Food globalization in southern Central Asia: archaeobotany at Bukhara between antiquity and the Middle Ages.

ABSTRACT: The Silk Road is a modern name for a globalization phenomenon that marked an extensive network of communication and exchange in the ancient world; by the turn of the second millennium AD, commercial trade linked Asia and supported the development of a string of large urban centers across Central Asia. One of the main arteries of the medieval trade routes followed the middle and lower Zarafshan River and was connected by mercantile cities, such as Samarkand and Bukhara. Bukhara developed into a flourishing urban center between the fourth and sixth centuries AD, served as the capital of the Samanid court between AD 893 and 999, and remained prosperous into the Qarakhanid period (AD 999-1220), until the Mongol invasion in AD 1220. We present the first archaeobotanical study from this ancient

SUBMITTER: Mir-Makhamad B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10361866 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature