After Alexander

Central Asia before Islam

By: Georgina Herrmann (Editor), Joe Cribb (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 July 2007

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This is a new study of the history, archaeology and numismatics of Central Asia, an area of great significance for our understanding of the ancient and early medieval world. This vast, land-locked region, with its extreme continental climate, was a centre of civilization with great metropolises. Its cosmopolitan population followed different religions (Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism), and traded extensively with China, India, the Middle East, and Europe. The millennium from the overthrow of the first world empire of Achaemenian Persians by Alexander the Great to the arrival of the Arabs and Islam was a period of considerable change and conflict.
The volume focuses on recent investigations in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It provides a complex analysis of the symbiosis between the city life based on oases, and the nomadic peoples grazing their animals in the surrounding semi-deserts. Other topics include the influence of the Greek colonists on military architecture, and the major impact of the Great Kushans on the spread of Buddhism and on the development of the Central Asian metropolis. And although written documents rarely survive, coinage has provided essential evidence for the political and cultural history of the region.
These essays will be of interest to the scholar, the student, and the armchair traveller.

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...overall the project is a successful one. The contributions will be of interest to specialists and a few may serve as valuable introductions for a general audience and students. * Andrew Glass International Institute for Asian Studies *

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List of Plates	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Central Asia: West and East	p. 9
Nomad
Nomads and the Shaping of Central Asia: from the Early Iron Age to the Kushan Period	p. 29
Nomad Migration in Central Asia	p. 73
Regions and Territories in Southern Central Asia: What the Surkhan Darya Province Tells Us about Bactria	p. 99
City
Bactria, Land of a Thousand Cities	p. 121
Ai Khanum Reconstructed	p. 155
The Culture of Parthian Nisa between Steppe and Empire	p. 163
Termez in Antiquity	p. 179
The Arrangement of Buildings in the Quarters of a Sogdian City	p. 213
Invasion
Ardashir's Eastern Campaign and the Numismatic Evidence	p. 227
The Sasanian Relief at Rag-i Bibi (Northern Afghanistan)	p. 243
The Fortifications at Gobekly-depe	p. 269
The Bullae of Gobekly-depe	p. 285
Gorgan and Dehistan: the North-East Frontier of the Iranian Empire	p. 295
The Fortifications of the City of Gyaur Kala, Merv	p. 313
Money
Money as a Marker of Cultural Continuity and Change in Central Asia	p. 333
Some Questions Regarding the Numismatics of Pre-Islamic Merv	p. 377
Monetary Circulation in Ancient Tokharistan	p. 389
Money in Eastern Central Asia before AD 800	p. 399
Religion
Religious Iconography on Ancient Iranian Coins	p. 413
The Fire Temple at Tash-k'irman Tepe, Chorasmia	p. 435
A Tower of Silence of the Sasanian Period at Bandiyan: some Observations about Dakhmas in Zoroastrian Religion	p. 455
Buddhism and Features of the Buddhist Art of Bactria-Tokharistan	p. 475
Index	p. 487
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