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Date: September 5, 2006 10:46:37 AM EDT
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Subject: PUBL.- The Silk Road, Vol. 4, No. 1

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PUBL.- The Silk Road, Vol. 4, No. 1

Posted by: Daniel Waugh <[log in to unmask]>

The publication of the latest issue (vol. 4, no. 1) of
the Silkroad Foundation's journal, "The Silk Road."  You can access  
it in pdf
format online at:

http://silkroadfoundation.org/newsletter/vol4num1/

You can connect from there to previous issues, available online in  
html format.

The new issue is devoted almost entirely to Mongolia. It contains:

Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, "The Rock Art of Mongolia"

Nicola Di Cosmo, "The Origins of the Great Wall"

David E. Purcell and Kimberly C. Spurr, "Archaeological  
Investigations of
Xiongnu Sites in the Tamir River Valley:  Results of the 2005 Joint
American-Mongolian Expedition to Tamiryn Ulaan Khosuu, Ogii nuur,  
Arkhangai
aimag, Mongolia"

Daniel C. Waugh, "The Challenges of Preserving Evidence of Chinese  
Lacquerware
in Xiongnu Graves"

Guolong Lai, "The Date of the TLV Mirrors from the Xiongnu Tombs"

Zagd Batsaikhan, "Foreign Tribes in the Xiongnu Confederation"

D. Tumen, D. Navaan, M. Erdene, "Archaeology of the Mongolian Period:  
A Brief
Introduction"

"Tombs of the Chingisids are Still Being Found... An Interview with  
Senior
Archaeologist Professor Dorjpagma Navaan"

This issue also includes information about a little-known collection  
of Khotan
antiquities:

Ulf Jaeger, "The August Hermann Francke and Hans Koerber Colletion:
Archaeological Finds from Khotan in the Munich State Museum of  
Ethnography"

and, lastly, brief tribute to the eminent archaeologist and expert on  
Sogdian
culture, Boris Il'ich Marshak, who passed away in Panjikent this summer.

Please write to the editor if you have suggestions for contributions  
to future
issues of the journal.  The next issue, scheduled to appear early in  
the new
year, will have, inter alia, a focus on Afghanistan.

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