Silk Road evolved as 'grass-routes' movement

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 16:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Great 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.

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