By Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran

The interplay among the Eurasian pastoralnomads - so much famously the Mongols and Turks -and the encircling sedentary societies is an immense subject in global heritage. Nomads weren't in simple terms raiders and conquerors, but additionally transmitted commodities, rules, applied sciences and different cultural goods. whilst, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such points as faith, expertise, and political tradition. The essays during this quantity use a vast comparative technique that highlights the multifarious nature of nomadic society and its altering family members with the sedentary international within the neighborhood of China, Russia and the center East, from antiquity into the modern international.

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Manz, “Tamerlane’s Career and its Uses,” Journal of World History, 13 (2002), pp. 1–25; Almaz Khan, “Chinggis Khan: From Imperial Ancestor to Ethnic Hero,” in Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers, ed. S. Harrel (Seatle and London, 1995), pp. 248–77. introduction Map 1. Eurasia 12 PART I EARLY CONTACTS EARLY PASTORAL SOCIETIES OF NORTHEAST CHINA: LOCAL CHANGE AND INTERREGIONAL INTERACTION DURING C. 1100–600 BCE1 Gideon Shelach This paper focuses on the earliest pastoral societies of northeast China and on their interactions with sedentary and nomadic societies.

In large sites the defense system is usually made up of two such walls separated by a ditch and sometimes reinforced with semi-circular “watch towers” (Fig. 2) (Shelach 1999; Xu 1986). In lower Xiajiadian sites which have such defense systems, houses are usually located within the walls, but their organization within these sites or in the open sites is not yet clear. Lower Xiajiadian houses are in most cases Fig. 2. Stone wall and structures at the Lower Xiajiadian site of Xindian, Chifeng area, Inner Mongolia (after Xu 1986:83).

12). While most of these bronzes are accidental finds or found in caches without any archaeological context (Lin 1986; Guo 1995a; Wu 1985), a few excavated bronzes as well as “northern-type” bronzes found at the Shang dynasty site of Yinxu (Anyang) date this group to the second half of the second millennium BCE (Guo 1995a; Wu 1985). One possible early assemblage of northern bronzes found in an archaeological context was excavated from a tomb, dated to the Late Shang or Early Zhou, at the Changping Baifu site near present day Beijing (Beijing 1976).

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