Studies in the Archeological History of the Deh Luran Plain

Studies in the Archeological History of the Deh Luran Plain

Author: Frank Hole

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1949098435

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In 1968 and 1969, Frank Hole directed the excavation of Chagha Sefid, a prehistoric site on the Deh Luran plain in Iran occupied from about 7000 to 3500 BC. This volume contains an analysis of the architecture, burials, and artifacts uncovered on the site. Contributions by M. J. Kirkby and Colin Renfrew.


Elamite and Achaemenid Settlement on the Deh Luran Plain

Elamite and Achaemenid Settlement on the Deh Luran Plain

Author: Henry T. Wright

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0915703726

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The Deh Luran Plain, nestled in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains close to the modern border between Iraq and Iran, had a long and rich prehistory, beginning with the local development of villages dependent upon rainfall farming and herding in the 8th millennium BC. This volume continues the account of the plain from the later 3rd millennium BC to the middle of the 1st millennium BC. It contains detailed site maps and descriptions, aerial and satellite images of major sites, statistics and drawings of ceramics, and discussions of the historical sources.


An Early Town on the Deh Luran Plain

An Early Town on the Deh Luran Plain

Author: Henry T. Wright

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 0932206875

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The site of Tepe Farukhabad, in southwestern Iran, dates to the fourth millenium BC. In this monograph, editor Henry T. Wright presents archaeological data from the Tepe Farukhabad excavations. For each phase of the site, the authors give detailed descriptions of the structures and artifacts, including ceramics, stone, bone, metal, textile, and faunal remains. With his interpretation of this data, Wright advances our understanding of early exchange in southwest Asia and of development of early states.


Early Settlement and Irrigation on the Deh Luran Plain

Early Settlement and Irrigation on the Deh Luran Plain

Author: James A. Neely

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 091570336X

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The Deh Luran Plain is a microcosm of Mesopotamia and important for the study of a variety of processes in cultural evolution. In this volume (the first of three planned on this project), the authors present a detailed archaeological survey covering periods from the earliest occupation of the plain up to the mid-third millennium BC.


Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain

Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain

Author: Frank Hole

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1949098478

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In the early 1960s, archaeologists Frank Hole, Kent V. Flannery, and James A. Neely surveyed the prehistoric mounds in Deh Luran and then excavated at two sites: Ali Kosh and Tepe Sabz. The researchers found evidence that the sites dated to between 7500 and 3500 BC, during which time the residents domesticated plants and animals. This volume, published in 1969, was the first in the Museum’s Memoir series—designed for data-rich, heavily illustrated archaeological monographs.


Susa and Elam. Archaeological, Philological, Historical and Geographical Perspectives

Susa and Elam. Archaeological, Philological, Historical and Geographical Perspectives

Author: Katrien De Graef

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-12-03

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9004207414

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In December 2009, an international congress was held at Ghent University in order to investigate, exactly 20 years after the 36th RAI “Mésopotamie et Elam”, the present state of our knowledge of the Elamite and Susean society from archaeological, philological, historical and geographical points of view. The multidisciplinary character of this congress illustrates the present state of research in the socio-economic, historical and political developments of the Suso-Elamite region from prehistoric times until the great Persian Empire. Because of its strategically important location between the Mesopotamian alluvial plain and the Iranian highlands and its particular interest as point of contact between civilizations, Susa and Elam were of utmost importance for the history of the ancient Near East in general.


The Archaeology of Elam

The Archaeology of Elam

Author: D. T. Potts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-07-29

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780521564960

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From the middle of the 3rd millennium BC until the coming of Cyrus the Great, southwestern Iran was referred to in Mesopotamian sources as the land of Elam. A heterogeneous collection of regions, Elam was home to a variety of groups, alternately the object of Mesopotamian aggression, and aggressors themselves; an ethnic group seemingly swallowed up by the vast Achaemenid Persian empire, yet a force strong enough to attack Babylonia in the last centuries BC. The Elamite language is attested as late as the Medieval era, and the name Elam as late as 1300 in the records of the Nestorian church. This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence, and brings to life one of the most important regions of Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places it in the context of the most recent archaeological and historical scholarship.