Migration, Trade and Peoples

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Congress. — London: The British Association for South Asian Studies, 2009. — 189 pp. — ISBN 978-0-9553924-5-0.Contents:
Foreword (Dr Michael Willis).
Indian Ocean Commerce and the Archaeology of Western India (Editors: Roberta Tomber, Lucy Blue, Shinu Abraham)
Boats, Routes and Sailing Conditions of Indo-Roman Trade (Lucy Blue).
Strategies for Surface Documentation at the Early Historic site of Pattanam, Kerala: the Malabar Region Archaelogical Survey (Shinu A. Abraham).
Archaeological investigations at Pattanam, Kerala: New Evidence for the Location of Ancient Muziris (V. Selvakumar, K.P. Shajan and Roberta Tomber).
Beyond Western India: the Evidence from Imported Amphorae (Roberta Tomber).
Gandharan Art (Editor: Dr Christine Frölich)
A Study of some Deities in Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian Coinages (Dr Christine Frölich).
Vajrapani in the Narrative Reliefs (Monika Zin).
Reliefs and Stelae from Sahri-Bahlol: a Typological Study (Carolyn Woodford Schmidt).
Indo-Scythian Buddhists in Han Dynasty China: the Visual Evidence and its Signifcance (Martha L. Carter).
The Gates to the Darel Valley from the Singal Valley: the Batakhun & the Yajei Passes. Field Research in Northern Pakistan tracing Fa Hsien’s route from Pamir to Darel (Haruko Tsuchiya).
The ‘Greek Grid-Plan’ at Sirkap (Taxila) and the Question of Greek Infuence in the North West (Rachel Mairs).
Aryans and Nomads (Editor: Asko Parpola)
The Face Urns of Gandhara and the Nasatya Cult (Asko Parpola).
Stone ‘Harvesters’ of Neolithic Tradition from Northern Indo-Pakistan Valleys (Giorgio Stacul).
The Evolution of Moulding Techniques in the Ceramic Sequence of the Swat Valley (North-West Pakistan) (Emanuele Morigi).
Relative and Absolute Chronology of Farming Monuments in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age of Northern Bactria (South-West Tajikistan) (N.M. Vinogravoda).