Franklin, Kathryn and Boak, E. (2019) The road from above: remotely sensed discovery of early modern travel infrastructure in Afghanistan. Archaeological Research in Asia 18 , pp. 40-54. ISSN 2352-2267.
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Abstract
Caravanserais or ‘road inns’ were a central aspect of medieval and early modern sociality in Central Asia, as infrastructural investments made by centralized polities to promote long distance exchange, and as locales for providing charitable hospitality. This paper presents data on early modern (16-17th c) caravan networks in Afghanistan, discovered and mapped using satellite imagery and historical data by the Afghan Heritage Mapping Partnership (AHMP) at the University of Chicago. By recording networks of standardized roadside architecture from the Safavid-Mughal period, we generate new information on previously understudied routes of the early modern “Silk Roads.”
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | archaeology of Afghanistan, early modern empires, caravan routes, remote sensing, GIS |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Kate Franklin |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2019 08:58 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:47 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25988 |
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