New Data at Open Context: Chogha Mish Fauna

Chogha Mish Fauna

This project uses the publicly available dataset of over 30,000 animal bone specimens from excavations at Chogha Mish, Iran during the 1960s and 1970s.The specimens were identified by Jane Wheeler Pires-Ferreira in the 1960s and though she never analyzed the data or produced a report, her identifications were saved and later transferred to punch cards and then to Excel. This 'orphan' dataset was made available on the web in 2008 by Abbas Alizadeh (University of Chicago) at the time of his publication of Chogha Mish, Volume II.

The site of Chogha Mish spans the time period from Archaic through Elamite periods, with also later Achaemenid occupation.  These phases subdived further into several subphases, and some of those chronological divisions are also represented in this dataset. Thus the timespan present begins at the mid-seventh millennium and continues into the third millennium B.C.E. In terms of cultural development in the region, these periods are key, spanning the later Neolithc (after the period of caprid and cattle domestication, but possibly during the eras in which pigs and horses were domesticated) through the development of truly settled life, cities, supra-regional trade and even the early empires or state societies of Mesopotamia and Iran...

Projects in Open Context

Project	Description	Primary People	Keywords
Chogha Mish Fauna	Zooarchaeological observations from Prehistoric and Achaemenid levels at Chogha Mish, Iran.	Levent Atici, Justin S.E. Lev-Tov, Sarah Whitcher Kansa	Zooarchaeology, subsistence, economy, Early Bronze Age, Iranian Plateau, Elamite
Khirbat al-Mudayna al-Aliya	Investigations of an Early Iron Age site in a semi-arid zone in west-central Jordan	Bruce Routledge, Benjamin Porter	pastoralism, economy, agriculture, Southern Levant, Semi-Arid, Kerak Plateau, Jordan, Iron I, Early Iron Age, subsistence
Dove Mountain Groundstone	Analysis of groundstone finds from the Dove Mountain Project in the Tucson Basin	Jenny Adams	Southwest, Pioneer Period, Sedentary Period, Hohokam, Early Agricultural, Groundstone, Arizona, Archaeology
Bade Museum	Tell en-Nasbeh Collection at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology	Aaron Brody	Israel, Palestine, Southern Levant, Judah, Near East, Biblical Archaeology, Archaeology, Iron Age, 1st Millennium, 4th Millennium, Early Bronze, Town, Tomb, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine
San Diego Archaeological Center	Collections maintained by the San Diego Archaeological Center	San Diego Archaeological Center	historical archaeology, San Diego, California, Spanish colonial, Mexican, finds catalog, education, cultural resource management, archaeological collections
Presidio of San Francisco	Ongoing investigations of El Presidio de San Francisco and other archaeological resources at the Presidio of San Francisco	Presidio Archaeology Lab (Presidio Trust)	historical archaeology, presidio, San Francisco, California, Spanish colonial, Mexican, US Army, education
Aegean Archaeomalacology	Mollusk Shells in Troia, Yenibademli, and Ulucak: An Archaeomalacological Approach to Environment and Economy in the Aegean	Canan Çakırlar	Anatolia, Aegean, bronze age, chalcolithic, mollusks, Archaeomalacology, subsistence, economy, environment
Petra Great Temple Excavations	Brown University Excavations at the Great Temple of Petra, Jordan	Martha Sharp Joukowsky	Religion, Hellenistic, Jordan, Roman, Roman Empire, Archaeology, Architecture, Nabateans, Nabatean, Petra
Iraq Heritage Program	Overview of the Global Heritage Fund's conservation work in Iraq	Global Heritage Fund, Alexandria Archive Institute	Meopotamia, Cultural Heritage, Conservation, Assyria, Sumer, Babylonia, Documentation, Sumer, Archaeology, Iron Age, Early Bronze Age, Early Dynastic, World Heritage
Lake Carlos Beach Site, 1992 and 1996	Descriptions and provenience information for 7837 artifacts	State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, Minnesota State Parks Cultural Resource Management Program staff, State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation
Corneal Ulceration in South East Asia	Epidemiology and Etiology of Corneal Ulcers in South India	Mathuiah Srinivasan, John P. Whitcher	ophthalmology, India, public health, infections disease, eye, public health, developing world
Harvard Peabody Mus. Zooarchaeology	Harvard Peabody Museum Zooarchaeology Laboratory Reference Collection	Richard Meadow, Levent Atici	archaeology, reference collection, zoology, zooarchaeology, archaeology, specimen, bone
Hazor: Zooarchaeology	Zooarchaeological observations for Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Hazor, Israel	Justin Lev-Tov	archaeology, Iron Age, Late Bronze Age, Near East, Excavations, Hazor, Biblical archaeology, subsistence
Hayonim: Micromorphology		Paul Goldberg	archaeology, Mousterian, geology, Middle Paleolithic, Kebaran, Epi-Paleolithic, Israel, Levant, Micromorphology, Geology, Cave, Deposition
Geissenklosterle: Micromorphology		Paul Goldberg	archaeology, Aurignation, geology, Upper Paleolithic, Europe, Germany
Pınarbaşı 1994: Animal Bones	Analysis of faunal remains from prehistoric contexts at Pınarbaşı in central Turkey	Denise Carruthers	archaeology, Epi-Paleolithic, Neolithic, Near East, Anatolia, Turkey, zooarchaeology, Pinarbasi, 9th millennium, agriculture, foraging, hunting
Domuztepe Excavations	Excavations of a Late Neolithic site in south-central Turkey	Stuart Campbell, Elizabeth Carter	Archaeology, Halaf, Neolithic, Near East, Excavations, Domuztepe, 7th millennium, Village

See also Open Access Projects: The Alexandria Archive Institute