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It's very difficult to improve this article with its current structure divided into large regions and then by countries. Thinking by countries keeps us from grasping the major historical (well...) currents that flowed throughout Asia, like the emergence of agriculture and permanent settlements, Bronze Age technology, the domestication of the horse, and the
Proto-Indo-Europeans's expansion to the Middle East, the Indian peninsula, and Central Asia with their war chariots (see map). These large-scale interactions of peoples took place across the arbitrary Asia–Europe divide that this title is asking us to respect. Actually, the Eurasian steppe didn't stop at the
Ural Mountains: it spanned from
Hungary in the west to
Manchuria in the east. The cradle of the Indo-European people in the middle of that steppe (just north of the Caucasus) falls outside the green area of our map! How do we discuss the most important people of all prehistoric Asia when their homeland is outside "Asia"?
I have no idea how to get around the "Asia" problem, but I suggest we restructure the article so it looks more like
Prehistoric Europe, with its progression from Paleolithic to Neolithic, Chalcolithic (Copper Age), Bronze Age, and Iron Age, with a major discussion of the Indo-Europeans under Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. That way, it will be easier to bring out the broader dynamics of prehistoric Asia as a whole. What do you all think?
Madalibi (
talk)
16:06, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
I've been grappling with what is the ending point for the prehistoric period in Asia. Since it seems that written language appears in the Bronze Age:
Would the Bronze age be considered the end of the Prehistoric period in Asia? Would that include all regions?
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 23:40, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Date | Writing system | Attestation | Location | Region |
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c. 2600–2500 BC | Sumerian | Cuneiform texts from Shuruppak and Abu Salabikh ( Fara period) [1] [2] | Mesopotamia | Near East |
c. 2400 BC | Akkadian | A few dozen pre-Sargonic texts from Mari and other sites in northern Babylonia [3] | Syria | Near East |
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In the section China under "Prehistory by region", it is said that "Peking Man were found in a limestone cave in Yunnan province at Zhoukoudian." In fact, Zhoukoudian is 56 kilometers from Beijing, both in Hebei province. Peking is Beijing. The different spellings are due to different transliteration systems. 無聲 ( talk) 15:33, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
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It's very difficult to improve this article with its current structure divided into large regions and then by countries. Thinking by countries keeps us from grasping the major historical (well...) currents that flowed throughout Asia, like the emergence of agriculture and permanent settlements, Bronze Age technology, the domestication of the horse, and the
Proto-Indo-Europeans's expansion to the Middle East, the Indian peninsula, and Central Asia with their war chariots (see map). These large-scale interactions of peoples took place across the arbitrary Asia–Europe divide that this title is asking us to respect. Actually, the Eurasian steppe didn't stop at the
Ural Mountains: it spanned from
Hungary in the west to
Manchuria in the east. The cradle of the Indo-European people in the middle of that steppe (just north of the Caucasus) falls outside the green area of our map! How do we discuss the most important people of all prehistoric Asia when their homeland is outside "Asia"?
I have no idea how to get around the "Asia" problem, but I suggest we restructure the article so it looks more like
Prehistoric Europe, with its progression from Paleolithic to Neolithic, Chalcolithic (Copper Age), Bronze Age, and Iron Age, with a major discussion of the Indo-Europeans under Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. That way, it will be easier to bring out the broader dynamics of prehistoric Asia as a whole. What do you all think?
Madalibi (
talk)
16:06, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
I've been grappling with what is the ending point for the prehistoric period in Asia. Since it seems that written language appears in the Bronze Age:
Would the Bronze age be considered the end of the Prehistoric period in Asia? Would that include all regions?
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 23:40, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Date | Writing system | Attestation | Location | Region |
---|---|---|---|---|
c. 2600–2500 BC | Sumerian | Cuneiform texts from Shuruppak and Abu Salabikh ( Fara period) [1] [2] | Mesopotamia | Near East |
c. 2400 BC | Akkadian | A few dozen pre-Sargonic texts from Mari and other sites in northern Babylonia [3] | Syria | Near East |
[edit conflict]
References
In the section China under "Prehistory by region", it is said that "Peking Man were found in a limestone cave in Yunnan province at Zhoukoudian." In fact, Zhoukoudian is 56 kilometers from Beijing, both in Hebei province. Peking is Beijing. The different spellings are due to different transliteration systems. 無聲 ( talk) 15:33, 20 July 2019 (UTC)