Elamite and Achaemenid settlement on the Deh Lurān Plain : towns and villages of the early empires in southwestern Iran / edited by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely ; with a preface by Frank Hole ; and contributions by Elizabeth Carter ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, H. T. (Henry T.)

Neely, James A.

Carter, Elizabeth, 1943-

Series:

Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; no. 47.

Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canals.

History.

Land settlement patterns.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Pottery, Ancient.

Villages.

Cities and towns, Ancient.

Deh Luran Plain (Iran)--Antiquities.

Deh Luran Plain (Iran).

Elam--Antiquities.

Elam.

Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C.

Achaemenid dynasty.

Deh Luran Plain (Iran)--History, Local.

Cities and towns, Ancient--Iran--Deh Luran Plain.

Villages--Iran--Deh Luran Plain--History.

Pottery, Ancient--Iran--Deh Luran Plain.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Iran--Deh Luran Plain.

Land settlement patterns--Iran--Deh Luran Plain.

Canals--Iran--Deh Luran Plain--History.

Iran--Deh Luran Plain.

Physical Description:

xi, 131 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction / by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely

The dynamics of states and empires in early historic Mesopotamia

Geography of the Deh Lurān Plain

A brief history of archaeological research on the Deh Lurān Plain

Plan of the present work

Research design and methods / by James A. Neely

Ceramic phase indicators in surface assemblages / by Elizabeth Carter and Henry T. Wright

The later early dynastic phase

The Šimaški phase

The Sukkalmahhu and middle Elamite phases

The neo-Elamite and Achaemenid phases

The archaeological sites and their interpretation / by James A. Neely and Henry T. Wright

Early historic settlement patterns on the Deh Lurān Plain / by Henry T. Wright

The Sukkalmahhu phase

The earlier middle Elamite phase

The later middle Elamite phase

The neo-Elamite phase

The Achaemenid phase

Water management during the later early dynastic, Elamite, and Achaemenid periods on the Deh Lurān Plain / by James A. Neely

Textual documentation of the Deh Lurān Plain : 2550-325 B.C.

The mid-late third millennium B.C. on the Deh Lurān Plain / by Piotr Michalowski and Henry T. Wright

The early to mid-second millennium B.C. / by Henry T. Wright

The early first millennium B.C. / by Pierre de Miroschedji and Henry T. Wright

The mid-first millennium B.C. / by Henry T. Wright

A land between : reflections on early historic Deh Lurān / by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely

Deh Lurān in the trans-regional context

Transforming water management and food production on the Deh Lurān Plain

Reorienting the Deh Lurān settlements around corridors of communication

The implications of this survey for future archaeological work

Appendix A: Counts of artifacts in survey collections

Appendix B: Archaeological sites on the Deh Lurān Plain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-131)

ISBN:

9780915703722

0915703726

OCLC:

613993557