Tying the Threads of Eurasia Trans-regional Routes and Material Flows in Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia and western Central Asia, c.3000-1500BC

• Main Author: Wilkinson, Toby C. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2014
• Subjects: Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; archaeology; world-archaeology; prehistory; Asia; Europe; traderoutes
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The famous 'Silk Roads' have long evoked a romantic picture of travel through colourful civilizations that connected the western and eastern poles of Eurasia, facilitating the exchange of exotic luxury goods, peoples, pathogens and ideas. But how far back can we trace such interaction? Inc...