Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran

Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran
Author :
Publisher : Oriental Inst Publications Sales
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 188592397X
ISBN-13 : 9781885923974
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran by : Abbas Alizadeh

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.


Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran Related Books

Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Abbas Alizadeh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oriental Inst Publications Sales

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns and Cultures in Susiana, Southwestern Iran
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: Abbas Alizadeh
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-01-01 - Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Elamite World
Language: en
Pages: 973
Authors: Javier Álvarez-Mon
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-29 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Amongst the civilizations to participate in the dynamic processes of contact and interchange that gave rise to complex societies in the ancient Near East, Elam
The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire
Language: en
Pages: 1239
Authors: Roger Matthews
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-30 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 ar
Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 816
Authors: Ralph Haussler
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-31 - Publisher: Oxbow Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is