Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the first Millennium CE

Editors:
Jan Bemmann & Michael Schmauder

Publisher:
Bonn : Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität

Publication Year:
2015

Table of Contents:

PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

NOMADIC EMPIRES – MODES OF ANALYSIS

NIKOLAI N. KRADIN
Nomadic Empires in Inner Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

NICOLA DI COSMO
China-Steppe Relations in Historical Perspective. . . . .. . . . . . . . 49

J. DANIEL ROGERS
Empire Dynamics and Inner Asia. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .73

CLAUDIO CIOFFI-REVILLA, WILLIAM HONEYCHURCH, J. DANIEL ROGERS
MASON 
Hierarchies: A Long-range Agent Model of Power, Conflict, and
Environment in Inner Asia . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

PAVEL E. TARASOV, MAYKE WAGNER
Environmental Aspects of Chinese Antiquity: Problems of
Interpretation and Chronological Correlation . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

XIONGNU, THE HAN EMPIRE, AND THE ORIENTAL KOINE

BRYAN K. MILLER
The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China: Navigating and Negotiating
the Middle Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

URSULA B. BROSSEDER
A Study on the Complexity and Dynamics of Interaction and Exchange in
Late Iron Age Eurasia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

MAREK JAN OLBRYCHT
Arsacid Iran and the Nomads of Central Asia – Ways of Cultural Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

INNER AND CENTRAL ASIA FROM THE TÜRKS TO THE MONGOLS

SERGEY A. VASYUTIN
The Model of the Political Transformation of the Da Liao as an Alternative
to the Evolution of the Structures of Authority in the Early Medieval Pastoral Empires of Mongolia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

MICHAEL R. DROMPP
Strategies of Cohesion and Control in the Türk and Uyghur Empires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

ÉTIENNE DE LA VAISSIÈRE
Away from the Ötüken: A Geopolitical Approach to the seventh Century
Eastern Türks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

SÖREN STARK
Luxurious Necessities: Some Observations on Foreign Commodities and Nomadic Polities in Central Asia in the sixth to ninth Centuries . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

PETER B. GOLDEN
The Turkic World in Maḥmûd al-Kâshgharî . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

THOMAS O. HÖLLMANN
On the Road again – Diplomacy and Trade from a Chinese Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

MICHAL BIRAN
The Qarakhanids’ Eastern Exchange: Preliminary Notes on the Silk Roads
in the eleventh and twelfth Centuries. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

JÜRGEN PAUL
Forces and Resources. Remarks on the Failing Regional State of
Sulṭānšāh b. Il Arslan Ḫwārazmšāh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .597

TATIANA SKRYNNIKOVA
Old-Turkish Roots of Chinggis Khan’s “Golden Clan”. Continuity of
Genesis. Typology of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

NOMADIC INTERACTION WITH THE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE WEST

MISCHA MEIER
Dealing with Non-State Societies: The failed Assassination Attempt against
Attila (449 CE) and Eastern Roman Hunnic Policy . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

TIMO STICKLER
The Gupta Empire in the Face of the Hunnic Threat. Parallels to the
Late Roman Empire? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

MICHAEL SCHMAUDER
Huns, Avars, Hungarians – Reflections on the Interaction between Steppe Empires in Southeast Europe and the Late Roman to Early Byzantine Empires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

WALTER POHL
Huns, Avars, Hungarians – Comparative Perspectives based on Written Evidence . . . . . . . . . 693

INDEX OF AUTHORS. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 703