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This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. The Silk Road is a modern concept for an ancient network of trade routes that for centuries facilitated and intensified processes of cultural interaction and goods exchange between West China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Coherent patterns and synchronous events in history suggest possible links between social upheaval, resource utilization and climate or environment forces along the Silk Road and in a broader area. Post-graduates in studying will benefit from this work, as well as it will stimulate young researchers to further explore the role played by the environment in long-term socio-cultural changes.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Landscape Evolutions in the Human-Environment System
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Natural Disasters and Impacts in the Past Societies
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Climatic Factors in the Transitions of Social Systems
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
Editors: Liang Emlyn Yang, Hans-Rudolf Bork, Xiuqi Fang, Steffen Mischke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00727-0Published: 15 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00728-7Published: 27 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 525
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historical Geography, Archaeology, Climatology, Agriculture, History of China, History of the Middle East