Renaissance Society: Silk Road Archeology

Veronica Peterson will discuss “The Archeology of the Tao River on the Silk Road.”

A series of changes in subsistence and craft technologies conspired to radically transform material culture and human lives along the “proto-Silk Road” in Northwest China more than 4,000 years ago. These changes laid the foundation for the Chinese Bronze Age, however the specific natures of these technological changes remain obscure. Discovering how these changes occurred will help form the big picture of how “civilization” emerged in East Asia.

The Renaissance Society is presented by the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library and California State University Sacramento.