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Auteur(s) : Minardi, Michele
Titre(s) : Ancient Chorasmia [Texte imprimé] : a polity between the semi-nomadic and sedentary cultural areas of Central Asia : cultural interactions and local developments from the sixth century BC to the first century AD / Michele Minardi
Publication : Leuven : Peeters, 2015
Description matérielle : xiv, 199 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 32 cm
Collection : Acta Iranica ; 56
Lien à la collection : Acta Iranica
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-154)
Ancient Chorasmia was a polity which belonged to the Indo-Iranian cultural koine of
Central Asia. It was situated at the northern borders of these territories surrounded
by deserts, thus relatively isolated as an "oasis" during its long history. After
the pioneering work of Soviet archaeologist S.P. Tolstov and colleagues in the region
(correspondent with parts of today's Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), the polity has
been neglected and since then the idea of its cultural isolation in the frame of Central
Asian antiquity acknowledged by scholars. But the history of this ancient Persian
"nation" is a history of exchanges and interrelations, closely related with the social
and cultural development of the whole Central Asian region and of the Eurasian Steppes.
This book is centred on the study of these external relations and considers their
impact on the inner development of the polity during a time span of ca. six centuries.
The chosen timeframe corresponds with the period beginning with the emergence of true
settled civilisation in Ancient Chorasmia - with its integration in the Achaemenid
sphere of influence - and ends with the expansion of the Kushan Empire in Central
Asia - after the advance of the Hellenistic civilisation. This volume presents new
hypotheses on the historical position of Chorasmia within Central Asia, challenging
the current established chronology which needed to be revisited in the light of the
most recent scholarly and field works on the subject
Sujet(s) : Khārezm -- Antiquité
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789042931381. - ISBN 9042931388
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451816644
Notice n° :
FRBNF45181664
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