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The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, ISAW, is an independent center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, intended to cultivate comparative and connective investigations of the ancient world. It offers film screenings, lectures and gallery exhibitions to the general public.
ISAW’s scope encompasses cultures from the western Mediterranean to China, and seeking to cross the traditional boundaries between academic disciplines and promoting methodologies open to the integration of every category of evidence and method of analysis, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, history, economics, sociology, art history and the history of science and technology.
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Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Wed, March 7, 2012 – Sun, June 3, 2012 Nomads and Networks is the first U.S. exhibition to provide a comprehensive overview of the fascinating nomadic culture of the peoples of eastern Kazakhstan’s Altai and Tianshan regions from roughly the eighth to first centuries BCE.
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