Contact and exchange in the ancient world.9780824828844 Contact and exchange in the ancient world. Ed. by Victor H. Mair Victor H. Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States. . U. of Hawai'i Pr. 2006 310 pages $57.00 Hardcover Perspectives on the global past GN799 Nine papers, selected, revised, and expanded from presentation to a May 2001 conference at the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. add to the debate on whether early cultures developed in isolation or evolved through communication, trade, and technological exchange with each other. Historians, anthropologists, geologists, and other scholars consider such examples as the prehistory prehistory, period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to of Chinese relations with the West, the circulating of hunting leopards hunting leopard: see cheetah. in Eurasia between the seventh and seventeenth centuries, and biological evidence for pre-Columbian transoceanic voyages. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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