Cameron A. Petrie - Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions in the 4th Millennium BC

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Cover images:
Front: image of the southern part of the Iranian Plateau and its neighbouring regions in winter.
Back: image of the northern part of the Iranian Plateau and its neighbouring regions in winter.

Both images were generated using NASA Blue Marble: Next Generation satellite imagery, originally produced Reto Stckli and obtained from NASA's Earth Observatory (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

See: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/

Images prepared by C. A. Petrie

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CONTENTS

Abbreviations

CONTRIBUTORS

JOHN ALDEN
Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
jralden@umich.edu

HAJAR ASKARI
Sasanian Research Foundation of Fars
Shiraz, Iran

MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN AZIZI KHARANAGHI
University of Tehran
Tehran, Iran

RACHEL BALLANTYNE
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
rmb51@cam.ac.uk

MANUEL BERBERIAN
Ocean County College
Toms River, NJ, USA
manuel.berberian@gmail.com

GIAN-LUCA BONORA
L.N. Gumilev Eurasian National Univeristy
ul. Munaytpasova 5, 010000, Astana, Kazakhstan
gianluca.bonora6@unibo.it

JACOB L. DAHL
Faculty of Oriental Studies
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
jacob.dahl@orinst.ox.ac.uk

FRANOIS DESSET
Archologies et Sciences de lAntiquit (UMR7041)
Maison Archologie & Ethnologie
Paris, France
francois.desset@wanadoo.fr

MORTEZA DJAMALI
Institut Mditerranen dEcologie et de Palocologie
UMR CNRS
Aix-en Provence, France

HASSAN FAZELI NASHLI
University of Tehran
Tehran, Iran
hfazelin@ut.ac.ir

BARBARA HELWING
German Archaeological Institute
Eurasia Department
Berlin, Germany
Barbara.Helwing@dainst.de

VANESSA M. A. HEYVAERT
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
OD Earth and History of Life
Geological Survey of Belgium
Brussels, Belgium
vanessa.heyvaert@naturalsciences.be

KRISTIN HOPPER
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
Durham, UK
k.a.hopper@durham.ac.uk

MATTHEW JONES
School of Geography
University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, UK
matthew.jones@nottingham.ac.uk

CARLA LANCELOTTI
IMF-CSIC
c/Egipciaques, 15
08001 Barcelona
carla.lancelotti@imf.csic.es

MARJAN MASHKOUR
CNRS / MNHN
UMR 7209, Archozoologie, Archobotanique
Dept EGB- Case postale 56
55 rue Buffon
75005 Paris, France
janmash2000@yahoo.com

ROGER MATTHEWS
Department of Archaeology
University of Reading
Reading, UK
r.j.matthews@reading.ac.uk

BERNADETTE MCCALL
Department of Archaeology
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Bernadette.McCall@sydney.edu.au

BENJAMIN MUTIN
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
benmutin@gmail.com

DARIUSH NOOROLLAHI
School Of Geography
Islamic Azad University of Khorramabad, Iran

CAMERON PETRIE
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
cap59@cam.ac.uk

HOLLY PITTMAN
History of Art
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
hpittman@sas.upenn.edu

SUSAN POLLOCK
Institut fr Vorderasiatische Archologie
Freie Universitt
Berlin, Germany
spollock@zedat.fu-berlin.de

DANIEL T. POTTS
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University
New York City, NY, USA
daniel.potts@nyu.edu

MITCHELL S. ROTHMAN
Department of Anthropology
Widener University
Chester, PA, USA
msrothman@widener.edu

ALIREZA SARDARI
Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR)
National museum, Imam Khomeini street
Tehran
sardary@yahoo.com

LORA STEVENS
Department of Geological Sciences
California State University
Long Beach, CA, USA

CHRISTOPHER P. THORNTON
Asian Section
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
cpt2@sas.upenn.edu

HAMID REZA VALIPOUR
Department of Archaeology
Faculty of letters and Humanities
Shahid Beheshti University

MASSIMO VIDALE
Department of Cultural Heritage
University of Padua
Padova, Italy
massimo.vidale@unipd.it

LLOYD WEEKS
Department of Archaeology
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
Lloyd.Weeks@nottingham.ac.uk

TONY WILKINSON
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
Durham, UK
t.j.wilkinson@durham.ac.uk

HENRY, T. WRIGHT
Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
hwright@umich.edu

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This volume is the product of a group effort by a collection of committed colleagues, and the helpful assistance of some key allies and critical friends. As is discussed in more detail in the introduction, this volume developed out of the papers given at a workshop on Iran in the fourth millennium BC that was held in Cambridge in June 2009. The workshop was made possible by grants kindly provided by the British Institute of Persian Studies, the Ancient India and Iran Trust, and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The production of this volume has been supported financially by the British Institute of Persian Studies, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and Trinity College Cambridge. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors who have contributed to this volume. Without exception they met the deadlines that were imposed, and tolerated the often excessive levels of comments that came back to them from the editor. From my perspective as editor, they made the process of putting together the volume as pleasant as is reasonably possible. I would also like to thank those authors who reviewed the initial drafts of the papers presented here. Most read one of the other papers in the volume and several read more than one. In addition, I would like to thank Dan Potts, Christopher Thornton, Augusta McMahon and especially Lloyd Weeks, whose support has made this volume possible. I would especially like to thank Helen Knox for her diligent and precise copy-editing, which has resulted in a much cleaner series of documents than would have been possible if it had only been left up to the authors and editor. I would also like to thank Clare Litt, Val Lamb, Sam McLeod and all those at Oxbow who have helped produce such a handsome volume in double-quick time. Lastly, I would like to thank my family, Sophie, Cleo and Stella, for putting up with me while producing this book. I would like to dedicate it to the present and future archaeologists of Iran.