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History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1) [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 384 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 292x246x30 mm, weight: 2060 g, 262 colour illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Nov-2012
  • Leidėjas: I.B. Tauris
  • ISBN-10: 1780760604
  • ISBN-13: 9781780760605
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 384 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 292x246x30 mm, weight: 2060 g, 262 colour illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Nov-2012
  • Leidėjas: I.B. Tauris
  • ISBN-10: 1780760604
  • ISBN-13: 9781780760605
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An illustrated history of one of the most compelling and mysterious regions on earth. It is a unique travelogue and resource and will appeal to scholars and students of antiquity, history, archaeology and religious studies. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and, the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan.

The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by color photographs taken on his own travels. For all the complexity of the history, Dr. Baumer, a noted authority on Central Asia, never loses sight of the sweeping grandeur of its overall setting. Volume 1 focuses on the geography of the area now occupied by present-day Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, northern Afghanistan, western and central Mongolia and parts of southern Russia and northern China. Discussing the changing climates of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages, the author explores subjects as diverse as glacial retreat; the invention of the wheel; the legendary Cimmerians and Amazons; Hellenism and Zoroastrianism; and the Oxus Treasure. Future volumes will explore the later historical periods of the region.

Recenzijos

The Age of the Steppe Warriors is as magnificent as it is magisterial ... the book is filled with images that are in turn fascinating, mysterious and dazzling. * The Asian Review of Books * A welcome addition to a slender regional literature. * CHOICE * This is a truly remarkable book ... It's the first of four volumes and in this - the first - the author has set himself a formidable standard. * Geographical * A gorgeous creation, with creamy paper, crisp design and perfect colour pictures ... this is more than an encyclopaedia. It's a cultural guidebook on a grand scale. * Literary Review * The book provides a superb introduction to the history of Central Asia ... a welcome addition to the growing literature on a relatively unknown part of the world until recently. * OCA Magazine *

Daugiau informacijos

The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations. This work charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and, the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan.
Introduction 1(2)
I Geography, Climate and Prehuman History of Central Asia
3(16)
1 On the definition of Central Asia
4(7)
Excursus: The dinosaur hunter Roy Chapman Andrews
8(3)
2 The interdependence of geography, climate and history
11(6)
3 The factors determining climate
17(2)
Excursus: Hominin or hominid?
17(2)
II The Settlement of Central Asia in the Palaeolithic
19(20)
1 `Out-of-Africa' or `Out-of-Asia'?
20(2)
2 The earliest settlements of Central Asia
22(6)
2.1 Neanderthals and Homo sapiens - supersession or interbreeding?
24(4)
3 The birth of art
28(7)
4 The bow - a 12,000-year-old success story
35(4)
III A Global Climatic Warming Ushers in the Mesolithic
39(10)
1 The retreat of the glaciers
40(1)
2 Petroglyphs as information sources
40(7)
Excursus: The petroglyphs of Tsagaan Salaa and Baga Oigor, Mongolia
42(5)
3 Microliths
47(2)
IV The Economic Revolution of the Neolithic
49(8)
1 The primary and secondary Neolithic revolutions
50(1)
2 Hunters and gatherers in the mountains and along the waterways of inner Central Asia
50(2)
3 Agriculture and early settlements in southern Central Asia
52(3)
4 The northern steppes of Central Asia - meeting point of hunters and herders with farmers
55(2)
V The Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age
57(44)
1 The division of early history and the beginnings of metallurgy
58(2)
2 An initial proto-urban development
60(5)
Excursus: The pioneer Raphael Pumpelly in Anau
61(4)
3 The first cities of Central Asia in southern Turkmenistan
65(13)
Excursus: The Indus Valley Civilisation, trade partner of Central Asia in the early Bronze Age
76(2)
4 Agrarian and stockbreeding cultures in northern Central Asia
78(23)
4.1 The cultures of Cucuteni-Tripolye and Usatovo
78(4)
4.2 Early stockbreeding cultures
82(2)
4.3 The emergence of horse riding
84(3)
4.4 The invention of wheel and wagon
87(5)
4.5 The culture of Maikop
92(3)
4.6 The Yamnaya-Afanasievo Cultural Complex
95(3)
4.7 Sun deities and horse sacrifices
98(3)
VI The Middle and Late Bronze Age
101(64)
1 The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex BMAC
104(18)
1.1 The BMAC Culture of Margiana
106(8)
Excursus: Lord and Mistress of animals
110(4)
1.2 The BMAC Culture of Bactria
114(8)
2 Indo-European mummies in north-western China
122(13)
2.1 The origins of metallurgy in China
122(1)
2.2 The Ayala Mazar-Xiaohe Culture
123(11)
2.3 The wheel, the horse and fertility rites
134(1)
3 The steppes of Central Asia: `origin' of the Indo-European languages?
135(2)
4 Mysterious stone steles of the Okunev Culture in Khakassia
137(2)
Excursus: Cultures of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the Minusinsk Basin
139(1)
5 From the Volga to the Yenisei: homeland of the Indo-lranians?
139(12)
5.1 Cultures west of the Urals
140(1)
5.2 Cultures east of the Urals: The Andronovo complex
141(10)
5.2.1 The culture of Sintashta - fortified circular settlements and chariot burials
141(8)
5.2.2 Alakul and Fyodorovo
149(2)
6 Karasuk and the cultures of Khirigsuurs and Slab Graves during the transition to the Iron Age
151(14)
6.1 Deer stones: flying deer as companions in the afterlife?
157(8)
VII The Iron Age
165(106)
1 Nomadic horsemen in north-eastern Central Asia
169(55)
1.1 The kurgan steppe of Minusinsk
169(3)
1.2 Herodotus's geography of Central Asian peoples
172(3)
1.3 Tuva, nucleus of the Scythian peoples and the Scytho-Siberian animal style
175(11)
Excursus: The Siberian collection of Tsar Peter the Great
180(6)
1.4 The ice kurgans of the Altai
186(9)
1.5 Stockbreeding cultures of north-eastern Kazakhstan and the western Siberian forest steppe
195(3)
1.6 Achaemenid invasions in the territory of the Saka: The beginning of a 2,500-year-long conflict between nomadic horse-riding peoples and states of settled societies
198(7)
Excursus: Zoroastrianism and its symbol, Faravahar
204(1)
1.7 Nomadic and settled cultures between the `Land of Seven Rivers' and Choresmia
205(4)
1.8 Mountain, steppe and desert stockbreeders between the Pamirs and Altyn Tagh
209(15)
1.8.1 Fergana and the Pamirs
209(2)
1.8.2 The Chinese Altai and regions north of the Tian Shan Mountains
211(5)
1.8.3 Oasis cultures south of the Tian Shan Mountains
216(8)
2 Nomadic riding peoples on the north-western periphery of Central Asia
224(47)
2.1 Cimmerians and early Scythians
224(5)
2.2 Scythians in the Kuban region
229(4)
2.3 The Pontic Scythians
233(20)
2.3.1 The Scythian pantheon
235(2)
2.3.2 War and burial customs
237(2)
Excursus: Olbia and the Bosporan Kingdom
239(5)
2.3.3 Chronology of the Scythian kings
244(5)
2.3.4 Greek influences on Scythian toreutics and grave architecture
249(4)
2.4 Sarmatians, Alans and Amazons
253(18)
2.4.1 Sauromatians and early Sarmatians between the Volga and the Ustyurt Plateau
254(2)
2.4.2 Sarmatians and Alans on the Black Sea and in the Roman Empire
256(6)
2.4.3 Military innovations
262(2)
Excursus: The Amazons - myth and reality
264(3)
2.4.4 The polychrome animal style
267(4)
VIII Greeks in Central Asia
271(32)
1 The campaign of Alexander the Great
275(8)
2 The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
283(8)
3 Bactrian art of the steppe, Hellenism and Zoroastrianism
291(12)
3.1 The golden treasure of Tillya Tepe
291(5)
3.2 Ai Khanum - a Greek city in northern Afghanistan
296(4)
Excursus: The Oxus treasure
298(2)
3.3 The Oxus temple
300(3)
IX Outlook
303(5)
Appendix The most important prehistoric and early historic cultures of Central Asia 308(3)
Notes 311(24)
Bibliography 335(20)
List of Maps 355(2)
Photo Credits 357(2)
Acknowledgements 359(2)
Index 361(1)
Concepts 361(6)
People 367(2)
Places 369
Christoph Baumer - a leading explorer and historian of Central Asia, Tibet and China - has written several well-received books in the fields of history, religion, archaeology and travel. These include The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity (2006), Traces in the Desert: Journeys of Discovery across Central Asia (2008) and China's Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism (2011), all published by I.B.Tauris. Dr Baumer is President of the Society for the Exploration of EurAsia and a member of the Explorer's Club, New York, and the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Geographical Society, London.