Download or read book The 2003 Excavations at Tol e Ba i Iran written by Susan Pollock and published by Philipp Von Zabern Verlag Gmbh. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by the Series Editor; Preface: The genesis of the Fars Archaeology Project, by Kamyar Abdi; Goals of the excavations, by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, and Kamyar Abd; Notes on the physical and human geography of the Eastern Ramjerd Plain, by Saman Heydari and Reinhard Bernbeck; Surface survey at Tol-e Bai, by Reinhard Bernbeck; Excavation and site stratigraphy, by Susan Pollock; The Neolithic pottery, by Reinhard Bernbeck; Bakun pottery, by Reinhard Bernbeck, Hamid Fahimi and Nassim Janmaleki; Chipped stone artifacts, by Elham Ghasidian, Ahmad Azadi and Susan Pollock; A microwear study of chipped stone tools, by Melody Pope; Miniature cylindrical objects, by Susan Pollock; Small finds, by Mohsen Javeri, Kamyar Abdi and Reinhard Bernbeck; Grinding and pounding implements, by Fariba Saeedi and Susan Pollock; Burnt clay, by Reinhard Bernbeck and Michael Gregg; Burnt stone, by Susan Pollock and Saman Heydari; Animal bones, by Marjan Mashkour, with contributions of Salvador Bailon; Macrobotanical remains, by Masoumeh Kimiaie; Phytolith analysis, by Anies Hassan; Microdebris analysis, by Sepideh Saeedi; Organic residue analysis, by Michael Gregg; Radiocarbon dates, by Susan Pollock; A survey of rockshelters near Tol-e Bai, by Saman Heydari; Ethnoarchaeological observations at Ahmadabad in the south-central Zagros mountains, by Ahmad Azadi; Neolithic Worlds at Tol-e Bai, by Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck; Summary; Bibliography; Persian summary.
Download or read book The Earliest Neolithic of Iran 2008 Excavations at Sheikh E Abad and Jani written by Wendy Matthews and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene (c. 13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspects of life. These Neolithic developments took place over vast chronological and geographical scales, with considerable regional variability in specific trajectories of change. Two vital and consistent aspects of change were a shift from mobile to sedentary lifestyles and increasingly intensive human management of animal and plant resources, leading to full domestication of particular species. Building on earlier campaigns of archaeological investigation, the current phase of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project is designed to explore these issues in one key region, the Zagros zone including central west Iran. Two Early Neolithic mounds were excavated: Sheikh-e Abad in the high Zagros and Jani, in the foothills of the Mesopotamian plains, each comprising up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating occupation spanning over 2000 years, and providing great scope for diachronic and spatial analyses. These two sites make major contributions to knowledge regarding the origins of sedentism and increasing resource management in Southwest Asia, and associated developments in social, cultural and ritual practices in this formative region of human cultural development.
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 Excavations at Shah Tep Iran written by Ture Algot Johnsson Arne and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iranian Expanse written by Matthew P. Canepa and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies. Investigating over a thousand years of history, from the Achaemenid period to the arrival of Islam, The Iranian Expanse argues that Iranian identities were built and shaped not by royal discourse alone, but by strategic changes to Western Asia’s cities, sanctuaries, palaces, and landscapes. The Iranian Expanse critically examines the construction of a new Iranian royal identity and empire, which subsumed and subordinated all previous traditions, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Anatolia. It then delves into the startling innovations that emerged after Alexander under the Seleucids, Arsacids, Kushans, Sasanians, and the Perso-Macedonian dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, a previously understudied and misunderstood period. Matthew P. Canepa elucidates the many ruptures and renovations that produced a new royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, Ottomans, and Mughals.
Download or read book American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavations at Haft Tepe Iran written by ʻIzzat Allāh Nigāhbān and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1991 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient remains at Haft Tepe (the ancient name of the site is unknown) lie on the plain of Khuzistan in southwestern Iran close to the ruins of ancient Susa. Excavations under the directorship of Ezat Negahban and under the auspices of the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Art were conducted from 1969 through 1979. This volume contains extensive information one excavation and the architectural remains, and includes a catalogue of the artifacts. Of special interest are the many seal impressions. University Museum Monograph, 70
Download or read book Iran written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include the Director's report, 1961/62-
Download or read book The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire written by Roger Matthews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 1239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early history of all of Iran from the Palaeolithic period to the end of the Achaemenid Empire at 330 BC. Drawing on the authors’ deep experience and engagement in the world of Iranian archaeology, and in particular on Iran-based academic networks and collaborations, this book situates the archaeological evidence from Iran within a framework of issues and debates of relevance today. Such topics include human–environment interactions, climate change and societal fragility, the challenges of urban living, individual and social identity, gender roles and status, the development of technology and craft specialisation and the significance of early bureaucratic practices such as counting, writing and sealing within the context of evolving societal formations. Richly adorned with more than 500 illustrations, many of them in colour, and accompanied by a bibliography with more than 3000 entries, this book will be appreciated as a major research resource for anyone concerned to learn more about the role of ancient Iran in shaping the modern world.
Download or read book Excavations at Tepe Yahya Iran 1967 1969 written by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky and published by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department. This book was released on 1970 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavations at Ghubayr Iran written by A. D. H. Bivar and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the final report of four seasons' excavations, sponsored by the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research, at the medium-sized Iranian township of Ghubayra, near Kirman. Ghubayra lies at the crossing of the Caliphal eastern highway from the head of the Persian Gulf to Sistan and Sind, and of the routes from Kirman City to Jiruft and the Gulf seaports around Old Hormuz.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Elam written by D. T. Potts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence. It brings to life one of the most important regions of ancient Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places it in the context of the most recent archaeological and historical scholarship.
Download or read book Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain Southwestern Iran written by Abbas Alizadeh and published by Oriental Inst Publications Sales. This book was released on 2014 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a decade-long hiatus in the years of World War II, archaeological fieldwork was resumed in Iran in 1948. In that year, the Oriental Institute returned to its long tradition of archaeological research by sending Donald McCown to the lowlands of southwestern Iran to conduct a series of surface surveys to find a multi-period site for excavation. For his survey, McCown chose the Ram Hormuz region, southeast of lowland Susiana and the region south and east of the provincial town of Ahvaz down to the Persian Gulf. McCown recorded 118 sites in the Ram Hormuz and Ahvaz areas and eventually chose for excavation the large prehistoric mound complex Tall-e Geser. Three months of excavation in 1948 and 1949 yielded materials that were kept in Chicago for many years. Apart from short articles, the site was never fully published. In Part 1 of this two-part volume, Abbas Alizadeh and colleagues have undertaken a final publication of the site. This task was undertaken because of a number of important considerations. First, the excavations at Geser have been cited as justifying the division of the Uruk period in southwestern Iran into Early, Middle, and Late phases. Second, Geser remains the only systematically excavated site in the Ram Hormuz region - a strategic location between the Susiana and Mesopotamian alluvium and the Zagros highlands of southwestern Iran. Third, Geser has produced a very extensive body of archaeological materials dating to the comparatively less understood proto-Elamite period, roughly the first few centuries of the third millennium bc. And finally, with the exception of a 700-800-year gap following the proto-Elamite phase, Geser remains one of the only sites in the Near East to have a very long and generally uninterrupted depositional sequence, in this case spanning from the fifth millennium BC to the Safavid period. The site's crucial location, its importance in the archaeological literature, and its long stratigraphic sequence made it imperative that the original excavation results from Geser be published in anticipation of a time when the site can be re-excavated. Part 2 of this volume presents the results of regional surveys conducted in the Ram Hormuz plain from 2005 to 2008, which were undertaken by Alizadeh and colleagues with the goal of understanding the semi-nomadic, mobile component of lowland Susiana and its hinterlands through time.
Download or read book The New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar Iran written by Ayşe Gursan-Salzmann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tepe Hissar is a large Bronze Age site in northeastern Iran notable for its uninterrupted occupational history from the fifth to the second millennium B.C.E. The quantity and elaborateness of its excavated artifacts and funerary customs position the site prominently as a cultural bridge between Mesopotamia and Central Asia. To address questions of synchronic and diachronic nature relating to the changing levels of socioeconomic complexity in the region and across the greater Near East, chronological clarity is required. While Erich Schmidt's 1931-32 excavations for the Penn Museum established the historical framework at Tepe Hissar, it was Robert H. Dyson, Jr., and his team's follow-up work in 1976 that presented a stratigraphically clearer sequence for the site with associated radiocarbon dates. Until now, however, a full study of the site's ceramic assemblages has not been published. This monograph brings to final publication a stratigraphically based chronology for the Early Bronze Age settlement at Tepe Hissar. Based on a full study of the ceramic assemblages excavated from radiocarbon-dated occupational phases in 1976 by Dyson and his team, and linked to Schmidt's earlier ceramic sequence that was derived from a large corpus of grave contents, a new chronological framework for Tepe Hissar and its region is established. This clarified sequence provides ample evidence for the nature of the evolution and the abandonment of the site, and its chronological correlations on the northern Iranian plateau, situating it in time and space between Turkmenistan and Bactria on the one hand and Mesopotamia on the other.
Download or read book Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period written by Kamal-Aldin Niknami and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty-eight essays presents an up-to-date survey of pre-Islamic Iran, from the earliest dynasty of Illam to the end of Sasanian empire, encompassing a rich diversity of peoples and cultures. Historically, Iran served as a bridge between the earlier Near Eastern cultures and the later classical world of the Mediterranean, and had a profound influence on political, military, economic, and cultural aspects of the ancient world. Written by international scholars and drawing mainly on the field of practical archaeology, which traditionally has shared little in the way of theories and methods, the book provides crucial pieces to the puzzle of the national identity of Iranian cultures from a historical perspective. Revealing the wealth and splendor of ancient Iranian society – its rich archaeological data and sophisticated artistic craftsmanship – most of which has never before been presented outside of Iran, this beautifully illustrated book presents a range of studies addressing specific aspects of Iranian archaeology to show why the artistic masterpieces of ancient Iranians rank among the finest ever produced. Together, the authors analyze how archaeology can inform us about our cultural past, and what remains to still be discovered in this important region.
Download or read book Excavations at Tepe Yahya Iran written by Clifford C. Lamberg-Karlovsky and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavations at Shah tep Iran written by T. J. (Tura Johnsson) Arne and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
