Format:
225 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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28 cm
ISBN:
9782503580210
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2503580211
Series Statement:
Inner and Central Asian art and archaeology 1
Content:
Introduction.How objects tell stories : essays in honor of Emma C. Bunker /Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson --I.Objects and cultural intersection. A steppe warrior in Achaemenid employ? Grave 4.28 at Choga Mish, Khuzistan, Iran /Trudy S. Kawami --Restructuring reality : zoomorphs, from fantastic to hybrid /Annette L. Juliano --Changed strategies of interaction : exchange relations on China's northern frontier in light of the finds from Xinzhuangtou /Catrin Kost --All that glitters ... foreign jewelry in Chinese tombs : from Han into Tang /Judith A. Lerner --Guardians of the brave/keepers of the empire : horses in the Han imaginary /Katheryn M. Linduff --Gold, an exotic material in early China /Jessica Rawson --The authority of horse-rider iconography : imagery as the power of the past (the Eurasian Steppe and Yunnan in the late millennium BCE) /Karen S. Rubinson --II.Objects, technology and cross-cultural exchange.Early copper-base metals in Western Yunnan /Chiou-Peng TzeHuey --Study of tin-enriched ancient bronzes from the northern grassland of China /Han Rubin and Wang Dong-Ning --Xiongnu bronze metallurgy in the Trans-Baikal area /Sergey Miniaev --The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), the Seima-Turbino horizon and a possible eastward transmission of tin-bronze technology in later third and early second millennium BCE inner Asia /Vincent C. Pigott --Bunker publications.
Content:
Inner and Central Asian Art and Archaeology is a new series launched providing a major forum for discussion and publication of current international research projects and fieldwork concerning the art and archaeology of Central and Inner Asia. Uniquely the series covers the vast regions flanking the ancient Silk Roads from the Iranian world to western China and from the Russian steppes to north-western India. The series mainly focuses on the pre-Islamic period of art and archaeology of Inner Asia. Related scholarly articles on language and history are also published
Note:
"Produced under the aegis of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University by Brepols Publishers."
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Includes bibliographical references
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Festschrift
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