THE IRANIAN PLATEAU DURING THE BRONZE AGE: Development of urbanisation, production and trade.

THE IRANIAN PLATEAU DURING THE BRONZE AGE: Development of urbanisation, production and trade.

Jan-Waalke Meyer, Emmanuelle Vila, Marjan Mashkour, Michèle Casanova et Régis Vallet (dir.)

Archéologie(s)

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L’ouvrage rassemble une partie des contributions présentées lors du colloque «Urbanisation, commerce, subsistance et production au iii^e millénaire avant J.-C. sur le Plateau iranien» qui s’est tenu à la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée à Lyon les 29 et 30 avril 2014. Les vingt articles réunis livrent un état récent de la recherche archéologique dans cette région du Moyen‑Orient pour l’âge du Bronze. Le développement socio-économique entre le mode de vie rural et la formation des vi...

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Note de l’éditeur

Cover art: © Nasir Eskandari.

• Éditeur : MOM Éditions
 
• Collection : Archéologie(s) | 1
 
• Lieu d’édition : Lyon
 
• Année d’édition : 2019
 
• Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 19 mars 2020
 
• Nombre de pages : 356 p.

mmanuelle Vila, Marjan Mashkour, Michèle Casanova et al.

Preface

The global context of the Bronze Age on the Iranian Plateau

Jan-Waalke Meyer

Early urbanisation in Iran

A view from the west – some considerations about the theory of urbanisation

Expansion of the Kura-Araxes culture in Iran

Giulio Palumbi

The expansion of the Kura‑Araxes culture in Iran: what role for the Uruk?

Sepideh Maziar

Iran and the Kura-Araxes cultural tradition, so near and yet so far

Alexia Decaix, Fatemeh Azadeh Mohaseb, Sepideh Maziar et al.

Subsistence economy in Kohneh Pasgah Tepesi (eastern Azerbaijan, Iran) during the Late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age based on the faunal and botanical remains

Alexia Decaix, Rémi Berthon, Fatemeh Azadeh Mohaseb et al.

Toward a definition of the Kura-Araxes agropastoral systems

Elamite Kingdom

Alain Le Brun

Susa at the turn of the 4th and 3rd millennia

Ali Zalaghi

An overview of the settlement patterns of Susa III period in the Upper Khuzestan

Archaeological survey in the western bank of the Karkheh river

Alireza Sardari et Samira Attarpour

From the Proto-Elamite to Shimashki: the third millennium BC at Tappeh Senjar, the Susiana Plain

Elnaz Rashidian

In search of cities in Elam. For a geoarchaeological approach to the toponym-hydronym interaction

Urbanisation in Eastern Iran

Julie Bessenay-Prolonge et Régis Vallet

Tureng Tepe and its high terrace, a reassessment

Ali A. Vahdati, Raffaele Biscione, Riccardo La Farina et al.

Preliminary report on the first season of excavations at Tepe Chalow

New GKC (BMAC) finds in the plain of Jajarm, NE Iran

Nasir Eskandari

Regional patterns of Early Bronze Age urbanization in the southeastern Iran

New discoveries on the western fringe of Dasht‑e Lut

David M.P. Meier

A pyrotechnological installation from the “metallurgical workshop” at Shahdad and its next geographical and chronological comparisons

Production and trade

Mina Dabbagh

The contribution of women to trade and production in Elam society

Henri-Paul Francfort

Iran and Central Asia

The Grand’Route of Khorasan (Great Khorasan Road) during the third millennium BC and the “dark stone” artefacts

Holly Pittman

Bronze Age interaction on the Iranian Plateau

From Kerman to the Oxus through seals

Sedigheh Piran

Prestige objects in South East of Iran during the Bronze Age in the National Museum of Iran

Michèle Casanova

Exchanges and trade during the Bronze Age in Iran

Babak Rafiei-Alavi

The biography of a dagger type

The diachronic transformation of the daggers with the crescent-shaped guard

The transition to Iron Age

Hamid Fahimi

The Bronze Age and the Iron Age on the Central Iranian Plateau

Two successive cultures or the appearance of a new culture?

Conclusion

Jan‑Waalke Meyer, Emmanuelle Vila, Régis Vallet et al.

The urbanisation of the Iranian Plateau and adjacent areas during the Bronze Age

Concluding thoughts