A UNESCO project, Support for the Preparation for the World Heritage Serial Nomination of the Silk Roads in South Asia, afforded the opportunity to research evidence for Silk Roads exchange in South Asia. The first part of the paper explores the challenges of archaeology in the Kingdom of Bhutan, located on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas. GIS-based approaches to model earlier settlement patterns and trade routes are considered. This led to a discussion with Bhutanese colleagues, in the Division for Conservation of Heritage Sites (DCHS), regarding the need for a digital national heritage inventory: to help manage and protect heritage resources, and to improve the communication of the rich heritage of the country to its people. The second part of this paper explores some of the issues around that debate, and the steps taken to implement the chosen solution: the Getty Conservation Institute/World Monuments Fund ARCHES heritage inventory system.

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不丹王国的丝绸之路与国家遗产名录的发展

联合国教科文组织一项名为“支持南亚丝绸之路世界遗产系列提名的准备工作”的项目，为研究南亚丝绸之路交流的证据提供了机会。本文的第一部分探讨了喜马拉雅山脉东部南坡的不丹王国的考古挑战。考虑了基于GIS的方法来模拟早期的结算方式和贸易路线。这导致与遗产保护部（DCHS）的不丹同事进行了有关数字国家遗产清单的必要性的讨论：帮助管理和保护遗产资源，并增进对遗产丰富遗产的交流。国家对人民。本文的第二部分探讨了围绕该辩论的一些问题，