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008			130921t2008 xxua gr 000 0 eng d
020			_a780812240412 (hbk.)
049			_aUNISSA.
100	1		_aKuzʹmina, E. E. _q(Elena Efimovna)
245	1	4	_aThe prehistory of the Silk Road / _cE.E. Kuzmina ; edited by Victor H. Mair.
260			_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _cc2008.
300			_axii, 248 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
505			_aThe dynamics of the Eurasian steppe ecology -- 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 -- 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 -- Archaeological cultures of southern Central Asia -- Southern Turkmenistan -- The lower and middle part of Transoxiana -- Ferghana -- Kirghizstan -- 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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index.
650		0	_aBronze age _z Asia, Central.
651			_aAsia, Central _x Antiquities.
651			_aSilk Road _x Antiquities.
700	1		_aMair, Victor H., |d 1943-
997			_a1050039999-1050040000 (UNISSA, c.1-2) ; GBP42.50
999			_c12822 _d12822