02 Feb 2004

Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project
Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "This site [est 7 Jul 1999 - ed.] supports online research in the field of dromography [= the study of history, geography and logistics of communication and trade routes - ed.] and provides a public-access electronic archive of geo/chrono-referenced data on land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 10,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE."
Site contents: * Introduction; * Reference Tools [In early Feb 2004 there were 30 GIS-ready datasets including] * Africa trade and pilgrimage routes data sets [...] * Asia & the Middle East data sets (# Karakoram and Pamir,1900 CE, major travel routes [17 data points; Src: Walker 1995; georeferenced], # NW China, 100 CE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' trade routes [45 data points; Src: Anonymous-4 1991; georeferenced], # NW China,1920 CE, major roads and caravan routes [111 data points; Src: Cable and French 1947; georeferenced], # Hellenistic countries, 350 BCE, trade routes [52 data points; Src: Scarre (ed.) 1988; georeferenced], # Middle East, 600-500 BCE, trade routes [13 data points; Src: Cohen and Yisrael 1995; georeferenced], # India,1550-1710 CE, major roads [88 data points; Src: Farooque 1977; georeferenced], # Persia, 50 BCE-300 CE, trade routes [92 data points; Src: Davies 1959; georeferenced], # Cambodia [Khmer], 1200 CE, major roads [35 data points; Src: Hatano 2002; georeferenced], # Iran and China, 200 BCE-500 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [27 data points; Src: Klimkeit 1988; georeferenced], # The Mediterranean, Iran and China, 200 BCE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [55 data points; Src: Klimkeit 1988; georeferenced], # Central Asia, 700-1000 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [59 data points; Src: Whitfield 1999; georeferenced], # Central Asia, 1 CE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [45 data points; Src: Foltz 1999; georeferenced], # Central Asia, 1 CE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [40 data points; Src: Anonymous-4 1991; georeferenced]); * Europe trade and pilgrimage routes data sets [...]); *The OWTRAD Gazetteer (The OWTRAD Gazetteer: Introduction [Includes a list of online Lat/Long Gazetteers], The OWTRAD Gazetteer: Georeferenced Nodes)' * Trade-Routes@mm.isu.edu scholarly forum [Historical Transport/Communication/Pilgrimage Networks forum] * The OWTRAD Notation System (Introduction, Details of the formal language); * Useful Bibliographies.
URL http://www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
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