Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids

For the first time a comprehensive presentation of the development of urban cultures in Central Asia from the Early Bronze Age (around 3000 BC) to the Middle Ages (about 1200 AD) is exemplarily illuminated in this book on the basis of individual research projects. The treated area extends from Turkm...

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description For the first time a comprehensive presentation of the development of urban cultures in Central Asia from the Early Bronze Age (around 3000 BC) to the Middle Ages (about 1200 AD) is exemplarily illuminated in this book on the basis of individual research projects. The treated area extends from Turkmenistan to Mongolia and was home to cultures such as the Bronze Age Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), the Sogdian of the Iron Age, the early Parthian or various early medieval ones, namely in the Zhetysu (“Seven Stream country") in the southeast of Kazakhstan. The urban civilizations that developed here were closely interrelated, on the one hand, with the cultures of the nomadic ranchers who traversed and inhabited this vast region and, on the other hand, with the more developed neighboring civilizations of the Near East and the Far East. Thus, the region became a diverse exchange zone of cultural and religious influences and also played a major role in the transmission of cultural impulses. The richly illustrated book reflects the contributions of a conference that took place in Bern in 2016 and includes 28 contributions from 50 researchers from 14 countries. The results of many of the excavations presented here will be published in English for the first time. Each article is accompanied by an extensive bibliography and a Russian abstract.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1167502024-04-02T22:13:03Z Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids Baumer, Christoph Novák, Mirko History Asian Studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history For the first time a comprehensive presentation of the development of urban cultures in Central Asia from the Early Bronze Age (around 3000 BC) to the Middle Ages (about 1200 AD) is exemplarily illuminated in this book on the basis of individual research projects. The treated area extends from Turkmenistan to Mongolia and was home to cultures such as the Bronze Age Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), the Sogdian of the Iron Age, the early Parthian or various early medieval ones, namely in the Zhetysu (“Seven Stream country") in the southeast of Kazakhstan. The urban civilizations that developed here were closely interrelated, on the one hand, with the cultures of the nomadic ranchers who traversed and inhabited this vast region and, on the other hand, with the more developed neighboring civilizations of the Near East and the Far East. Thus, the region became a diverse exchange zone of cultural and religious influences and also played a major role in the transmission of cultural impulses. The richly illustrated book reflects the contributions of a conference that took place in Bern in 2016 and includes 28 contributions from 50 researchers from 14 countries. The results of many of the excavations presented here will be published in English for the first time. Each article is accompanied by an extensive bibliography and a Russian abstract. 2023-10-05T11:12:46Z 2023-10-05T11:12:46Z 2019 book ONIX_20231005_9783447198363_2452 9783447198363 9783447111690 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116750 eng Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie image/jpeg Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvrnfq57 Harrassowitz Verlag 10.2307/j.ctvrnfq57 10.2307/j.ctvrnfq57 164b71b7-d379-4cde-a292-f4659fe1e258 9783447198363 9783447111690 open access
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Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids
title Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids
title_full Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids
title_fullStr Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids
title_full_unstemmed Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids
title_short Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids
title_sort urban cultures of central asia from the bronze age to the karakhanids
topic History
Asian Studies
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
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Asian Studies
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
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