From: [log in to unmask] Date: September 5, 2006 10:46:37 AM EDT To: [log in to unmask] Subject: PUBL.- The Silk Road, Vol. 4, No. 1 Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies 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. _______________________________________________ Central-Eurasia-L mailing list [log in to unmask] http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/central-eurasia-l