06-25-2017, 06:44 PM
As a brief addendum to this thread, this paper by Khodadad Rhezakhani builds on Warwick Bell's scepticism about the 'silk road', and goes on to suggest that the whole idea is 'eurocentric'!:
https://www.academia.edu/229387/_The_Roa..._Exchange_
https://www.academia.edu/229387/_The_Roa..._Exchange_
Nathan Ross