Silk Road between Iran, Central Asia and Western China
The main aim of the author in this article is to emphasize how little of the “silk” product up to now was recognized and identified at the level of material culture archaeologically collected in the places and sites from the areas connected to the Road, and to highlight, on the contrary, how much a...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Archaeological Sciences Research Centre, University of Sistan and Baluchestan
2024-12-01
|
| Series: | Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://ijas.usb.ac.ir/article_9014_17224b2b15cfb34df4da8ae66dec908a.pdf |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1850149214219141120 |
|---|---|
| author | Bruno Genito |
| author_facet | Bruno Genito |
| author_sort | Bruno Genito |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The main aim of the author in this article is to emphasize how little of the “silk” product up to now was recognized and identified at the level of material culture archaeologically collected in the places and sites from the areas connected to the Road, and to highlight, on the contrary, how much a wonderful and almost untouchable imaginative and often unrealistic narrative about those routes, took over. To do this, the author necessarily starts with an outline of the historiographical concept of the Silk Road and of the way it was used in the scientific tradition.The author also deals with the term Silk Road which, as is known, then, conventionally refers to a network of trade roads across the Eurasian regions, traditionally considered linking the Chinese and Roman political-imperial formations. The study of these roads in the last century has often utilized also some other names including those of Spice Road, Incense Road, Cotton Road, Amber Road, which, in different epochs, have chronologically and geographically, partially, indicated different branches of routes, also whether in a way, to the first ones related. Any way, with the historiographic use of the term Silk Road in the 19th cent., a new era in the relations between East and West, the Roman, the Persian and Chinese empires, was definitely considered opened. Silk sooner or later became the most important commodity traded, and the western names of China were clearly related to its production which is also in details described by the author. Finally, the decline of the terrestrial Silk Road was brought about by the discovery and the adfirmation of the sea routes to and from India and China. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-8a5c4b690f70477d8ffd3c41ffafa141 |
| institution | OA Journals |
| issn | 2251-743X 2676-2919 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2024-12-01 |
| publisher | Archaeological Sciences Research Centre, University of Sistan and Baluchestan |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies |
| spelling | doaj-art-8a5c4b690f70477d8ffd3c41ffafa1412025-08-20T02:26:59ZengArchaeological Sciences Research Centre, University of Sistan and BaluchestanIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies2251-743X2676-29192024-12-01142113210.22111/ijas.2024.51033.13309014Silk Road between Iran, Central Asia and Western ChinaBruno Genito0Department of Asia, Africa and Mediterraneum, University “L’Orientale”, Napoli, Italy. ISMEO-International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, Rome, Italy.The main aim of the author in this article is to emphasize how little of the “silk” product up to now was recognized and identified at the level of material culture archaeologically collected in the places and sites from the areas connected to the Road, and to highlight, on the contrary, how much a wonderful and almost untouchable imaginative and often unrealistic narrative about those routes, took over. To do this, the author necessarily starts with an outline of the historiographical concept of the Silk Road and of the way it was used in the scientific tradition.The author also deals with the term Silk Road which, as is known, then, conventionally refers to a network of trade roads across the Eurasian regions, traditionally considered linking the Chinese and Roman political-imperial formations. The study of these roads in the last century has often utilized also some other names including those of Spice Road, Incense Road, Cotton Road, Amber Road, which, in different epochs, have chronologically and geographically, partially, indicated different branches of routes, also whether in a way, to the first ones related. Any way, with the historiographic use of the term Silk Road in the 19th cent., a new era in the relations between East and West, the Roman, the Persian and Chinese empires, was definitely considered opened. Silk sooner or later became the most important commodity traded, and the western names of China were clearly related to its production which is also in details described by the author. Finally, the decline of the terrestrial Silk Road was brought about by the discovery and the adfirmation of the sea routes to and from India and China.https://ijas.usb.ac.ir/article_9014_17224b2b15cfb34df4da8ae66dec908a.pdfhistorysilkarchaeologyroads |
| spellingShingle | Bruno Genito Silk Road between Iran, Central Asia and Western China Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies history silk archaeology roads |
| title | Silk Road between Iran, Central Asia and Western China |
| title_full | Silk Road between Iran, Central Asia and Western China |
| title_fullStr | Silk Road between Iran, Central Asia and Western China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Silk Road between Iran, Central Asia and Western China |
| title_short | Silk Road between Iran, Central Asia and Western China |
| title_sort | silk road between iran central asia and western china |
| topic | history silk archaeology roads |
| url | https://ijas.usb.ac.ir/article_9014_17224b2b15cfb34df4da8ae66dec908a.pdf |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT brunogenito silkroadbetweenirancentralasiaandwesternchina |