Michael D FrachettiMichael D. Frachetti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University, St Louis. His work addresses how economic and political strategies served to shape inter-regional networks across Asia as early as 2000 BC (the Mid-Bronze Age), andhow those networks laid the foundation for the later Silk Roads. He conducts archaeological field research in Eastern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. He is the author of Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia (2009) and a forthcoming book entitled Ancient Inner Asia. Read More Read Less