Roger Matthews, Hassan Fazeli Nashli

The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire (eBook, ePUB)

From the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Archaeology of Iran 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 652
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000570915
• Artikelnr.: 68424191

Autorenporträt

Roger Matthews is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading. He is President of RASHID International, and previously was Director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq and of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy and a Corresponding Fellow of the German Archaeological Institute. He has directed major field projects in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey for more than 35 years, and has published widely on the prehistory, archaeology and heritage of the Middle East. His current projects focus on early farming communities of Iran and Iraq, and on bureaucratic practices in early urban communities of the Middle East.

Hassan Fazeli Nashli is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Tehran. From 2005 to 2009 he was Director of the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the German Archaeological Institute. Since 1996 he has directed numerous international joint research projects and fieldwork with colleagues and universities from the USA, Germany, UK, Italy, Canada, Poland and China. He has conducted more than 25 years fieldwork in the central plateau and northern regions of Iran, with a focus on socio-economic transformations from the late Epipalaeolithic to the Iron Age. Since 2017 he has directed a multi-disciplinary project in Mazandaran province of northern Iran in order to investigate long-term human-environment interactions through the Early and Middle Holocene.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Archaeology of Early Iran: Perspectives from the past for the Present; 2. Placing Iran: Land
Environment and Ecology; 3. Approaching the past of Iran: A History of Archaeological Investigation; 4. Peopling Iran: The Palaeolithic Period
500
000-12
000 BP; 5. Domesticating Iran: The Neolithic Period
10
000-5200 BC; 6. Early Social Complexity in Iran: The Chalcolithic Period
5200-3200 BC; 7. Iran's First State? The Proto-elamite Horizon
3200-2900 BC; 8. People on the Move: Prehistoric Networks of Bronze Age Iran
3400-1100 BC; 9. Iran Beyond Borders: Bronze Age Societies of Eastern Iran
3100-1250 BC; 10. Elam in the World of Bronze Age Southwest Asia
2900-1100 BC; 11. Iran Imperial: Villages
Cities
States and Empires of the Iron Age
1250-330 BC; 12. Themes and Issues in the Archaeology of Early Iran