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SUMMARY:Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China: History Unearthed from Tombs\, II
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, the second in a series of four Rostovtzeff 
 Lectures during spring 2016\, will return to the topic of immigrants\,
  but in this case two lineages with the same surname of Shi who settle
 d at Guyuan in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region where the Silk 
 Roads and Steppe Roads intersect. These people were locally powerful e
 lites serving a succession of China-based dynasties as military office
 rs\, imperial bodyguards\, horse breeders and translators in the sixth
  and seventh centuries. Their existence literally came to light when a
 rchaeologists excavated six tombs at Guyuan in the 1980s and 1990s con
 taining burial goods and seven engraved stone epitaphs written in Chin
 ese. A scholarly consensus has developed that both lineages had Sogdia
 n origins\, but this lecture along with the third lecture in the Rosto
 vtzeff series will challenge and complicate this conclusion.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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