Download or read book Archaeological Surveys in Baluchistan 1948 and 1957 written by Beatrice De Cardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1983 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final report of a key set of archaeological surveys in a previously unstudied area of eastern Iran by one of the pioneer archaeologists of this region.
Download or read book Archaeological Surveys in Baluchistan 1948 and 1957 written by Beatrice de Cardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final report of a key set of archaeological surveys in a previously unstudied area of eastern Iran by one of the pioneer archaeologists of this region.
Download or read book The Bronze Age Towers at Bat Sultanate of Oman written by Christopher P. Thornton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third millennium B.C.E., the Oman Peninsula was the site of an important kingdom known in Akkadian texts as "Magan," which traded extensively with the Indus Civilization, southern Iran, the Persian Gulf states, and southern Mesopotamia. Excavations have been carried out in this region since the 1970s, although the majority of studies have focused on mortuary monuments at the expense of settlement archaeology. While domestic structures of the Bronze Age have been found and are the focus of current research at Bat, most settlements dating from the third millennium B.C.E. in Oman and the U.A.E. are defined by the presence of large, circular monuments made of mudbrick or stone that are traditionally called "towers." Whether these so-called towers are defensive, agricultural, political, or ritual structures has long been debated, but very few comprehensive studies of these monuments have been attempted. Between 2007 and 2012, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology conducted excavations at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat in the Sultanate of Oman under the direction of the late Gregory L. Possehl. The focus of these years was on the monumental stone towers of the third millennium B.C.E., looking at the when, how, and why of their construction through large-scale excavation, GIS-aided survey, and the application of radiocarbon dates. This has been the most comprehensive study of nonmortuary Bronze Age monuments ever conducted on the Oman Peninsula, and the results provide new insight into the formation and function of these impressive structures that surely formed the social and political nexus of Magan's kingdom.
Download or read book Tales of Three Worlds Archaeology and Beyond Asia Italy Africa written by Donatella Usai and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of papers in honour of Sandro Salvatori divided into three main sections reflecting his long years of work in Middle Asia, his time in Italy as an officer of the Archaeological Superintendency (Ministry of Cultural Heritage), and finally his studies on the prehistory of north-eastern Africa.
Download or read book Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours written by Cameron A. Petrie and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth millennium BC was a critical period of socio-economic and political transformation in the Iranian Plateau and its surrounding zones. This period witnessed the appearance of the world’s earliest urban centres, hierarchical administrative structures, and writing systems. These developments are indicative of significant changes in socio-political structures that have been interpreted as evidence for the rise of early states and the development of inter-regional trade, embedded in longer-term processes that began in the later fifth millennium BC. Iran was an important player in western Asia especially in the medium- to long-range trade in raw materials and finished items throughout this period. The 20 papers presented here illustrate forcefully how the re-evaluation of old excavation results, combined with much new research, has dramatically expanded our knowledge and understanding of local developments on the Iranian Plateau and of long-range interactions during the critical period of the fourth millennium BC.
Download or read book The Archaeology of South Asia written by Robin Coningham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesises the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE) to the third century BCE.
Download or read book Empire and Local Worlds written by Mingming Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th century that declined to a peripheral regional center by the end of the 19th century. But the historical trajectory understates the complex set of interrelationships between local structures and imperial agendas that played out over the course of centuries and dynasties. Using urban structure, documentary analysis, and archaeological artifacts, Wang shows how the study of Quangzhou represents a Chinese template for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models propounded by such theorists as Sahlins, Wolf, and Elias.
Download or read book Ceramics Before Farming written by Peter Jordan and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all benefit from this book.
Download or read book The Cambridge World History Volume 2 A World with Agriculture 12 000 BCE 500 CE written by Graeme Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of the Cambridge World History series explores the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and hunter-fisher-gatherer economies. To capture the patterns of this key change across the globe, the volume uses an expanded timeframe from 12,000 BCE–500 CE, beginning with the Neolithic and continuing into later periods. Scholars from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, historical linguistics, biology, anthropology, and history, trace common developments in the more complex social structures and cultural forms that agriculture enabled, such as sedentary villages and more elaborate foodways, and then present a series of regional overviews accompanied by detailed case studies from many different parts of the world, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
Download or read book Ancient Pakistan written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sasanian Archaeology Settlements Environment and Material Culture written by St John Simpson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers an examination of the Sasanian empire based almost entirely on archaeological and scientific research, much presented here for the first time. The book is divided into three parts examining Sasanian sites, settlements and landscapes; their complex agricultural resources; and their crafts and industries.
Download or read book Early Harappans and Indus Sarasvati Civilization written by Deo Prakash Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Download or read book South Asian Archaeology 1985 written by Karen Frifelt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arabia and Its Neighbours written by C. S. Phillips and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Arabian Studies R. Boucharlat, M. Mouton, Les pratiques funÉraires dans le pÉninsule d'Oman. RÉpartition et mode de construction des tombes de Mleiha ( E.A.U. ). G. de Ceuninck, Les PÉtroglyphes du Fujairah, Emirats Arabes Unis. H. Cleere, Beatrice de Cardi and the Council for British Archeology. H. Crawford, Tokens of Esteem. W. Dostal, On Stimulating Interdisciplinary Conversation between Anthropologists and Archeologists. E. Glover, Mangroves, Molluscs and Man. Archeological Evidence for Biogeographical Changes in Mangrove around the Arabian Peninsula. E. Haerinck, Petroglyphs at Sinadil in the Hajjar Mountains ( Southeast Arabia ). C. Hardy-Guilbert, Villages cÔtiers abandonnÉs du Qatar. D. Kennet, Evidence for 4th/5th-Century Sasanian Occupation at Khatt, Ras al-Khaimah. G. King, C. Tonghini, The Western Islands of Abu Dhabi Emirate. Notes on Ghgh. K.A. Kitchen, Three Sabaean Dedications: a Well and Three Statues. P. Lombard, Quand la tradition tue l'innovation: rÉflexions sur la glyptique de l'ge du Fer À Rumeilah ( E.A.U. ). S. MÉry, C. Phillips, Y. Calvet, Dilmun Pottery in Mesopotamia and Magan from the end of the 3rd and Beginning of the 2nd Millenium B.C. T.C. Mitchell, An Inscribed South Arabian Bronze Seal. P.R.S. Moorey, Did Easterners Sail round Arabia to Egypt in the Fourth Millenium B.C. ? D.T. Potts, Namord Ware in Southeastern Arabia. J. Reade, Assyrian Illustrations of Arabs. M. Rice, Beatrice de Cardi: an Appreciation. S. Searight, A Pilgrim Flask from Julfar ? C. Velde, The Dilmun Cemetery at Karanah 1 and the Change of Burial Customs in Late City II. C. Vita-Finzi, Ancient Shorelines of Oman and Qatar. B. Vogt, State, Problems and Perspectives of Second Millenium B.C. Funerary Studies in the Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah ( U.A.E. ). T.J. Wilkinson, Human Environment Interactions in the Highlands of Yemen.
Download or read book Forgotten Cities on the Indus written by Michael Jansen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Asian Archaeology written by Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. International Conference and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
