Nature: Silk Road Evolved as 'Grass-Routes' Movement
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 13:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Silk Road were traversed by Marco Polo, the foundations for these trans-Asian interaction networks were being carved by nomads moving herds to lush mountain pastures, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.