Silk Roads in the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Development of a National Heritage Inventory

Williams, Tim

doi:10.5334/ai.1918

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“…(Carlisle et al, 2014). Current examples of the implementation of Arches as a platform to inventory and map its historic resources are the HistoricPlacesLA of the City of Los Angeles, the Philippine Heritage Map, and the National Heritage Inventory of the Kingdom of Bhutan (Myers, 2016;Williams, 2016). Recently, Historic England developed Arches for the heritage inventory of Greater London and the City of Lincoln.…”

Section: Documentation For Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

A Strategy Using Heritage Documentation for Managing Change of the Historic Centre of Bukhara

Vileikis

2023

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Bukhara, historic city of the Silk Roads, has been going through changes for more than 2000 years. The historic centre is UNESCO World Heritage since 1993 including hundreds of monuments such as madrassas, mosques and caravanserais, and an urban fabric containing the traditional Bukharian houses. As a dynamic city in Uzbekistan, its transformation is ongoing. A number of previous studies, including a large scale UNESCO field campaign, have been carried out to identify the overall condition of this historic city. Being most of the traditional houses privately owned and built of earthen materials, these studies have highlighted that this type of heritage is under threat of high impact of changes. Therefore, there has been a need of guidelines to protect and manage change of this outstanding heritage. Appropriate decisions in heritage conservation are based on timely, relevant and accurate information about the conditions, materials and evolution of heritage buildings and landscapes. To support these tasks, two main international projects, the University College London (UCL) Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes (CAAL) funded by Arcadia Fund, and the Traditional Bukharian Houses Documentation and Conservation approaches funded by the World Monuments Fund (WMF) are supporting the heritage management of city of Bukhara in partnership with the International Institute of Central Asian Studies (IICAS), the local administration, universities and the Bukharian community. This paper presents the current two large projects to create a digital database of the mahallas -neighbourhoods and its traditional houses by documenting heritage attributes, and ultimately produce the Guidelines on Conservation, Maintenance and Adaptive Reuse recognising heritage regeneration, as a core principle, and the contribution of heritage towards the achievement of the UN 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Section: Documentation For Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

A Strategy Using Heritage Documentation for Managing Change of the Historic Centre of Bukhara

Vileikis

2023

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…Under the impacts of a special geographical environment and religious beliefs, the trade between Bhutan and Tibet has been ongoing for a long time, and several traditional trade routes have been formed along the fault valleys of the Himalayas (Williams, 2017;Zha and Ao, 2017), four of which are the main routes. Tremo La route, from Paro in Bhutan to Pagri in Tibet crossing Tremo La pass (Figure 3, No.14).…”

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Evolutionary process and development implications of traditional trade routes in the Himalayan region

Yan

Zhang

et al. 2022

J. Geogr. Sci.

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Traditional trade routes that penetrate the natural barrier of the Himalayas are critical for connecting major Chinese and South Asian markets. Research on these trade routes can contribute significantly to facilitating the construction of the South Asian Corridor and enhancing trans-Himalayan connectivity. Combining historical literature, field surveys, and geographic information system (GIS) techniques, this study examined the spatial distribution characteristics and evolution process of the routes, focusing on transverse valleys of the Himalayan arc. The key findings were as follows. First, there are 21 traditional trade routes traversing the Himalayan region: six Sino-Nepalese routes, four Sino-Bhutanese routes, and eleven Sino-Indian routes. Second, the evolution of traditional trade routes has entailed five distinct phases: an incipient period (pre-7th century), formation (7th century-842 AD), development (842-1959), decline (1959-1962) and recovery (1962-present). Third, the incipient and formative developmental phases were prompted by the spread of Buddhism and the exchange of goods. The stability of local governments in Tibet and Central China and favourable border trade policies along with Britain's colonial expansion and commercial interests stimulated further development of traditional trade routes. However, India's strategic miscalculation and "Forward Policy" instigated the decline phase, while the demands of regional cooperation and development are currently the key drivers of the restoration and construction phase. Finally, to shelve disputes, promote cooperation and development, and enhance political mutual trust, governments should recover and construct traditional trade routes by replanning and constructing border trade markets, expanding border trade, developing pilgrimage and tourism, and strengthening cross-border cooperative research under global climate change.

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“…Up to now, numerous heritage inventories have been deployed using Arches. These implementations range in scale from the multinational, national, regional, and local, including the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project which spans a 20 country region (Zerbini 2018), national inventories for Jamaica, Barbados, Bhutan (Williams, 2016), Jersey, and the Isle of Man, as well as the cities of Los Angeles (City of Los Angeles, Office of Historic Resources) and Lincoln, UK. 1 The Dunhuang Academy has chosen to build its grottoes inventory system utilizing the Arches open-source platform, which will reduce the workload of system development, improve the system's openness and provide for compatibility with international standards.…”

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Arches Dunhuang: Heritage Inventory System for Conservation of Grotto Resources on the Gansu Section of the Silk Road in China

Wang

Gong

Myers

et al. 2021

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. The cultural heritage of the Buddhist grottoes on the Gansu section of the Silk Road in China has important historical, cultural and artistic values. In order to better protect these precious cultural sites including through facilitating ongoing assessment of their condition, the Dunhuang Academy has created a pilot inventory based on the Arches open-source software platform. This paper first briefly introduces the most important grottoes and the representative caves in Gansu province. It then, in view of the diversity of the grotto architecture layout, describes the Arches semantic graph data modelling technology and how the flexibility of Arches Designer was used to design the resource models, which not only meet data management needs, but also ensure data interoperability and longevity through incorporation of the CIDOC-CRM ontology. In addition, through design of the grottoes map plugin and resource components within Arches, the simple interaction and intuitive visualization of grottoes information was achieved. The Dunhuang Academy’s deployment of Arches will serve the need for grottoes data management and provide support for the establishment of a more scientific and effective protection and management system for the grottoes on the Silk Road in Gansu province. It is hoped that this project will demonstrate the suitability of the Arches platform to support the management of other grotto sites outside of Gansu province, as well as for heritage management elsewhere in China.

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Silk Roads in the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Development of a National Heritage Inventory

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

A Strategy Using Heritage Documentation for Managing Change of the Historic Centre of Bukhara

A Strategy Using Heritage Documentation for Managing Change of the Historic Centre of Bukhara

Evolutionary process and development implications of traditional trade routes in the Himalayan region

Arches Dunhuang: Heritage Inventory System for Conservation of Grotto Resources on the Gansu Section of the Silk Road in China

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