Volume 9 (2011)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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

Book notices (written/compiled by Daniel C. Waugh)

Unpublished Dissertations