archaeology--Silk route --- Xinjiang--History (Uigurs come here)

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In ancient and medieval times, the Silk Road was of great importance to the transport of peoples, goods, and ideas between the East and the West. A vast network of trade routes, it connected the diverse geographies and populations of China, the Eurasian Steppe, Central Asia, India, Western Asia, and Europe. Although its main use was for importing silk from China, traders moving in the opposite direction carried to China jewelry, glassware, and other exotic goods from the Mediterranean, jade from Khotan, and horses and furs from the nomads of the Steppe. In both directions, technology and ideologies were transmitted. The Silk Road brought together the achievements of the different peoples of Eurasia to advance the Old World as a whole.The majority of the Silk Road routes passed through the Eurasian Steppe, whose nomadic people were participants and mediators in its economic and cultural exchanges. Until now, the origins of these routes and relationships have not been examined in great detail. In The Prehistory of the Silk Road, E. E. Kuzmina, renowned Russian archaeologist, looks at the history of this crucial area before the formal establishment of Silk Road trade and diplomacy. From the late Neolithic period to the early Bronze Age, Kuzmina traces the evolution of the material culture of the Steppe and the contact between civilizations that proved critical to the development of the widespread trade that would follow, including nomadic migrations, the domestication and use of the horse and the camel, and the spread of wheeled transport.The Prehistory of the Silk Road combines detailed research in archaeology with evidence from physical anthropology, linguistics, and other fields, incorporating both primary and secondary sources from a range of languages, including a vast accumulation of Russian-language scholarship largely untapped in the West. The book is complemented by an extensive bibliography that will be of great use to scholars.

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Stunning works in precious metals, glass, and stone--many recently excavated and virtually unknown outside China--shed new light on a pivotal epoch in Chinese history. From the 4th through 7th century, monks and merchants freely traveled along the fabled Silk Road, linking China with the west, propagating Buddhism, and purveying exotic goods and artifacts that fundamentally transformed Chinese culture and society. This sumptuous volume, the first to explore the magnificent treasures and sites of China's northwest section of the Silk Road, accompanies an exhibition at the Asia Society in New York. The text by an international team of scholars illuminates the importance of the region in this period of fertile cross-cultural exchanges between Eastern and Western Asia.

China, Northwest --- Silk Road --- Antiquities --- monks --- merchants --- zijderoute --- Northwest China --- monks [people] --- S17/2125 --- S17/0550 --- China: Art and archaeology--Musea and exhibitions: USA --- China: Art and archaeology--Silk route --- China, Northwest - Antiquities --- Silk Road - Antiquities

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Manufacturing technologies --- textile materials --- Archeology --- anno 100-199 --- Antiquity --- Central Asia --- Textile fabrics --- Textiles et tissus --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Asia, Central --- Asie centrale --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- S17/0550 --- S17/1300 --- China: Art and archaeology--Silk route --- China: Art and archaeology--Textile, tapestries, embroideries, rugs, fashion --- Antiquités --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts