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In An Archaeological, Sociological and Historical Study, volume 2 of The Oasis of Bukhara, Rocco Rante, Florian Schwarz and Luigi Tronca engage in a strong, pluridisciplinary collaboration and use an innovative approach to offer a new contribution to the history of the oasis of Bukhara from the end of the last millennium BCE to the end of the medieval era. Referencing archaeological, historical and sociological data, the book revisits the history of this Central Asian region, giving the reader, specialist and general reader a detailed description of the political and socio-economical features that characterized the oasis during this long chronological span. The volume is co-published by Brill, Leiden, and the Louvre Museum, Paris. Contents Preface List of Figures Introduction 1 An Archaeological Pluridisciplinary Study 2 A Few Considerations regarding the Digital Humanities Approach Chapter 1 Archaeological Pluridisciplinary Activities 1 Morphology of Cities 1.1 The Tripartite Sites 1.2 The Bipartite Sites 2 Paleodemographic Data within the Oasis 3 Chronology of the Oasis of Bukhara 3.1 Phase 1 3.2 Phase 2 3.3 Phase 3 3.4 Phase 4 3.5 Phase 5 3.6 Phase 6 4 Archaeo-Sociological Interactions: Network Analysis within the Oasis of Bukhara 4.1 The Theoretical Background 4.2 The Methodological Background 4.3 Methods 4.4 Bipartite Sites and Tripartite Sites in Their Territorial Layout: Some Case Examples 4.5 Connections between Tripartite and Bipartite Sites 4.6 Connections between Tripartite Sites through Main Roads 4.7 Connections between Tripartite Sites through Watercourses Chapter 2 Land behind Bukhara 1 Preliminary Remarks 2 Historical Framework 2.1 Bukhara and Sogdiana: The Emergence of a Historical Landscape in Antiquity 2.2 The Achaemenid and Early Post-Achaemenid Record (Late 6th to 3rd Century BCE) 2.3 The Earliest Chinese Evidence (2nd Century BCE to 1st Century CE) 2.4 A Sasanian Presence in Bukhara? Excursus: Niumi/Numijkat/Nokmitan/Namit/Bukhara 2.5 Rising above the Horizon of the Written Record 2.6 Post-Han Chinese Sources: 5th to 7th Century 2.7 From Sogdic to Early Islamic 2.7.1 Elements of the Internal Structures of the Oasis 2.7.2 Tārīkh-i Bukhārā 2.7.3 Excursus: The Campaigns of Qutayba b. Muslim 2.7.4 Early Samanid Transformations 2.8 The Early Islamic Record Up to around 1200 CE 2.8.1 10th-Century Geographers 2.8.2 The Schematic Representation of the Districts and Main Irrigation Arteries in the Classical Islamic Sources 2.8.3 Districts and Towns according to 10th-Century Geographical Texts 2.8.4 The Oasis in al-Samʿānī’s Kitāb al-Ansāb 2.9 Mongol-Period Transformations 2.10 The Main Rivers and Administrative Districts in the Oasis 2.10.1 Rūdh-i Bukhārā/Daryā-yi Kūhak/Ḥarām Kām/Daryā-yi Qarākūl (Lower Zarafshan) 2.10.2 Sluices, Bridges and Fords on the Zarafshan 2.10.3 Main Administrative Districts 3 Gazetteer of Toponyms and Settlements 3.1 Afshāna and Kharmītan 3.2 Bānab/Bānāb 3.3 Chargh (Shargh) and Iskijkat 3.4 Kakhishtuvan 3.5 Khāma 3.6 Khujādā 3.7 Khunbūn (West) 3.8 Khunbūn (East) = Kārak /Kārīk- ʿAlaviyān 3.9 Kumijkat 3.10 Mughkān 3.11 Parkad/Barkad 3.12 Pinjan 3.13 Rāzmāz 3.14 Rāmish 3.15 Sivanj/Savinj 3.16 Tārāb 3.17 Ṭavāvīs 3.18 Vābkand 3.19 Vardāna 3.20 Varka 3.21 Zandana/Zandani Conclusion Bibliography Index "In The Oasis of Bukhara: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution, Rocco Rante, archaeologist at the Louvre Museum, presents the results of a large-scale and ambitious regional archaeological investigation of the oasis of Bukhara, corresponding to the delta of the Zerafshan River, from the end of the 1st millennium BCE to the Timurid period. Rante reports the conclusions of several studies of the oasis, realised with the collaboration of distinguished specialists, and covers topics such as human migration, water and the city, urban development and changes in human behaviour. He also revisits the history of this part of Central Asia, providing new historical and cultural insights arising out of the intense archaeological activities undertaken in the field. The volume is co-published by Brill, Leiden, and the Louvre Museum, Paris"-- Provided by publisher In Archaeological Pluridisciplinary Activities and Historical Study, volume 2 of The Oasis of Bukhara, Rocco Rante, Florian Schwarz and Luigi Tronca engage in a strong, pluridisciplinary collaboration and use an innovative approach to offer a new contribution to the history of the oasis of Bukhara from the end of the last millennium BCE to the end of the medieval era. Referencing archaeological, historical and sociological data, the book revisits the history of this Central Asian region, giving the reader, specialist and general reader a detailed description of the political and socio-economical features that characterized the oasis during this long chronological span