ISBN 978-3-7001-6885-0 Print Edition
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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 pre-islamic history of southern Central Asia – modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India and the surrounding areas – still poses puzzling problems which can only be solved by transdisciplinary 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 the results of two international conferences at Kyoto and Vienna in autumn 2008. While the first “Coins, Art and Chronology” volume had its focus mainly on the period of the Kushanas and the Sasanians, it is here the post-Kushana period and the questions around the so-called “Iranian” Huns which form the main interest of most of the contributions. The publication of the volume takes place in the framework of the National Research Network “The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century”, financed by the Austrian Science Funds. Die vorislamische Geschichte des südlichen Zentralasien, einer Region, welche heutzutage Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nordindien und angrenzende Gebiete umfaßt, wirft immer noch komplexe Fragen auf, die sich nur durch das interdisziplinäre Zusammenwirken unterschiedlicher Fächer lösen lassen. Als Tagungsband zweier internationaler Kongresse in Kyoto und Wien im Herbst 2008 versammelt das vorliegende Buch in der Tradition des 1999 erschienenen Bandes „Coins, Art and Chronology“ 24 Beiträge führender Spezialisten aus Geschichte, Kunstgeschichte, Numismatik, Archäologie und Linguistik und dokumentiert damit den derzeitigen Forschungsstand. Während der erste Band von „Coins, Art and Chronology“ sich hauptsächlich auf die Perioden der Kushan und der Sasaniden konzentriert hatte, bilden hier die Zeit nach den Kushan und die Fragen rund um die sogenannten „Iranischen“ Hunnen den Hauptfokus der meisten Beiträge.

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