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Following the Donkey’s Trail (Part II): a linguistic and archaeological study on the introduction of domestic donkeys to China

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2024
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Abedi, M., Müller, S., Behr, W., & Wertmann, P. (2024). Following the Donkey’s Trail (Part II): a linguistic and archaeological study on the introduction of domestic donkeys to China. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 6(2), 294–358. https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-20240063

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How and when did domestic donkeys arrive in China? This article sets out to uncover the donkeys’ forgotten trail from West Asia across the Iranian plateau to China, using archaeological, art historical, philological, and linguistic evidence. Following Parpola and Janhunen’s (2011) contribution to our understanding of the Indian wild ass and Mitchell’s (2018) overview of the history of the domestic donkey in West Asia and the Mediterranean, we will attempt to shed light on the transmission of the beast of burden to Eastern Eurasia.

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6

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2

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294

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358

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Equus asinus, zoonyms, cross-cultural contact, lexical borrowing, Indo-Iranian, Old and Middle Chinese

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English

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2024-10-16

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2024-12-05

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2589-8825

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Abedi, M., Müller, S., Behr, W., & Wertmann, P. (2024). Following the Donkey’s Trail (Part II): a linguistic and archaeological study on the introduction of domestic donkeys to China. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 6(2), 294–358. https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-20240063

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