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On the question of silk in pre-Han Eurasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Irene Good
Irene Good*
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University Museum, 33rd & Spruce Streets, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA
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Abstract

When was silk first brought across the steppe from far China towards the European world? There is silk from the Middle Bronze Age of Uzbekistan, in Scythian burials of Siberia and among the Hallstatt grave-goods of western Europe. Teasing out the story of silk depends on identifying the textile, and distinguishing its several varieties apart.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 959 - 968
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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