Ebook: State of research and future directions of Xiongnu studies

Bonn : Xiongnu archaeology. Multidisciplinary Perspectives of the First Steppe Empire in Inner Asia., 2011. - p. 19-33One of the main challenges to productive archaeological investigations of the peoples, practices, and politics associated with the Xiongnu phenomenon is to surpass multi-disciplinary studies and develop truly inter disciplinary investigations. Sources of different forms or of different social lives may be analyzed separately but require a common research goal within which to frame these independent analyses so that they may be productively synthesized. This requires an integrative approach at the outset of investigation, and one which would likely lead to research outcomes that would not have been possible through any one discipline or resource.