CONTEMPORARY STATUS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESERCH ON SILK ROAD IN CENTRAL ASIA AND KOREA AND A.N. BERNSHTAM’S RESEARCHES

This paper proposes three measures for a new archeological study on the Silk Road. First, a systematic understanding is required for the archeological achievements on the Silk Road made during the Soviet Era before the 1990s. Nowadays, many scholars in East Asia, including South Korea, rely on literature written mainly in English to study and understand the Silk Road. However, the Silk Road’s archeological excavations were mostly made before the 1990s, that is, they were not well known in South Korea and the West.