Title:	K obchodu na čínském severozápadě v neolitu a době bronzové
Authors:	Maršálek, Jakub
Citation:	Šašková, Kateřina ed. Orientalia antiqua nova XXII. 1. vyd. Plzeň: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2022, s. 45-64.
Issue Date:	2022
Publisher:	Západočeská univerzita
Document type:	konferenční příspěvek conferenceObject
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/11025/49683
ISBN:	978-80-261-1110-8
Keywords:	Čína;neolit;doba bronzová;obchod
Keywords in different language:	China;Neolith;Bronze Age;trade
Abstract in different language:	The northwestern China, encompassing modern provinces of Gansu and Qinghai, was in the historical periods a hub of long-distance trade connecting centers of Chinese polities with Central Asia and the Near East. The northwestern region started to fulfill this role as early as in the beginning of the Bronze Age, i. e. in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, when bronze metallurgy and new domesticates were introduced there from the west; at the same time, some prestigious artefacts originating in the complex societies of the middle Yellow River valley penetrated the region from the east. Some luxurious materials, such as turquoise and cowrie seashells are then sometimes regarded as components of the developing long-distance exchange in the east-west direction. However, it is pointed out here that appearance of these substances in the Northwest predated emergence of the East-West trade in the Early Bronze Age Period. Moreover, as the earliest finds of both the turquoise and the seashells within the Northwest concentrate in the mountain regions of the modern Qinghai Province, it is suggested that these materials were objects of exchange between the farmers settled in the central areas of the Northwest and the foragers living on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
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Appears in Collections:	Orientalia antiqua nova XXII (2022) Orientalia antiqua nova XXII (2022)

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