New special issue devoted to ancient Silk Roads and cultural contacts across Eurasia

BMFEA 75 – ”New Perspectives in Eurasian Archaeology”

Volume 75 of the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities is a special issue, ”New Perspectives in Eurasian Archaeology,” also the title of a IIAS-ASEF sponsored symposium at the Museum in late 2003 — in commemoration of the museum’s illustrious founder, Johan Gunnar Andersson, and his explorations of the archaeology of prehistoric East-West contacts and the fascinating issues regarding possible early relations between prehistoric East and central Asia. The volume is a contribution to the vibrant new research in this field.

BMFEA 75 contains the following original articles and reports:

— LI Shuicheng: Ancient Interactions in Eurasia and Northwest China: Revisiting Johan Gunnar Andersson’s Legacy;

— MEI Jianjun: Qijia and Seima-Turbino: The Question of Early Contacts Between Northwest China and the Eurasian Steppe;

— Louisa G. FITZGERALD-HUBER: The Qijia Culture: Paths East and West;

— Bo LAWERGREN: Western Influences on the Early Chinese Qin-Zither;

— YUAN Jing and Rowan FLAD: Two Issues Concerning Ancient Domesticated Horses in China;

— Donald B. WAGNER: The Earliest Use of Iron in China;

— CHEN Xingcan: Where Did the Chinese Leather Raft Come From? –A Forgotten Issue in the Study of Ancient East-West Cultural Interaction;

— CHOE Chong Pil: Some Problems Concerning Korean Dolmens in Eurasian Perspective;

— Evgeny BOGDANOV: The Origin of the Image of a Predator Rolling up in a Ring in the Portable Art of Central Asia;

— Nguyen Kim DUNG: Johan Gunnar Andersson’s systematic research on Fai Tsi Long Archipelago archaeology and the Andersson collections kept in Viet Nam;

— Nils RINGSTEDT: Swedish Archaeology and the Archaeology of Long-Distance Trade.

In addition, there is a separate article by Lucie OLIVOVA, ”Forgotten Bridges: Dulinqiao and Shanqiao in Southern Hebei, China,” which discusses bridges which are favorite symbols of cultural contact, thus very near the theme of the volume as a whole, evoking the BMFEA credo of ”Dialogue, not diatribe.”

The BMFEA is available for purchase from the MFEA, http://www.ostasiatiska.se, English section