Late imperial China, the early modern history of exchange between Asia and Europe, and especially the material culture of global exchange, therapeutic commodities, and the cultures and practices of merchants
Languages, scripts, inscriptions, and rock art in ancient Arabia and its environs; ancient literacy and its uses; the history of ancient Arabian cultures and of the ancient Near Eastern nomads
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