Full text PDF of The Silk Road, Vol. 9 (2011)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
The Brunei Shipwreck: A Witness to the International Trade in the China Sea around 1500
Michèle Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens
Zoroastrian Funerary Beliefs and Practices Known from the Sino-Sogdian Tombs in China
Judith A. Lerner
The Painted Vase of Merv in the Context of Central Asian Pre-Islamic Funerary Tradition
Matteo Compareti
New Evidence on Cultural Relations in Northeastern Iran in the Parthian Period: Results of Archaeological Excavations at Dibaj Damghan
Mahnaz Sharifi
The Chaoyang Northern Pagoda. A Photo Essay
Daniel C. Waugh
The Azerbaijan Museum in Tabriz
Gholamreza Yazdani, Mina Ranjbar, Abdalreza Hashtroudilar
Museums in Afghanistan – A Roadmap into the Future (with an appendix on Samangan / Takht-e Rostam)
Alessandro Califano
The Frontier Fortification of the Liao Empire in Eastern Transbaikalia
Andrei V. Lunkov, Artur V. Kharinskii, Nikolai N. Kradin, Evgenii V. Kovychev
Early Contacts between Scandinavia and the Orient
Gunilla Larsson
Maps of the Xiongnu Cemetery at Tamiryn Ulaan Khoshuu, Ogii nuur, Arkhangai Aimag, Mongolia
David E. Purcell
Review Article: Up from the Ice — a Look at Dress in the Iron Age Altai
Irene Good
BOOK REVIEWS
New Turns on the Silk Road [Golden, Central Asia in World History; Liu, The Silk Road in World History; Liu and Shaffer, Connections across Eurasia]
Jennifer Webster
“…Full of Sound and Fury…” [Flërov, “Goroda” i “zamki” Khazarskogo kaganata / “Cities” and “Castles” of the Khazarian Kaganate]
Daniel C. Waugh
L. F. Nedashkovskii. Zolotoordynskie goroda nizhnego Povolzh’ia i ikh okruga [Cities of the Golden Horde in the Lower Volga River Region and Their Periphery]
Daniel C. Waugh
The Gray Eminence of Kashgar Speaks [N. F. Petrovskii. Turkestanskie pis’ma (Turkestan Letters)]
Daniel C. Waugh
The Spillings Hoard in the Gotlands Museum
Daniel C. Waugh