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20 Ott 2025 11:00

Traveling the prehistoric Silk Roads

Aula B, Ca' Bottacin

Traveling the prehistoric Silk Roads

Environments, Societies and Histories of East Asia Lecture Series

Central Asia is one of the most ecologically and culturally diverse regions in the world; it fostered the rise of several of the greatest empires and the most expansive trade networks of antiquity. Despite the important role this region played in shaping world history and the formation of global cultures, it has lagged behind the rest of Eurasia in archaeological investigations. Given the state of archaeological inquiry, there has been considerable room for interpretation, supporting narratives of vast highways of grass and warrior nomads. However, over the past two decades, the infiltration of the archaeological sciences into Central Asian archaeology has led to a rewriting of the prehistory of this vast region. Some of the most important revisions include a clearer recognition of the original spread of farming into the region and the more prominent role of agriculture in cultural developments. Archaeologists are demonstrating that the mountainous regions of Inner Asia served as a corridor of diffusion, permitting ideas, technology, genes, and domesticated organisms to funnel between East and West Asia. Rewriting the story of ancient people in Central Asia is illuminating the human story more broadly.

Speaker: Robert Spengler - Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

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