Coins, Art and Chronology II ─ The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands

Generated by two 2008 symposia--October in Kyoto and November in Vienna-- the 24 papers in this collection look in turn at coins and chronology and art and archaeology in what is generally now called Central Asia. Their topics include Alkhan and Hephthalite coinage, the last Bactrian kings, copper coinage and the Sasanian monetary heritage, the Chionite and Kidarite periods as seen from Samarkand, new data for a tentative historical reassessment of late historic cultural landscape in Swat, archaeological and art historical evidence from North-West Pakistan for the Shahi period, and archaeological traces of early Turks in Transoxiana. There is no index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)