Urban centres and the emergence of empires in Eastern Inner Asia

Antiquity

Volumn 79, Issue 306, 2005, Pages 801-818

  Rogers, J Daniel ^a   Ulambayar, Erdenebat ^b   Gallon, Mathew ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Institute of Archaeology   (Mongolia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Civilisation; Empire; Mongol; Mongolia; Urbanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947125080     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00114942     Document Type: Article

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