Elamite and Achaemenid settlement on the Deh Lurān Plain
Subtitle: towns and villages of the early empires in southwestern Iran
By: edited by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely ; with a preface by Frank Hole ; and contributions by Elizabeth Carter ... [et al.].
Series: Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan -- no. 47
Publisher: University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780915703722
Subjects: Antiquities; Local History; Ancient Cities and towns; Villages; History; Ancient Pottery; Excavations (Archaeology); Land settlement patterns; Canals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-131)
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely; title: The dynamics of states and empires in early historic Mesopotamia; title: Geography of the Deh Lurān Plain; title: A brief history of archaeological research on the Deh Lurān Plain; title: Plan of the present work; title: Research design and methods / by James A. Neely; title: Ceramic phase indicators in surface assemblages / by Elizabeth Carter and Henry T. Wright; title: The early dynastic III phase; title: The Šimaški phase; title: The Sukkalmahu and middle Elamite phases; title: The neo-Elamite and Achaemenid phases; title: The archaeological sites and their interpretation / by James A. Neely and Henry T. Wright; title: Early historic settlement patterns on the Deh Lurān Plain / by Henry T. Wright; title: The later early dynastic phase; title: The Šimaški phase; title: The Sukkalmahu phase; title: The earlier middle Elamite phase; title: The later middle Elamite phase; title: The neo-Elamite phase; title: The Achaemenid phase; title: Water management during the later early dynastic, Elamite, and Achaemenid periods on the Deh Lurān Plain / by James A. Neely; title: Textual documentation of the Deh Lurān Plain : 2600-325 B.C.; title: The mid-late third millennium B.C. on the Deh Lurān Plain / by Piotr Michalowski and Henry T. Wright; title: The early to mid-second millennium / by Henry T. Wright; title: The early first millennium B.C. / by Pierre de Miroschedji and Henry T. Wright; title: The mid-first millennium B.C. / by Henry T. Wright; title: A land between : reflections on early historic Deh Lurān / by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely; title: Deh Lurān in the trans-regional context; title: Transforming water management and food production on the Deh Lurān Plain; title: Reorienting the Deh Lurān settlements around corridors of communication; title: The implications of this survey for future archaeological work; title: Appendix A: Counts of artifacts in survey collections; title: Appendix B: Archaeological sites on the Deh Lurān Plain.