Prehistoric Settlement Patterns And Cultures In Susiana Southwestern Iran
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Prehistoric Settlement Patterns and Cultures in Susiana Southwestern Iran
Author | : Abbas Alizadeh |
Publsiher | : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780915703296 |
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Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain Southwestern Iran
Author | : Abbas Alizadeh,Loghman Ahmadzadeh,Mehdi Omidfar,John R. Alden,Leah Minc |
Publsiher | : Oriental Inst Publications Sales |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 188592397X |
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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.
Investigating Archaeological Cultures
Author | : Benjamin W. Roberts,Marc Vander Linden |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2011-06-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781441969705 |
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Defining "culture" is an important step in undertaking archaeological research. Any thorough study of a particular culture first has to determine what that culture contains-- what particular time period, geographic region, and group of people make up that culture. The study of archaeology has many accepted definitions of particular cultures, but recently these accepted definitions have come into question. As archaeologists struggle to define cultures, they also seek to define the components of culture. This volume brings together 21 international case studies to explore the meaning of "culture" for regions around the globe and periods from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age and beyond. Taking lessons and overarching themes from these studies, the contributors draw important conclusions about cultural transmission, technology development, and cultural development. The result is a comprehensive model for approaching the study of culture, broken down into regions (Russia, Continental Europe, North America, Britain, and Africa), materials (Lithics, Ceramics, Metals) and time periods. This work will be valuable to all archaeologists and cultural anthropologists, particularly those studying material culture.
Nomadism in Iran
Author | : D. T. Potts |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2014-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199330805 |
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The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern archaeologists have envisaged it. Nomadism in Iran recasts our understanding of this "timeless" tradition. Far from constituting a natural adaptation on the Iranian Plateau, nomadism is a comparatively late introduction, which can only be understood within the context of certain political circumstances. Since the early Holocene, most, if not all, agricultural communities in Iran had kept herds of sheep and goat, but the communities themselves were sedentary: only a few of their members were required to move with the herds seasonally. Though the arrival of Iranian speaking groups, attested in written sources beginning in the time of Herodutus, began to change the demography of the plateau, it wasn't until later in the eleventh century that an influx of Turkic speaking Oghuz nomadic groups-"true" nomads of the steppe-began the modification of the demography of the Iranian Plateau that accelerated with the Mongol conquest. The massive, unprecedented violence of this invasion effected the widespread distribution of largely Turkic-speaking nomadic groups across Iran. Thus, what has been interpreted in the past as an enduring pattern of nomadic land use is, by archaeological standards, very recent. Iran's demographic profile since the eleventh century AD, and more particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth century, has been used by some scholars as a proxy for ancient social organization. Nomadism in Iran argues that this modernist perspective distorts the historical reality of the land. Assembling a wealth of material in several languages and disciplines, Nomadism in Iran will be invaluable to archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians of the Middle East and Central Asia.
From Sherds to Landscapes
Author | : Mark Altaweel,Carrie Hritz |
Publsiher | : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781614910640 |
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This volume honors McGuire Gibson and his years of service to archaeology of Mesopotamia, Yemen, and neighboring regions. Professor Gibson spent most of his career at the University of Chicago's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department and the Oriental Institute. Many of his students, colleagues, and friends have contributed to this volume, reflecting Gibson's diverse interests. The volume presents new results in areas such as landscape archaeology, urbanism, the ancient languages of Mesopotamia, history of Mesopotamia, the archaeology of Iran and Yemen, prehistory, material culture, and wider archaeological topics.
The Archaeology of Mobility
Author | : Hans Barnard,Willeke Wendrich |
Publsiher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2008-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781938770388 |
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There have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide collection of studies of the archaeology of mobility. This book provides a ready-made reference to this worldwide phenomenon and is unique in that it tries to redefine pastoralism within a larger context by the term mobility. It presents many new ideas and thoughtful approaches, especially in the Central Asian region.
Early Settlement and Irrigation on the Deh Luran Plain
Author | : James A. Neely,Henry T. Wright |
Publsiher | : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Deh Luran Plain (Iran) |
ISBN | : 9780915703364 |
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The Archaeology of Elam
Author | : D. T. Potts |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107094697 |
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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.