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SUMMARY:The Rise of the Silk Roads c. 5\,000 years ago: how Earth and Mate
 rials Sciences reveal the making of the first global economic network - Mi
 ljana Radivojevic (UCL)
DTSTART:20191029T120000Z
DTEND:20191029T130000Z
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CONTACT:Oliver Shorttle
DESCRIPTION:The Eurasian Steppe has been increasingly recognised as the pl
 ace where fundamental technologies\, languages and ideas originated and sp
 read from Bronze Age onwards. The intricate system of trade networks at th
 e time paved the way for the routes that long outlived the Bronze Age worl
 d\, the Silk Roads. Of all items transported along these routes\, the exch
 ange of ores and metal objects would have been the largest in volume and t
 he most fundamentally transformative for the steppe communities. The prehi
 story of the Silk Road is therefore intimately related to that of the step
 pe metallurgy\, leading the field of study of its origins at the crossroad
 s of archaeology and materials science research. The most recent archaeome
 tallurgical studies shed new light on the origins\, scale and networks of 
 ores and metal supply long before silk was in vogue.
LOCATION:Tilley Lecture Theatre\, Department of Earth Sciences
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