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Agropastoralism and Languages Across Eurasia: Expansion, exchange, environment
Mark Hudson and Martine Robbeets
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The essays in this volume explore questions relating to human dispersals and exchange across the varied environments of Eurasia. Part One focuses on the Neolithic and how agriculture led to new adaptive niches for human societies. This process involved population and linguistic expansion, but could also be expressed through exploitation of the environment in new ways. In Part Two, the emphasis shifts to exchange between east and west across Eurasia in the Bronze Age and Middle Ages. Chapters in the book discuss topics as varied as Jōmon plant cultivation, linguistic borrowings by agropastoral groups, the spread of gold and silverwares across the steppes, and customs related to feasting in medieval northern China. The volume will be of interest to archaeologists and historical linguists alike, particularly those working on long-term social change across Eurasia.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Archaeology of East Asia
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Titles in the Archaeology of East Asia Subseries
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Of Related Interest
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Contents
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Contributors
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1. Introduction
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Part I. Agropastoralism and Expanding Human Niches
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2. The Utilisation of Domesticated Plants and Secondary Vegetation in the Japanese Islands in the Jōmon Period
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3. When Did We Choose the Way to the Anthropocene? An Examination of the Jōmon Period
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4. Prehistoric Interaction Between Transeurasian and Non-Transeurasian Speakers
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5. Ancient Agricultural Borrowings between Sino-Tibetan and Transeurasian Languages
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6. Amuric-Tungusic language contact and the Amuric homeland
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7. Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian and Na-Dene
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Part II. Eurasian East-West Exchange in the Bronze and Middle Ages
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8. By Steppe Highway or Mountain Corridors? Exploring the Archaeolinguistic Arguments for the Provenance of Western Eurasian Crops and Livestock in Central and East Asia
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9. Central-Western Asian and European Cultural Influences on Gold and Silver Wares Discovered in China on the Eurasian Steppe
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10. West Eurasian cultural impacts on the Liao dynasty: an archaeological analysis
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11. Image analysis of drinking scenes in banquet murals in Liao Dynasty tombs
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12. Rice: from medicine to food in Roman and medieval Italy
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Index
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Back Cover
Citable Link
Published: 2023
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407360768 (ebook)
- 9781407360751 (paper)
BAR Number: S3126
- Food and Drink / Diet
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic
- Art / Sculpture / Gems / Seals
- Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
- Dress / Jewellery / Personal Ornament
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Bronze Age and Iron Age