Volume 11 (2013)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

In Memoriam

ARTICLES

Langdon Warner at Dunhuang: What Really Happened?
Justin M. Jacobs

Metallurgy and Technology of the Hunnic Gold Hoard from Nagyszéksós
Alessandra Giumlia-Mair

New Discoveries of Rock Art in Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor and Pamir: A Preliminary Study
John Mock

On the Interpretation of Certain Images on Deer Stones
Sergei S. Miniaev

Tamgas, a Code of the Steppes. Identity Marks and Writing among the Andient Iranians
Niccolò Manassero

Some Observations on Depictions of Early Turkic Costume
Sergey A. Yatsenko

The Relations between China and India and the Opening of the Southern Silk Road during the Han Dynasty
Yang Juping

An Egyptian Contribution to a Late 5th-Century Chinese Coffin
Rosalind E. Bradford

A Study on the Auspicious Animal Motifs on Han Textiles in Ancient China
Zhang Wen, Xu Chunzhong, Wu Zhuo, and Qiu Yiping

On the Issue of Silk Weaving in Genoese Kaffa and Textiles from the Belorechenskaia Kurgans
Zvezdana Dode

The Trade in Horses between Khorasan and India in the 13th-17th Centuries
Ali Bahrani Pour

Samarqand Refashioned: A Traveller’s Impressions, August 2013
Elena Paskaleva (with a preface by Daniel C. Waugh)

Featured Museum: The Renovated Central Asia Exhibit in the State Hermitage Museum
Julia Elikhina

Featured Museum, II: Distance Learning and the Museum: the Arts of the Islamic world at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
Daniel C. Waugh

REVIEW ESSAYS

Rethinking Central Asia: A Review of The Age of the Steppe Warriors
Alicia Ventresca Miller
A review of Christoph Baumer, The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors (2012)

In Search of the Golden King
Carol G. Thomas
A review of Frank Holt, Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan (2012)

A Road Less Taken?
Daniel C. Waugh
A review of E. V. Rtveladze, Velikii indiiskii put’ / The Great Indian Road (2012)

Marshak on Sogdian Ceramics
Bertille Lyonnet
A review of Boris Marshak, Keramika Sogda V-VII vekov kak istoriko-kul’turnyi pamiatnik [Sogdian pottery of the 5th-7th centuries as a historical and cultural phenomenon] (2012)

Expanding Geographic Horizons along the Maritime Silk Road
Daniel C. Waugh
A review of Hyunhee Park, Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-modern Asia (2012)

New Research on Sacred Places in Central Asia
Jennifer Webster
A review of Muslim Saints and Mausoleums in Central Asia and Xinjiang (2013)

A Treasury of Old Images for the Study of Inner Asia
Daniel C. Waugh
A review of V. A. Prishchepova, Illustrativnye kollektsii po narodam Tsentral’noi Azii…v sobraniiakh Kunstkamery [Illustrated collections on the peoples of Inner Asia…in the Kunstkamera] (2011)

BOOK NOTICES

The following book notices were all written by Daniel C. Waugh:

  • David Jongeward, Elizabeth Errington, Richard Salomon, and Stefan Baums. Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries.
  • Chinese Silks. Edited by Dieter Kuhn
  • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 23, No. 2 (April 2013), pages numbered 149-389: Textiles as Money on the Silk Road.
  • A. A. Ierusalimskaia. Moshchevaia Balka: neobychnyi arkheologicheskii pamiatnik na Severokavkazskom shelkovom puti / Moshtcevaya Balka: an unusual archaeological site at the North Caucasus silk road.
  • Materialy po istorii kochevykh narodov v Kitae III-V vv. Vyp. 4. Di i Tsiany [Materials on the history of the nomadic peoples in China, 3rd-5th centuries. Vol. 4. The Di and Qiang ]. Perevod s kitaiskogo, predislovie i kommentarii V. S. Taskina.
  • Siuan’-tszan [Xuanzang]. Zapiski o Zapadnykh stranakh [epokhi] Velikoi Tan (Da Tan si iui tszi). Vvedenie, perevod s kitaiskogo i kommentarii N. V. Aleksandrovoi
  • Sarah Searight. Lapis Lazuli: In Pursuit of a Celestial Stone.
  • Ancient Iran from the Air. Edited by David Stronach and Ali Mousavi. Photographs by Georg Gerster.
  • Getzel M. Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India.
  • K. Sh. Tabaldyev. Drevnie pamiatniki Tian’-Shania [Ancient Monuments of the Tian-Shan].
  • A. Iu. Alekseev. Zoloto skifskikh tsarei v sobranii Ermitazha [Gold of the Scythian rulers in the Hermitage collection]
  • Kanat Uskenbai. Vostochnyi Dasht-i Kypchak v XIII–nachale XV veka: Problemy etnopoliticheskoi istorii Ulusa Dzhuchi [The Eastern Kypchak Steppe in the 13th–beginning of the 15th centuries: Problems of the ethnopolitical history of the Ulus of Jöchi].
  • Erbulat A. Smagulov. Drevnii Sauran [Ancient Sauran]
  • Religiia v istorii narodov Iuzhnoi Sibiri i Tsentral’noi Azii. Chast’ II: Epokha srednevekov’ia. Khrestomatiia[Religion in the history of the peoples of Southern Siberia and Inner Asia. Part II: The Middle Ages. An anthology].
  • Sebouth David Aslanian. From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. The Global Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa.
  • Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology. Vol. 5 (2010)
  • Bulletin of the Asia Institute. Zoroastrianism and Mary Boyce with Other Studies., N.S., Vol. 22 (2008/2012).
  • Literature and History of the Western Regions, 7 (2013).