UID:
kobvindex_HPB1156976923
Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 525 pages) :
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illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
ISBN:
3030007286
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9783030007287
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9783030007294
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3030007294
Content:
This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. The Silk Road is a modern concept for an ancient network of trade routes that for centuries facilitated and intensified processes of cultural interaction and goods exchange between West China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Coherent patterns and synchronous events in history suggest possible links between social upheaval, resource utilization and climate or environment forces along the Silk Road and in a broader area. Post-graduates in studying will benefit from this work, as well as it will stimulate young researchers to further explore the role played by the environment in long-term socio-cultural changes.
Note:
Foreword 1 -- Foreword 2 -- Foreword 3 -- Acknowledgement -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Landscape evolutions in the human-environment system -- Part III. Natural disasters and impacts on the past societies -- Part IV. Climatic factors in the transitions of social systems -- Part V. Social adaptation and resilience to environmental stresses -- Part VI. Social-culture in connection with the environment.
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On the paleo-climatic/environmental impacts and socio-cultural system resilience along the historical Silk Road /
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Landscape evolutions in the human-environment system.
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Evolution of saline lakes in the Guanzhong Basin during the past 2000 years : inferred from historical records /
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Landscape response to climate and human impact in western China during the Han dynasty /
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The Ili River Delta : Holocene hydrogeological evolution and human colonization /
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Quantitative evaluation of the impact on Aral Sea levels by anthropogenic water withdrawal and Syr Darya course diversion during the Medieval Period (1.0-0.8 ka BP) /
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Reconsidering archaeological and environmental proxies for long term human-environment interactions in the Valley of Kashmir /
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Natural disasters and impacts in the past societies.
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Living with earthquakes along the Silk Road /
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Natural disasters in the history of the eastern Turk Empire /
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Dry and humid periods reconstructed from tree rings in the former territory of Sogdiana (Central Asia) and their socio-economic consequences over the last millennium /
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A drought reconstruction from the low-elevation juniper forest of northwestern Kyrgyzstan since CE 1565 /
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Climatic factors in the transitions of social systems.
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Social impacts of climate change in historical China /
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Climate change and the rise of the Central Asian Silk Roads /
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The coming of the barbarians : can climate explain the Saljūqs' advance? /
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Climate change and the rise and fall of the Oxus civilization in southern Central Asia /
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Climatic and environmental limiting factors in the Mongol Empire's westward expansion : exploring causes for the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 /
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Social adaptation and resilience to environmental stresses.
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Resilience of the human-water system at the southern Silk Road : a case study of the northern catchment of Erhai Lake, China (1382-1912) /
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The age and origin of Karez systems of Silk Road oases around Turpan, Xinjiang, P.R. of China /
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Water supply and ancient society in the Lake Balkhash Basin : runoff variability along the historical Silk Road /
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Demographic changes, trade routes, and the formation of anthropogenic landscapes in the middle Volga region in the past 2500 years /
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Social-culture in connection with the environment.
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Routes beyond Gandhara : Buddhist rock carvings in the context of the early Silk Roads /
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Steppe and sown : Eurasianism, soil and the mapping of Bukhara in the light of Soviet ethnographic accounts /
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A Karez system's dilemma : a cultural heritage on a shelf or still a viable technique for water resiliency in arid regions /
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7.
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
URL:
https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7
URL:
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030007270
URL:
University of Alberta Access
((Unlimited Concurrent Users))
URL:
Free Access
(from Directory of Open Access Books)
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