Volume 12 (2014)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Silk Road Dress in a Chinese Tomb: Xu Xianxiu and Sixth-Century Cosmopolitanism
Kate A. Lingley

Images of the Early Turks in Chinese Murals and Figurines from the Recently-Discovered Tomb in Mongolia
Sergey A. Yatsenko

Connections between Central Asia and the Northern Littoral of the Black Sea: the Evidence from Objects with Tamgas
Sergey V. Voroniatov

Some Examples of Central Asian Decorative Elements in Ajanta and Bagh Indian Paintings
Matteo Compareti

The Afrasiab Murals: a Pictorial Narrative Reconsidered
Guitty Azarpay

The Performance of Pain and Remembrance in Late Ancient Iran
Touraj Daryaee and Soodabeh Malekzadeh

Russo-Polovtsian Dynastic Contacts as Reflected in Genealogy and Onomastics
Anna Litvina and Fjodor Uspenskij

Excavation of Rezvan Tepe in Northeastern Iran, an Iron Age I-II Cemetery
Mahnaz Sharifi and Abbas Motarjem

The Site of Banbhore (Sindh-Pakistan): a Joint Pakistani-French-Italian Project. Current Research in Archaeology and History (2010-2014)
Niccolò Manassero and Valeria Piacentini Fiorani

Emgentiin Kherem, a Fortress Settlement of the Khitans in Mongolia
Nikolai N. Kradin, Aleksandr L. Ivliev, Ayudai Ochir, Sergei Vasiutin, Svetlana Satantseva, Evgenii V. Kovychev and Lkhagvasüren Erdenebold

The Carpet Index: Rethinking the Oriental Carpet in Early Renaissance Paintings
Lauren Arnold

Safavid Carpets of the Tahmasp School and the Tahmasp Shahnama
Gholamreza Yazdani, Mina Ranjbar, Masume Azarmdel and Maryam Rezai Bamnafshe Deraq

Huang Wenbi: Pioneer of Chinese Archaeology in Xinjiang
Justin M. Jacobs

Featured Museum I: The David Collection
Daniel C. Waugh

Featured Museum, II: The Arts of China in Seattle
Daniel C. Waugh

FEATURED REVIEW

Re-Imagining and Re-Imaging Eurasian Exchange
A review of: Toby C. Wilkinson, Tying the Threads of Eurasia: Trans-regional routes and material flows in Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia and western central Asia, c. 3000-1500 BC (2014) and the accompanying website.
Daniel C. Waugh

REVIEWS

The following by Daniel C. Waugh:

Review of: Reconfiguring the Silk Road. New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity, Ed. by Victor Mair and Jane Hickman
Review of: James A. Millward, The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013)
Review of: Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq, Ed. by Rachel Ward
Review of: Kochevniki Evrazii na puti k imperii. Iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Katalog vystavki (2012)
Review of: Sogdiitsy, ikh predshestvenniki, sovremenniki i nasledniki. Na osnove materialov konferentsii “Sogdiitsy doma i na chuzhbine”, posviashchennoi pamiati Borisa Il’icha Marshaka (1933–2006) / Sogdians, Their Precursors, Contemporaries and Heirs. Based on proceedings of conference “Sogdians at Home and Abroad” held in memory of Boris Il’ich Marshak (1933–2006)
Review of: Scripta Antiqua. Voprosy drevnei istorii, filologii, iskusstva i material’noi kul’tury. Almanakh / Scripta Antiqua. Ancient History, Philology, Arts and Material Culture. The Almanac, Vols. I–III. (2011-2014)
Review of: O. V. D’iakova, Gosudarstvo Bokhai: arkheologiia, istoriia, politika / Pohai State: Archeology, History, Politics (2014)
Review of: CDs and DVD of Kazakh music and epic

SHORT NOTICES

The following all written/compiled by Daniel Waugh:

  • Two Arabic Travel Books, ed. Mackintosh-Smith and Montgomery.
  • Uighurskie delovye dokumenty X–XIV vv. iz Vostochnogo Turkestana, ed. and tr. Tugusheva.
  • “Novye zakony” Tangutskogo gosudarstva, ed. and tr. Kychanov.
  • Dokumenty i materialy po istorii bashkirskogo naroda.
  • Leskov et al.,Meoty Zakuban’ia IV–III vv. do n. e. Nekropoli u aula Uliap. Sviatilishcha i ritual’nye kompleksy.
  • Materialy Tokharistanskoi ekspeditsii, Vyp. 9. Poselenie Dabil’kurgan v Severnoi Baktrii.
  • Baipakov, Drevniaia i srednevekovaia urbanizatsiia Kazakhstana, Vols. 1-2.
  • Akishev, Drevnie i srednevekovye gosudarstva na territorii Kazakhstana.
  • Kost, The Practice of Imagery in the Northern Chinese Steppe (5th – 1st Centuries BCE).Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology, Vol. 6.
  • Grushevoi, Ocherki ekonomicheskoi istorii Sirii in Palestiny v drevnosti (I v. do n.e.—VI v. n.e.) / Essays on Economic History of Ancient Syria and Palestine (1st c. BC — 6th c. AD).
  • Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism, ed. Lin and Radich. Hamburg Buddhist Studies, Vol. 3.
  • Brook, Mr. Selden’s Map of China. Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer.
  • Cities of the Dead. The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan. Photographs by Morton. Text by Rabbat, Köchümkulova, and Kapalova.
  • Ming: 50 Years that changed China, ed. Clunas and Harrison-Hall.
  • Kessler. Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road.
  • Publications of the M. A. Usmanov Center for Studies of the History of the Golden Horde: 1) Mirgaleev.Zolotaia Orda: bibliograficheskii ukazatel’; 2) Zolotoordynskaia tsivilizatsiia. Nauchnyi Ezhegodnik.
  • Gorod i step’ v kontaktnoi Evro-Aziatskoi zone[Fëdorov-Davydov Festschrift].
  • Ermitazhnye chteniia pamiati V. G. Lukonina (21.01.1932–10.09.1984).
  • Bulletin of the Asia Institute. N. S., Vol. 23 (2009) [2013].Evo suyadi. Essays in Honor of Richard Salomon’s 65th Birthday.
  • Literature and History of the Western Regions, Vol. 8 (2014).
  • Xiyu yanjiu. The Western Regions Studies. A Quarterly.