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Volker Thewalt <volker wrote:

 

My copy reached here today and I'm sending the table of contents.

 

Elena Efimovna Kuz'mina

edited by Victor H. Mair

 

The Prehistory of the Silk Road

University of Pennsylvania Press

2008

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Editor's Foreword

A Note on Transcription

Introduction

1. The Dynamincs of the Eurasian Steppe Ecology

 

2. Economic Developments in the Ponto-Caspian Steppe

The First Stage of the Food-Producing Economy

The Second Stage of the Food-Producing Economy

The Domestication and Early Use of the Horse

The Development of the Pit-Grave Cultural Community

The Spread of Wheeled Transport: A Prerequisite to the Opening of

the Great Silk Road Routes

 

3. The Eurasian Steppe in the Bronze Age

Proto-Urban Culture in the Urals

The Chariots of the Eurasian Steppe

The Crisis of Complex Economy, the Development of Nomadism in the

Eurasian Steppe, and the Origins of the Great Silk Road Routes

The Origin and Spread of the Bactrian Camel

 

4. Archaeological Cultures of Southern Central Asia

Southern Turkmenistan

The Lower and Middle Part of Transoxiana

Ferghana

Kirhisztan

 

5. Relations Between Eastern and Western Central Asia

Contacts of the Xinjiang People with the West in the Copper Age, and

the Tocharian Question

Contacts of the Xinjiang People with the West in the Bronze Age

Conclusion

 

Appendix. Dating and Comparative Chronologies

Maps and Illustrations

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

 

More to follow,

best

Volker

 

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Dr. Volker Thewalt

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