Book of short Abstracts of the 11th International Symposium on Digital Earth

The Booklet is a collection of accepted short abstracts of the ISDE11 Symposium

The Exploration of Chu Capitals

Searching for capitals of the pre-Qin period has always been a primary goal of modern Chinese archaeology. As once the vassal state with the largest territory in the Zhou era, the Chu has constantly been the center of this topic. How did Chu capitals change during the more than eight hundred years from the state’s founding to its demise, has triggered various hypotheses and discussions among the scholars. Taking time as the central axis and being problem-oriented, this thesis explores the Chu capitals from a long-term perspective. The work mainly includes the textual research analysis of the capital’s geographic location, the study of the era and nature of the urban sites designated (or inferred) as the capital, and the detailed discussion of its spatial layout. Besides, this thesis reflected on the theoretical approaches that Chinese archaeologists used for reconstructing early dynastic history, and then proposed future improvements

ITALY-CHINA: AN ANCIENT CULTURAL HERITAGE AND THE CHALLENGE FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies

The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient economic exchange in a global perspective with a strong focus on recent debates on the nature of pre-modern empires.The interdisciplinary team of Chinese, Indian and Graeco-Roman historians, archaeologists and anthropologists that has written this handbook compares different forms of economic development in agrarian and steppe regions in a period of accelerated empire formation during 300 BCE and 300 CE. It investigates inter-imperial zones and networks of exchange which were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections.Volume I provides a comparative history of the most important empires forming in Northern Africa, Europe and Asia between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It surveys a wide range of evidence that can be brought to bear on economic development in the these empires, and takes stock of the ways academic traditions have shaped different understandings of economic and imperial development as well as Silk-Road exchange in Russia, China, India and Western Graeco-Roman history