Incipient globalization? : long-distance contacts in the sixth century / edited by Anthea Harris
- Published
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 104 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Harris, Anthea
- Series
- Contents
- Introduction / Anthea Harris -- Globalizing late antiquity: models, metaphors and the realities of long-distance trade and diplomacy / Ken Dark -- Using bracteates as evidence for long-distance contacts / Charlotte Behr -- The importance of Byzantine and Sasanian glass into China during the fourth to sixth centuries / Mei Ling Chen -- Menas ampullae: a case study of long-distance contacts / Susanne Bangert -- Ethiopian Christian material culture: the international context. Aksum, the Mediterranean and the Syriac worlds in the fifth to seventh centuries / Niall FInneran -- The limits of long-distance exchange: evidence from sixth-century Palaestina/Arabia / Kate da Costa -- 'Byzantine' and 'oriental' imports in the Merovingian Empire from the second half of the fifth to the beginnings of the eighth century / Jörg Drauschke -- Britain and China at opposite ends of the world? Archaeological methodology and long-distance contacts in the sixth century / Anthea Harris.
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- ISBN
- 9781407300788
1407300784 - Note
- "This volume comprises the publication of a one-day conference held at the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) on 19th November 2005. The conference carried the same title as this volume..."--P. 1.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20078.
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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