Altai in Ancient Southern Connections
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper was summing up around a decade (2006–2015) of own visits of Xinjiang and Northwestern China with special focus on visits of ancient sites of Indo-European and non-Indo-European populations. The paper was combining an extensive set of own photographs documenting some ancient sites including the graves of Pazyryk culture and particular localities visited in the Altai range. Accompanying comments had focus on rather long-range relations, conditions of inter-oasis contacts and principles of migrations along the rivers. Due to changing climatic conditions, shifting ethnolinguistic borders and dynamic power relations, some understudied natural passes and frontier areas like Yiwu have special importance as occasional migration routes used by both Altaic and Indo-European groups. Especially the jewelry with other archaeological data attest early exchange influencing emergence of multi-ethnic cultural complexes and population dynamics around the Altai range. |
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