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041 0 _aEnglish
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100 1 _aFrantz Grenet
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245 1 0 _aRefocusing Central Asia
260 _bCollège de France
_c2016
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520 _aThe notion of Central Asia emerged at a late stage, replacing that of “Tartary”, often associated with the Mongol Terror, in 1825 only. Two twentieth-century archaeological currents profoundly contributed to the revival of studies on this region: the French school led by the Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan, and the Soviet school characterized by large multidisciplinary expeditions. The rediscovery of the region’s two main languages, Sogdian and Bactrian, has significantly fu...
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546 _aEnglish
653 _aPre-Islamic history
653 _aarcheology
653 _aPre-Islamic culture
653 _ahistory
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