1st Edition
Caravans in Global Perspective Contexts and Boundaries
This book provides a fresh and unique global perspective on the study of caravans by bringing together a wealth of up-to-date research that explores the similarities and divergences of caravan lifeways in Africa, Eurasia, the Near East, Southwest Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. The volume presents theoretical frameworks for caravan assessment and intercultural caravan crossings, pushing the boundaries of caravan route history and archaeology to consider the emergence, evolution, maintenance, and adaptations of caravans. Drawing from anthropological, archaeological, historical, geographical, economic, social, political, and art historical perspectives, the volume will be attractive to scholars of these disciplines and beyond who are interested in social issues embedded on trade, travel, and nomadism.
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Editorial Introduction
Calogero M. Santoro and Persis B. Clarkson
1. Early Modern Caravan Networks in Afghanistan: A View From Above
Kate Franklin Emily Boak
2. Travel Times Versus Transport Costs on Maya Rivers
Ronald Canter
3. Assessing Human Mobility and Dietary Patterns in the Atacama Desert Using Stable
Isotopes: The Tarapacá Case (AD 900-1450)
Francisca Santana-Sagredo, Julia Lee-Thorp, Rick Schulting, Mauricio Uribe, and Chris Harrod
4. Historic Caravans in Tanzania: Toward Reinvigorating Multidiscipliary Exploration
Thomas John Biginagwa
5. From Northwest Argentina to the Atacama Desert: Circulation, Goods, and Value (900 BC – AD 400)
Francisco Gallardo, Benjamín Ballester, Gloria Cabello, Carole Sinclaire, Itaci Correa, Gonzalo Pimentel, and Estefanía Vidal
6. Wari State Control of Camelid Caravan Traffic Between the Coast and Highlands of the Southern Nasca Region, Peru
Matthew J. Edwards
7. Caravans and Long Distance Trade in Roman Egypt
Matt Gibbs
8. The Overland "Great Silk Road": Myths and Realities (A Politically Incorrect Paper on a Politically Correct Subject)
Anatoly M. Khazanov
9. Birth and Growth of Medieval Trans-Saharan Trade in West Africa: The Example of the Caravan City of Sijilmasa (Morocco)
Chloé Capel
10. Caravanner and Herder-Horticulturalist Connections on an Atacama Desert Trafficking Route AD 950-1450
José Berenguer
11. Maritime Trails: The Sea Route from the Mediterranean to China in Precolonial Times
John Miksic
12. Neither Caravanners Nor Herders: Participation by The Coastal and Lowland Peoples in the Caravan Network of the Northern Atacama Desert, Chile, AD 1000-1535
Daniela Valenzuela, Bárbara Cases, Calogero M. Santoro, Paola Leiva, Persis B. Clarkson, Francisca Urrutia, and Adrian Oyaneder
13. Human Caravans of Mesoamerica
Persis B. Clarkson and William R. Fowler
Biography
Persis B. Clarkson’s archaeological research spans the western deserts of the Americas, the tropical forests of Mesoamerica, and the boreal forests of Canada. She teaches anthropology at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, and is a temporary but keenly observant inhabitant of the Atacama Desert.
Calogero M. Santoro lives at the Instituto de Alta Investigación at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Arica, Chile, where multidisciplinary research ranges through socialcultural changes and climate variability from the Pleistocene to the present in hyperarid environments.
