Archaeology of Eurasia
10 Year Anniversary of "The Balkans in Later Prehistory" by Lolita Nikolova with
contributions of Cristian Schuster and Igor Manzura. BAR International Series 791.
BAR. Oxford. 1999.
Publication details at http://library.plymouth.edu/read/340023
Review at  http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14383.html
Abstract of an article by E.E. Kuzmina  "The prehistory of the
silk road : Contacts between the population of Eurasian
steppes and Xinjiang in the Bronze Age" (in Venstnik drevnej
istorii (No. 1, 1999)
at http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2023913


Foltz, Richard C. Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade
and Cultural Exchange From Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999
E.E.Kuzmina. The Prehistory of the Silk Road, edited by Victor H. Mair
Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007

Contents

The dynamics of the Eurasian steppe ecology
Economic developments in the Ponto-Caspian steppe
The first stage of the food-producing economy
The second stage of the food-producing economy
The domestication and early use of the horse
The development of the pit-grave cultural community
The spread of wheeled transport: a prerequisite to the opening of the Great Silk
Road routes
The Eurasian steppe in the Bronze Age
Proto-urban culture in the Urals
The chariots of the Eurasian steppe
The crisis of complex economy, the development of nomadism in the Eurasian
steppe, and the origins of the Great Silk Road routes
The origin and spread of the Bactrian camel
Archaeological cultures of southern Central Asia
Southern Turkmenistan
The lower and middle part of Transoxiana
Ferghana
Kirghizstan
Relations between eastern and western Central Asia
Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Copper Age, and the
Tocharian question
Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Bronze Age
The Eurasian Silk Road: References and links
New Silk Road:
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies at
http://www.isdp.eu/cacisrsp
Book: The New Silk Roads. Transport and Trade in Greater
Central Asia (2007)
Details about the publication and free .pdf files at
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/GCA.htm
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Silk Road and tourism:
http://eurasia2005.blogspot.com/2005/09/urumchi-almaty.html