Full text PDF of The Silk Road, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Winter 2008)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editor’s Desktop. Beyond the Sensational: The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums’ “Origins of the Silk Road”

ARTICLES

The ‘Silk Roads’ Concept Reconsidered: About Transfers: Transportation and Transcontinental Interactions in Prehistory
Hermann Parzinger

The Dream and the Glory: Integral Salvage of the Nanhai No. 1 Shipwreck and Its Significance
Xu Yongjie

The Byzantine Element in the Turkic Gold Cup with the Tiger Handle Excavated at Boma, Xinjiang
Lin Ying

Xiongnu Elite Tomb Complexes in the Mongolian Altai: Results of the Mongol-American Hovd Archaeology Project, 2007
Bryan K. Miller, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Tseveendorj Egimaa, and Christine Lee

Excavation of a Xiongnu Satellite Burial
Jessica Jones and Veronica Joseph

The Tahilt Region: A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Tahilt Surroundings to Contextualize the Tahilt Cemeteries
James T. Williams

Food as Culture: The Kazakh Experience
Alma Kunanbaeva