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INTRODUCTION Katheryn M. LINDUFF and Karen S. RUBINSON, "How Objects Tell Stories: Essays in Honor of Emma C. Bunker" I. OBJECTS AND CULTURAL INTERSECTION Trudy S. KAWAMI, "A Steppe Warrior in Achaemenid Employ? Grave 4.28 at Choga Mish, Khuzistan, Iran" Annette L. JULIANO, "Restructuring Reality: Zoomorphs, from Fantastic to Hybrid" Catrin KOST, "Changed Strategies of Interaction: Exchange Relations on China's Northern Frontier in Light of the Finds from Xinzhuangtou" Judith A. LERNER, "All That Glitters: Foreign Jewelry in Chinese Tombs from Han into Tang" Katheryn M. LINDUFF, "Guardians of the Brave/Keepers of the Empire: Horses in the Han imaginary" Jessica RAWSON, "Gold, an Exotic Material in Early China" Karen S. RUBINSON, "The Authority of Horse-Rider Iconography: Imagery as the Power of the Past (The Eurasian Steppe and Yunnan in the late Millennium BCE)" II: OBJECTS, TECHNOLOGY AND CROSS-CULTURAL EXCHANGE CHIOU-PENG Tze Huey, "Early Copper-base Metals in Western Yunnan" HAN Rubin and WANG Dong-Ning, "Study of Tin-enriched Ancient Bronzes from the Northern Grassland of China" Sergey MINIAEV, "Xiongnu Bronze Metallurgy in the Trans-Baikal Area" Vincent C. PIGOTT, "The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), the Seima-Turbino Horizon and a Possible Eastward Transmission of Tin-Bronze Technology in Later Third and Early Second Millennium BCE Inner Asia" Authors' Addresses Color Plates