The Ancient Relations between the East and the West of the Eurasian Steppes is a collection of theses of the symposium “Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppes in Late Prehistoric times”held at Cambridge in 2000. The b...The Ancient Relations between the East and the West of the Eurasian Steppes is a collection of theses of the symposium “Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppes in Late Prehistoric times”held at Cambridge in 2000. The book researches into cultural relations in the Eurasian steppes in the light of their material culture and economic formation. The present paper makes an introduction to this work and other studies and a comparison of the economic formation in the Eurasian steppes with that in North China. The author points out that the two regions were very similar in ancient environment and economic formation, but the study of the transition from animal husbandry to nomadism in North China is weaker than that in the Eurasian steppes and should be strengthened to a great extent.展开更多
文摘The Ancient Relations between the East and the West of the Eurasian Steppes is a collection of theses of the symposium “Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppes in Late Prehistoric times”held at Cambridge in 2000. The book researches into cultural relations in the Eurasian steppes in the light of their material culture and economic formation. The present paper makes an introduction to this work and other studies and a comparison of the economic formation in the Eurasian steppes with that in North China. The author points out that the two regions were very similar in ancient environment and economic formation, but the study of the transition from animal husbandry to nomadism in North China is weaker than that in the Eurasian steppes and should be strengthened to a great extent.