"Civilization, Ancient." . . "Échange, Théorie de l' (Économie politique) Eurasie Études transculturelles." . . "Exchange Eurasia Cross-cultural studies." . . "Handel" . . "Commercio - Preistoria - Congressi - Philadelphia, Pa. - 2001." . . "Eurasia - Storia - Antichità - Congressi - Philadelphia, Pa. - 2001." . . "Kulturkontakt Eurasien Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte Kongress (Philadelphia, 2001)" . . "Eurasien" . . "Eurasien." . "Commerce, Prehistoric." . . "Commerce préhistorique Eurasie." . . "Local exchange trading systems Eurasia Cross-cultural studies." . . "Échange Eurasie Antiquité Études transculturelles." . . "Eurasien" . . "Civilisation ancienne." . . "Kulturkontakt." . . "Formation transculturelle Eurasie Histoire." . . "Vor- und Frühgeschichte." . . "Cross-cultural orientation Eurasia History." . . "Interkulturel kommunikation" . . "Commerce préhistorique." . . "Historie" . . . . "Civilisation antique." . . "Systèmes d'échanges locaux Eurasie Études transculturelles." . . . . . . . . . . "Cross-cultural studies" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "History" . . "Contact and exchange in the Ancient World" . . . . . . "Contact and exchange in the ancient world" . . . . . . "Aufsatzsammlung" . "Do civilizations independently invent themselves or are they the result of cultural diffusion? The contributors to this volume do not attempt to provide a definitive answer to this contentious question, one of the most debated issues of the past century. Instead, they shift the focus from theory to reality by presenting empirical evidence on a wide range of cultural phenomena in history and prehistory, thereby demonstrating the processes whereby cultural traits are acquired and modified -- the dynamics of transmission and transformation. The range of topics covered in this volume is of extraordinary breadth: the distribution of belt hooks and belts from the steppes to North and Central China; textile exchange in the third millennium B.C.; the spread of bronze metallurgy across Asia; the adaptation of complicated technologies by distant peoples; the mechanisms whereby bronze implements were used to convey political messages in East Asia; the ethnogenesis of the Turks; the complex interrelationships among migratory and settled peoples in western Central Asia during the Bronze Age; the origins of the enigmatic Chinese goddess known as Queen Mother of the West; an account of hunting with trained cheetahs; and the use of abundant botanical and zoological evidence to affirm that the Old World and the New World must have been in contact long before the fifteenth century. Rounding out the volume is a survey of the problem of modernocentrism. -- Publisher description from http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu (Oct. 25, 2011)." . . . . . "commerce Eurasie Antiquité [congrès]" . . "échange culturel Eurasie Antiquité [congrès]" . . "Systèmes d'échanges locaux Eurasie Antiquité Études transculturelles." . .