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General Asia

Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange
by Richard Foltz
Now revised and updated, this study traces the spread of religions and cultures along the trans-Eurasian trade routes over a long time frame, beginning in the eighth century BC. Indian, Iranian, Semitic and Mediterranean ideas all followed the same trajectory through central Asia to China and beyond, picking up additional elements and sometimes being radically transformed along the way. This age old pattern shows how the transmission of culture ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.99

The Silk Road in World History
by Xinru Liu
The ancient trade routes that made up the Silk Road were some of the great conduits of cultural and material exchange in world history. In this intriguing book, Xinru Liu reveals both why and how this long-distnace trade in luxury goods emerged in the late third century BCE, following its story through to the Mongol conquest. Using demand and supply as the framework for analyzing the formation and development of the Silk Road, the book examines ...
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Hardback. Price GB £47.50

The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies, Volume 1: The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia
by Adam T. Smith, Ruben S. Badalyan, and Pavel Avetisyan, with contributions by Alan Greene and Leah Minc
Until recently, the South Caucasus was a virtual /terra/ /incognita/ on Western archaeological maps of southwest Asia. The conspicuous absence of marked places, of site names, toponyms, and topography gave the impression of a region distant, unknown, and vacant. The Joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS) was founded in 1998 to explore this terrain. Our investigations ...
Hardback. Price GB £72.00

Genghis Khan
by James Chambers
A reprint for Chambers' brief, accessible, narrative of Genghis Khan's extraordinary career of brutal conquest and empire building. Its a strange account, semi-fictionalised much in the style of an ancient epic, with direct speech and assertions as to how people were feeling and so-on. There are also almost no footnotes and only ten books in the bibliography, so that whilst the book is readable enough it feels difficult to know how far to trust ...
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The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia
by Robin Dennell
Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in the search for human origins, but is no longer considered of marginal importance. Indeed, a global understanding of human origins cannot be properly understood without a detailed consideration of the largest continent. In this study, Robin Dennell examines a variety of sources, including the archaeological evidence, the fossil hominin record, and the environmental and climatic ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £33.00, Our Price GB £12.95
Hardback. Price GB £64.00

Shamanism and the Origins of States: Spirit, Power and Gender in East Asia
by Sarah Milledge Nelson
This study contends that shamanism was instrumental to processes of state formation in the Far East, and that their authority and leadership of communities on a local level wsa able to be translated onto a wider stage. The book also examines issues of gender, for the shaman was an exclusively female role. Chapters look at China, Korea and Japan from Palaeolithic to early historic times. 282p b/w illus (Left Coast Press 2008)
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Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan II: Letters and Buddist Texts
by Nicholas Sims-Williams
The second volume of Bactrian documets from Afghanistan of the 2nd to 9th cents AD. Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, which was used for administrative purposes by a succession of dynasties from the 2nd to the 9th century CE, was virtually unknown until the discovery during the 1990s of more than 150 documents written on leather, wood and cloth. In these two volumes, Nicholas Sims-Williams has for the first time deciphered and ...
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Early Landscapes of Myanmar
by Elizabeth H. Moore
This book describes the emergence of the Buddhist landscapes of Myanmar. The authoritative text is framed by the artefacts, sites and ecology of Upper and Lower Myanmar, with coverage of the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze-iron chiefdoms that preceded Hindu-Buddhist walled polities of the first millennium AD. Views and descriptions of sites, many not published in English before, include Letpanchibaw, Htaukmagon-Moegyobyin, Badigon,Tagaung, Halin, ...
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The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor volume 2: The Excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao
by Charles F.W. Higham, A. Kijngam, and S. Talbot
Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao are two large, moated prehistoric settlements in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeast Thailand. Excavations in 1997-8 revealed a cultural sequence that began in the late Bronze Age, followed by four mortuary phases covering the Iron Age. This report describes the palaeoenvironment, excavation, chronology and material culture, human remains and social structure of the prehistoric inhabitants of these two sites. It is ...
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The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Perspectives on the Steppe Nomads of the Ancient World
edited by Joan Aruz, Ann Farkas and Elisabetta Valtz Fino
This collection of essays, planned in tandem with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, focus on the spectacular finds from the village of Filippovka in the Southern Ural Steppes, including 26 gold and silver deer. The essays range wider than this though, taking in aspects of Scythian nomadic culture from China to the Caucasus, and highlighting recent archaeological excavations. 243p col and b/w illus (Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00