Foreword | Alkhan and Hephthalite Coinage | A View from Samarkand: The Chionite and Kidarite Periods in the Archaeology of Sogdiana | The Pottery from Bajaur: A Window into the Late Gandharan Tradition | Post-Gandharan / Non-Gandharan: An Archaeological Inquiry into a Still Nameless Period | The Shahi Period: Archaeological and Art Historical Evidence from North-West Pakistan | Archaeological Traces of Early Turks in Transoxiana | From Kesar the Kābulšāh and Central Asia | Khotan in the Last Quarter of the First Millennium: Is there Artistic Evidence of the Interrelations between Khotan and Tibet? A Preliminary Survey | Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai in the Post-Kushan Period | Between Begram I and III. A Blank Period in the History of Kāpiśī | Cultural Mobility, a Case Study: the Crowned Buddha of the Kabul Shāh | ´Xiiaona- and Xyôn in Zoroastrian Texts | Names and Titles from Kuṣāṇa Τimes to the Hūṇas | The Kidarites, the Numismatic Evidence. With an Analytical Appendix by A. Oddy | Differences in the Patterns of Kidarite and Alkhon Coin Distribution at Begram and Kashmir Smast | Coinage of the Nezak | Nezak in Chinese Sources | Two Late Bactrian Documents | The Last Bactrian Kings | Umayyad’ Zāvulistān and Arachosia: Copper Coinage and the Sasanian Monetary Heritage | Fasting Buddhas, Ascetic Forest Monks, and the Rise of the Esoteric Tradition | Issues in the Excavation, Chronology and Monuments of Tapa Sardar | Late Historic Cultural Landscape in Swat. New Data for a Tentative Historical Reassessment | Observations on the Typology and Style of Seals and Sealings from Bactria and Greater Gandhāra

The pre-Islamic history of southern Central Asia — modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India and the surrounding areas — continues to pose challenging problems that can be solved only through interdisciplinary efforts. In the tradition of "Coins, Art and Chronology" (1999), this volume comprises 24 articles by leading experts in the fields of history, art history, numismatics, archaeology and linguistics in order to document the current state of research and presents the results of two international conferences at Kyoto and Vienna in autumn 2008. While the first “Coins, Art and Chronology” concentrated on the period of the Kushanas and the Sasanians, this volume explores the post-Kushana period and questions concerning the Hunnic and Turkic phases in the history of the region, the main focus of most of the contributions. The volume is published within the framework of the National Research Network "The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century", financed by the Austrian Science Funds. 

The First Millenium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands

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Minoru Inaba

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