Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 2012

The Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology is a new journal launched by the Circle of Inner Asian Art, replacing its Newsletter (Issues 1-20, 1995-2005), which has become a major forum for discussion and publication of current international research projects and fieldwork concerning the art and archaeology of Central and Inner Asia. Uniquely the journal covers the vast regions flanking the ancient Silk Roads from the Iranian world to western China and from the Russian steppes to north-western India. The journal mainly focuses on the pre-Islamic period of art and archaeology of Inner Asia. Related scholarly articles on language and history are also published.

Le Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology est une nouvelle revue lancée par le Circle of Inner Asian Art, remplaçant la Newsletter (parutions 1 à 20, 1995-2005), qui était devenue un forum de discussion et de publication important pour les projets de recherche et de travail de terrain sur l’art et l’archéologie de la Haute-Asie. Fait unique, la revue couvre les vastes régions côtoyant les anciennes routes de la soie, du monde iranien à la Chine occidentale et des steppes russes à l’Inde du nord-ouest. Le centre d’intérêt principal de la revue sera la période pré-islamique dans l’art et l’archéologie de la Haute-Asie. Des articles scientifiques connexes sur les langues et l’histoire seront également publiés.

Luca M. Olivieri, The Last Phases at Barikot: Urban Cults and Sacred Architecture. Data from the Spring 2013 Excavation Campaign in Swat

Shaymardankul A. Rakhmanov (†), Wall Paintings from Tavka, Uzbekistan

Aleksandr Naymark, The Coinage of Nakhshab during the First–Fourth Centuries CE. Towards a New Systematization of Sogdian Coinages and the Political History of Sogd during Antiquity

Andrey V. Omel’chenko, On the Question of Sasanian Presence in Sogdiana. Recent Results of Excavations at Paykand

Sirodzh D. Mirzaakhmedov, The Ribāṭ-Caravanserais from the Eastern Suburbs of Paykand. Archaeological and Historical Aspects

Alison Betts, Vadim N. Yagodin (†), Frantz Grenet, Fiona Kidd, Michele Minardi, Melodie Bonnat, and Stanislav Khashimov, The Akchakhan-kala Wall Paintings: New Perspectives on Kingship and Religion in Ancient Chorasmia

Ken Parry, Reflections on a Silk Fragment from Toyuq: Christian or Manichaean?

Tatjana Bayerova and Gerald Kozicz, The Last Wall Standing. A Survey of the Architectural Remains and the Material Components of the Dilapidated Buddhist Temple of Chigtan in Lower Ladakh

Papers from the Roundtable "Shifting Frontiers: Current Issues in the History of Early Islamic Central Asia," held on December 17–18, 2010 at Leiden University

Petra Sijpesteijn (Leiden University), Étienne DE LA VAISSIÈRE (EHESS), Introduction

Minoru Inaba, Between Zābulistān and Gūzgān: A Study on the Early Islamic History of Afghanistan

Simone Mantellini, Serena Di Cugno, Rita Dimartino, and Amreddin E. Berdimuradov, Change and Continuity in the Samarkand Oasis: Evidence for the Islamic Conquest from the Citadel of Kafir Kala

Boris. I. Marshak (†) and Valentina I. Raspopova, Panjikent and the Arab Conquest

Asan I. Torgoev, New Data on the Islamization of South-Western Semirech’e