Michael Frachetti (Washington University in St. Louis), “Human Movements in Central Eurasia Across Prehistoric and Historical Timescales” (Central Asia Initiative)

Human Movements in Central Eurasia Across Prehistoric and Historical Timescales with Michael Frachetti, Washington University in St. Louis. This lecture is focused on the results of his ongoing fieldwork at the newly documented high-altitude cities of Tashbulak and Tugunbulak (6th-11th c.CE) to illustrate new insights into the economic and political impacts of turkic nomadic hegemonies in shaping Central Asia and the Silk Roads, centuries before the Mongol Empire.

 

This event is sponsored by the Central Asia Initiative and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund.