Name: Domesticated. How Cultivated Species Altered Ancient Silk Road Societies
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Author: Alicia R. (Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Director of the Ancient Protein a
ISBN: 9780197785942

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Domesticated. How Cultivated Species Altered Ancient Silk Road Societies

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Author

Alicia R. (Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Director of the Ancient Protein a

Year

2026

Pages

296

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.50 x 15.60 cm

ISBN13

9780197785942

Domesticated. How Cultivated Species Altered Ancient Silk Road Societies

Alicia R. (Assistant Professor In The Department Of Anthropology, Director Of The Ancient Protein A (Author) · Oxford University Press Inc · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Domesticated. How Cultivated Species Altered Ancient Silk Road Societies"

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Domesticated uses novel archaeological methods to rewrite the narrative of the rise of social complexity in the western and eastern Eurasian steppe. Through the study of ancient proteins, DNA, and isotopes, as well as traditional archaeology, Alicia R. Ventresca-Miller tracks the adoption of domesticated animals and plants to show how cultivated species transformed societies during the eras preceding the Silk Road networks. Economies in this region shifted from hunting and gathering to the use of ruminant livestock, horse dairying and riding, and finally to the cultivation of grains, marking major thresholds in human history. Ventresca-Miller proposes a model for how this happened--from the initial introduction of the animal or plant to their acceptance, solidification, and intensification--and shows how each stage of development impacted the ways local communities interacted, settled in the landscape, and gave rise to new social structures. The management of domesticated species and the alteration of landscapes allowed communities in north-central Asia to build complex societies and long-distance trading networks, which linked cities and supported Empires. In Domesticated, a nuanced narrative emerges, one that situates north-central Asia as a vital locale for the study of the adoption of domesticated species and underscores how these developments contributed to alternative forms of social complexity.