The Interaction of Aesthetics and Technology between East and West, from the Perspective of Glass Beads from Xinjiang, China

Summary

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.

Xinjiang is located in the crossroads of the Silk Road and connected the Central Asia, South Asia and central China. During the 2nd to 1st millennia BC, glass beads were transferred from the West Asia and South Asia to central China through the Tianshan corridor and southern edge oasis corridor of the Taklimakan Desert. However, central China glass beads had also spread west since the late 1st millennium BC. These glass beads present diverse appearance and manufacture processes in most sites of Xinjiang. The diversity of the aesthetics and technology of the glass beads reflect cultural communication across the Eurasian continent. This paper will discuss the interaction of material culture based on chemical composition and manufacturing technique analysis for glass beads.

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): 23956