28 Jun 2006

Trade Routes Resources Blog
Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "A collection of online resources of use to dromography, or the comparative study of organisation, history, geography, and logistics of movement, transportation and communication networks. This site is a part of the Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project (www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html)."
Site contents: RECENT POSTS (* Newest GIS data sets from "OWTRAD Dromographic Digital Data Archives (ODDDA)"; * Principal trade routes of ancient Palestine; * Routes of the Radhanite Merchants; * Logistics of Boat Travel; * Nepalese Children as Porters; * Nepalese Porters May Be World's Most Efficient Haulers; * Ancient Tea-Horse Road; * Tea Horse Road, Yunnan/Sichuan/Tibet; * Porter Route: Tianquan to Kangding, Sichuan/Tibet; * Horses, Silver, and Cowries: Yunnan in Global Perspective; * Scott Levi, H-WORLD, on Overland Trade Early-Modern Times). MONTHLY ARCHIVES (Feb 2002 - Jun 2006).
URL http://trade-routes-resources.blogspot.com/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30