TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frantz Grenet
AB  - The notion of Central Asia emerged at a late stage, replacing that of “Tartary”, often associated with the Mongol Terror, in 1825 only. Two twentieth-century archaeological currents profoundly contributed to the revival of studies on this region: the French school led by the Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan, and the Soviet school characterized by large multidisciplinary expeditions. The rediscovery of the region’s two main languages, Sogdian and Bactrian, has significantly fu...
ID  - OAPEN ID: 18791
KW  - Pre-Islamic history
KW  - archeology
KW  - Pre-Islamic culture
KW  - history
L1  - http://books.openedition.org/cdf/4252
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57942
PB  - Collège de France
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9782722604384
TI  - Refocusing Central Asianull
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