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The third International Symposium on Silk Road held in Ningxia
The third International Symposium on
Inaugural Meeting of the
The third InternationalSymposium on the Silk Road was held in
“People don’t think of the
The topics on the Symposium included “the new important archaeologicalfindings and understandings of the early Silk Road”, “the ancient culture and environment of the early Silk Road”, “the cultural exchanges and interactionsbetween the east and the west before the Han Dynasty”, “the comparative study on the origin of the civilizations of the east andthe west”, and “the role and status of Ningxia region inthe early cultural exchanges between the east and the west”, etc.
The experts hold that the Silk Road withtime-honored history can be rated as the aorta of human’s civilization as itstarted as early as from the Old and New Stone Ages, to the ShangDynasty(1600-1046BCE), to the Zhou Dynasty(1046-256BCE), and to the QinDynasty(221-206BCE) when the early cultural exchanges at different scale indribs and drabs went on intermittently in the form ofexchanging staff, crops, livestock, metallurgy, glass and silk, etc., beforethe Han Dynasty when Zhang Qian served as an envoy to the Western Regions andinitiated the continuous cultural communications at large scale spreading overthe officials and the common people.
The foundation of the Silk RoadArchaeology Committee, composed of the experts and scholars on the study of theArchaeologyof the Silk Road and its related areas, aiming at fostering the interflow andcooperation in the area and the development of the Archaeology of the Silk RoadInitiative of China, has been approved by the Chinese Society of Archaeology in the symposium.
The researcher An Jiayao of ArchaeologicalInstitute of Chinese
Ningxia had held the Symposiums on the SilkRoad twice before with the themes on “the archaeology, religion and history of the Silk Road” and “the people of Sogdiana in
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