TY - BOOK AU - Rante,Rocco TI - The Oasis of Bukhara, Volume 1: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution T2 - Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World Series SN - 9789004396258 PY - 2019/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Archaeology-Uzbekistan-Bukhoro KW - Bukhoro (Uzbekistan)-Antiquities KW - Bukhoro (Uzbekistan)-Civilization KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- The Oasis of Bukhara: Volume 1: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Avant-propos -- Préface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Survey -- 1 Landscape and Human Dynamics -- 1 The Zerafshan Landscape and its Evolution -- 2 Human Occupation from the Neolithic to Antiquity -- 3 The "Silk Road" in Archaeological Surveys and Historical Sources -- 4 The Birth of the North-eastern Route of the Silk Road -- 2 Settlements and their Evolution -- 1 The Archaeological Survey -- 2 Settlement Distribution within the Oasis -- 3 Chronology and Evolution of Settlements -- 3 Morphology of Cities -- 1 Urban Topography -- 2 The Tripartite Sites -- 3 Urban Categories and Water Resources -- 4 Water Network and Tripartite Sites between Hydrological and Historical Surveys -- 5 The Road Network -- 6 The Bipartite Sites -- 7 Water Network and Bipartite Sites between Hydrological and Historical Surveys -- 8 The Road Network -- 9 Socio-economic Aspects -- 10 Urban Fortifications within the Oasis -- Part 2: The Excavation -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 4 Ramitan -- 1 Landscape and Archaeological Vestiges -- 2 Earlier Works -- 3 Plan of the City -- 4 Stratigraphy -- 5 Evolution of the Urban Plan -- 6 Main Monuments -- 7 Fortifications -- 8 The Suburb (rabad) -- 5 Paykend -- 1 Landscape and Archaeological Vestiges -- 2 Earlier Works -- 3 Plan of the City -- 4 Stratigraphy -- 5 Evolution of the Urban Plan -- 6 Main Monuments -- 7 Trench E -- 8 Sector A -- 9 Sector B -- 10 Sector C -- 11 Sector F -- 12 Sector D -- 13 Sector E -- 14 Sector I -- 15 Sector K -- 16 Sector J -- 17 Sector L -- 6 Iskijkat -- 1 Landscape and Archaeological Vestiges -- 2 Some Data from Earlier Historical Studies -- 3 Plan of the City -- 4 Stratigraphy -- 5 Evolution of the Urban Plan -- 7 Kakishtuvan; 1 Landscape and archaeological vestiges -- 2 Plan of the City -- 3 Stratigraphy -- 4 Evolution of the Urban Plan -- 8 Site 250 -- 1 Landscape and Archaeological Vestiges -- 2 Plan of the City -- 3 Stratigraphy -- 4 Evolution of the Urban Plan -- 9 Bukhara -- 1 Landscape and Archaeological Vestiges -- 2 Earlier Works -- 3 Stratigraphy -- 4 A New History of Bukhara -- Conclusion -- Заключение -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - In The Oasis of Bukhara: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution, co-published by Brill and the Louvre Museum, Rocco Rante, archaeologist at the Louvre Museum, presents the results of a regional archaeological investigation of the oasis of Bukhara, from the end of the 1st millennium BCE to the Timurid period UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5842465 ER -