The Silk Roads in the Bronze Age: critical links between Eurasia and China

青铜时代的丝绸之路：欧亚大陆与中国之间的重要联系

• 批准号: DP150100121
• 负责人: Prof Alison Betts
• 金额: $ 46.61万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150100121
• 关键词: Silk; Roads; Bronze; Age; critical

The early rise of China's great civilization owed its rapid momentum to important technological innovations that were brought in from the far distant Eurasian steppes, but almost nothing is known of how or why this process took place. The project aims to explore these questions through excavations at one of China's most important Bronze Age archaeological sites in western Xinjiang. The innovations include the cultivation of wheat and barley, complex metallurgical techniques in bronze, silver and gold, the domesticated horse and the spoke-wheeled chariot, which became a universal weapon of war across the ancient world. The project aims to test theories of cultural transmission through interactive GIS modelling of environment and land use potential.

中国伟大文明的早期崛起得益于从遥远的欧亚大草原带来的重要技术创新，但人们对这一过程如何或为何发生几乎一无所知。该项目旨在通过对新疆西部中国最重要的青铜时代考古遗址之一的发掘来探索这些问题。这些创新包括小麦和大麦的种植、青铜、银和金的复杂冶金技术、驯化的马和辐轮战车，这些都成为古代世界的通用战争武器。该项目旨在通过环境和土地利用潜力的交互式 GIS 建模来测试文化传播理论。