The Oasis of Bukhara, Volume 1

Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution
Approx. 280 Pp., Incl. 230 Illus. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39621-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 307 mm, Gewicht: 1361 g

Reihe: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World

In The Oasis of Bukhara: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution, Rocco Rante, archaeologist at the Louvre Museum, presents the results of a large-scale and ambitious regional archaeological investigation of the oasis of Bukhara, corresponding to the delta of the Zerafshan River, from the end of the 1st millennium BCE to the Timurid period. Rante reports the conclusions of several studies of the oasis, realised with the collaboration of distinguished specialists, and covers topics such as human migration, water and the city, urban development and changes in human behaviour. He also revisits the history of this part of Central Asia, providing new historical and cultural insights arising out of the intense archaeological activities undertaken in the field.

The volume is co-published by Brill, Leiden, and the Louvre Museum, Paris.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rante, Rocco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Avant-propos

Préface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

Part 1: The Survey

1 Landscape and Human Dynamics

1 The Zerafshan Landscape and Its Evolution

2 Human Occupation from the Neolithic to Antiquity

3 The “Silk Road” in Archaeological Surveys and Historical Sources

4 The Birth of the North-eastern Route of the Silk Road

2 Settlements and Their Evolution

1 The Archaeological Survey

2 Settlement Distribution within the Oasis

3 Chronology and Evolution of Settlements

3 Morphology of Cities

1 Urban Topography

2 The Tripartite Sites

3 Urban Categories and Water Resources

4 Water Network and Tripartite Sites between Hydrological and Historical Surveys

5 The Road Network

6 The Bipartite Sites

7 Water Network and Bipartite Sites between Hydrological and Historical Surveys

8 The Road Network

9 Socio-economic Aspects

10 Urban Fortifications within the Oasis

Part 2: The Excavation

Introduction to Part 2

4 Ramitan

1 Landscape and Archaeological Vestiges

2 Earlier Works

3 Plan of the City

4 Stratigraphy

5 Evolution of the Urban Plan

6 Main Monuments

7 Fortifications

8 The Suburb (rabad)

5 Paykend

1 Landscape and Archaeological Vestiges

2 Earlier Works

3 Plan of the City

4 Stratigraphy

5 Evolution of the Urban Plan

6 Main Monuments

7 Trench E

Über Autor(innen)

Rocco Rante, Ph.D. (2009), Professional Research Fellow (2018), University Pantheon-La Sorbonne, is archaeologist at the Louvre Museum. He has published Rayy: From Its Origins to the Mongol Invasion (Leiden, 2015) and The Greater Khorasan (Berlin, 2015).