Ancient Bronzes From China Ordos And The Steppes
Download Ancient Bronzes From China Ordos And The Steppes full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Ancient Bronzes From China Ordos And The Steppes ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Petya Andreeva |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2024-03-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1399528548 |
Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "e;animal style"e;, this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia. This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "e;Other"e;. In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.
| Author | : Emma C. Bunker |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0300096887 |
This fascinating book examines the artistic exchange between the nomadic peoples of what is now Inner Mongolia and their settled Chinese neighbors during the first millennium B.C.
| Author | : Jianhua Yang |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 634 |
| Release | : 2020-01-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9813291559 |
This book is one of the first to systematically explore cultural interactions between the Northern Zone of China and the Eurasian Steppe, with a focus on the formation process of the Xiongnu Confederation and the Silk Road. Combining partition and staging analyses, the authors adopt a broad perspective, viewing the Northern Zone as part of the Eurasian Steppe and combining history with culture by investigating the spread of bronze artifacts. In addition, with more than three hundred figures and color photographs, it offers readers a uniquely grand panorama of two thousand years of cultural interactions between the Northern Zone of China and the Eurasian Steppe.
| Author | : William E. Mierse |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2022-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1440858292 |
Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE. It focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which passed the major trade routes, the Silk Roads. Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road covers life along the Silk Road over 5000 years as it can be understood by considering objects. In this first object-based study to consider all of the peoples involved on the Silk Roads, objects provide the vehicles for explorations of different aspects of life for the various peoples of the Silk Roads, including the sedentary peoples who established urban life on the Silk Roads, the steppe nomads who regularly interacted with the settled peoples, and the peoples at either end of the Silk Roads who drove certain kinds of economic exchanges. The book looks at Central Asia as an international zone during ancient times when multiple religious, political, and technological ideas found acceptance in the region and allows for a better understanding of how some ideas and forms developed in Central Asia while others passed through or were modified.
| Author | : Emma C. Bunker |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 1997-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Lavishly illustrated, Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes is the first major volume devoted to the study of the art of the Northern Zone. It includes a dramatic account of the Western medical workers and teachers who first collected these works early in the twentieth century, as well as an up-to-date account of Chinese excavations in the area, based on notes by the eminent Chinese archeologist Wu En. Mr. Wu is himself descended from these peoples. Diagrams and photographs of recently opened tombs are of special interest, and full metallurgical analyses of many pieces are provided, along with an appendix of forgeries that will be of inestimable value to scholars, collectors, and dealers.
| Author | : Tina Pang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Animals in art |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : René Grousset |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 724 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780813513041 |
.While the early history of the steppe nomad is shrouded in obscurity, The Empire of the Steppes brings both the general reader and the specialist the majestic sweep, grandeur and the overriding intellectual grasp of Grousset's original. Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in French in 1939, and in English in 1970, this great work of synthesis brings before us the people of the steppes, dominated by three mighty figures--Atilla, Genghiz Khan, and Tamberlain--as they marched through ten centuries of history, from the borders of China to the frontiers of the West. The book includes nineteen maps, a comprehensive index, notes, and bibliography. The late Rene Grousset was director of the Cernuschi Museum and curator of the Muse Guimet in Paris, a member of the French Academy and author of many works on Asia Minor and the Near East.
| Author | : Gina L. Barnes |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2015-10-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1785700715 |
Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region drew on indigenous developments and exterior stimuli to produce agricultural technologies, craft production, political systems, religious outlooks and philosophies that characterize the civilization of historic and even modern East Asia. This book is a complete rewrite and update of The Rise of Civilization in East Asia, first published in 1993. It incorporates the many theoretical, technical and factual advances of the last two decades, including DNA, gender, and isotope studies, AMS radiocarbon dating and extensive excavation results. Readers of that first edition will find the same structure and topic progression. While many line drawings have been retained, new color illustrations abound. Boxes and Appendices clarify and add to the understanding of unfamiliar technologies. For those seeking more detail, the Appendices also provide case studies that take intimate looks at particular data and current research. The book is suitable for general readers, East Asian historians and students, archaeology students and professionals. Praise for The Rise of Civilization in East Asia: “… the best English introduction to the archaeology of East Asia … brilliantly integrates the three areas into a broad regional context.” Prof. Mark Hudson
| Author | : G.R. Tsetskhladze |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2021-11-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004495436 |
