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Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies Volume 2 Issue 1 New!

Subject Areas: Archeology (arts and humanities); ; ; ; ; ; ;
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press - Edinburgh University Press
ISSN: 2399-357X
SJR: 2

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2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0033
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2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0023
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Correlating findings from the Central Helmand Archaeological Study (CHAS) with those from previous surveys in the Central Helmand Valley, Afghanistan

Abramiuk, Marc A.

2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0024

The Central Helmand Archaeological Study (CHAS) was a rapid archaeological reconnaissance led and undertaken by the author in 2011 to support counterinsurgency efforts on behalf of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)...
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Early Iron Age culture of Sistan, Afghanistan

Allen, Mitchell; Trousdale, William B.

2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0025

The Helmand Sistan Project, conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and Afghan Directorate of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in the 1970s but hitherto unpublished, uncovered through survey and excavation an extensive settlement system along the lower Helmand River dating to the late...
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What is the “Afghan Genizah”? A short guide to the collection of the Afghan Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel, with the edition of two documents

Haim, Ofir

2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0026

This article provides an overview of a rare collection of manuscripts that was purchased by the National Library of Israel in recent years. These manuscripts, which belong to a larger corpus of manuscripts known as the “Afghan Genizah,” appear to have originated in central Afghanistan, possibly...
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Fashion Ware in Mes Aynak, Logar: Chronology and comparison (with an Appendix on a single specimen of tulip-bowl from Site MA-100)

Noori, Noor Agha; Olivieri, Luca M.; Iori, Elisa

2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0027

This paper deals with the presence at Mes Aynak (Logar, Afghanistan) of a luxury ware, which is well known from various Bajaur sites, and stratigraphically well documented in Late Kushan/Kushano-Sasanian phases at the urban site of Barikot (Swat, Pakistan). In the latter site this luxury ware...
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Regions and regional variations in Hellenistic Central Asia: what pottery assemblages can tell us

Puschnigg, Gabriele; Houal, Jean-Baptiste

2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0028

Regions play an important part in scholarly discussions on Hellenistic Central Asia. Most commonly the concept of regions is determined by historically testified administrative entities. They also form the basis for many art-historical and archaeological considerations which seek to define...
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Kharita: the royal art of letter dispatching

Zeir, Ula

2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0030

The practice of dispatching kharita had been part of the royal correspondence of Muslim rulers for centuries, particularly in Persia and India. Originating from Arabic, the term kharita refers to a pouch fabricated from leather or silk, or possibly other material. Although the dictionary...
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Brahmi legends on Umayyad Fulus: Interrogating local minting practices and numismatic transculturation in Gandhara (ca. 750 CE)

Ziad, Waleed

2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0029

This paper concerns a historically significant find of copper derivatives of Umayyad post-reform fulus from Gandhara, probably minted in the mid-eighth century under Turk Shahi sovereignty (c. 667–875). The coins share an unusual feature: two Brahmi aksharas on an Umayyad AE prototype, inversely...
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Recent books relating to Afghanistan

2019 Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies

doi:10.3366/afg.2019.0031

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