From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Trans-Regional Movements of Artifacts, Cereal Crops and Animals

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This is an abstract from the "From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Scholarly interest has been growing in an episode of trans-Eurasian exchange of agricultural systems and tangible material goods in late prehistory. The trans-regional movement of a number of artifacts, cereal crops and animals occurred within a series of transformative process that brought together previously isolated communities across Eurasia, to constitute a new kind of network. This process was at its height during the second/first millennium BC. Much has been discussed relating to the timing and routes of those movements. In this presentation, we focus on the context. In particular, what were the intangible ideas that might be associated with the movement of tangible things in archaeological evidence. Why was a certain type of technology or idea welcomed in one part of the world but rejected from another?

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23868