Iran
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The Early Upper Paleolithic Occupation at Ghar-e Boof Cave: A Reconstruction of Cultural Tradition in the Outhern Zagros Mountains of Iran [Hardback]
Elham Ghasidian (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9783935751186
Published by : Kerns Verlag
Series: Tübingen Publications on the Archaeology of Southwestern Asia
Between 2005 and 2007 researchers from the Tübingen Iranian Stone Age Research Project (TISARP) conducted fieldwork at the cave of Ghār-e Boof on the edge of the Dasht-e Rostam in the southwestern Zagros. In this book Elham Ghasidian presents the ... .... Learn More -
A City from the Dawn of History: Erbil in the Cuneiform Sources [Paperback]
John MacGinnis (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782977971
Published by : Oxbow Books
The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which made it a natural gateway bet... .... Learn More -
The Proto-Elamite Settlement and Its Neighbors: Tepe Yaya Period IVC [Hardback]
Benjamin Mutin (Author); C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782974192
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph
The site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other important aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). The material culture of Period IVC is not exclusively limited to its Proto-Elamite component,... .... Learn More -
Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions in the 4th Millennium BC [Hardback]
Cameron A. Petrie (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782972273
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monograph Series
Volume: 3
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... .... Learn More -
The Neolithisation of Iran [Paperback]
Roger Matthews (Editor); Hassan Fazeli Nashli (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782971900
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: BANEA monograph Series
Volume: 3
The period c. 10,000-5000 BC witnessed fundamental changes in the human condition with societies across the Fertile Crescent shifting their alignment from millennia-old practices of seasonally mobile hunting and foraging to year-round sedentism, p... .... Learn More -
The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-E Abad and Jani [Hardback]
Roger Matthews (Editor); Wendy Matthews (Editor); Yaghoub Mohammadifar (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782972235
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monograph Series
Volume: 4
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 ... .... Learn More -
Nishapur Revisited: Stratigraphy and Ceramics of the Qohandez [Hardback]
Rocco Rante (Author); Annabelle Collinet (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842174944
Published by : Oxbow Books
Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its position providing links to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and the west. Despite previous excavations there are many unresolved questions surrounding... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book [Hardback]
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597490
Published by : Pindar Press
Volume: 3
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period, Iran dominated the art of ... .... Learn More -
Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture [Hardback]
Daniel M. Friedenberg (Author)
Regular Price: £36.00
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ISBN: 9780252033674
Published by : University of Illinois Press
This volume presents fifty-seven Jewish seals from the Sasanian Empire, as well as comparative seals and other Sasanian artefacts. The text identifies their provenance (if known), translates their inscriptions, and organizes them by their depi... .... Learn More -
Siraf: History, Topography and Environment [Hardback]
Cameron A. Petrie (Author); David Whitehouse (Author); Donald Whitcomb (Author); T. J. Wilkinson (Author)
£48.00ISBN: 9781842173947
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monograph Series
Volume: 1
Between 1966 and 1973, the British Institute of Persian Studies conducted seven seasons of excavation and survey at Siraf, which was a major city on the Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf that played a leading role in the network of maritime tra... .... Learn More
