Elamite and Achaemenid settlement on the Deh Lurān Plain : towns and villages of the early empires in southwestern Iran /

• Other Authors: Wright, Henry T., (Henry Tutwiler) 1943- (ed.), Neely, James A. (ed.), Hole, Frank
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, 2010.
• Series: Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; 47
• Subjects: YACIMIENTO ARQUEOLOGICO; EDAD ANTIGUA > (559-330 aC); ANTROPOLOGIA; CERAMICA; ARQUEOLOGIA; IRAN

Table of 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 early dynastic III phase
• The Šimaški phase
• The Sukkalmahu 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 later early dynastic phase
• The Šimaški phase
• The Sukkalmahu 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 : 2600-325 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 / 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.