Iran
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content: Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
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content: Patty Jo Watson papers
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content: Patty Jo Watson papers / Series 1: Research / 1.2: The Near East
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content: 1956-1980
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Watson's work in western Iran was ethnographic, involving a study of one Laki and two Kurdish villages between October 1959 and June 1960. Her purpose in performing the study was ethnoarchaeological: she wanted to record the subsistence and technological methods used in the communities and find correlations between material culture and behavior as well as architecture and settlement patterns in order to provide a collection of data from which archaeologists studying prehistoric peoples living in similar geographic and cultural contexts could formulate hypotheses. She did not use the names of the communities in her work, instead renaming them Hasanabad, Shirdasht, and Ain Ali. Watson published her work in Iran in Patty Jo Watson, Archaeological Ethnology in Western Iran, Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 57 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1979). This section includes correspondence, tables and diagrams, manuscript drafts, illustrations, and maps.