The earliest neolithic of Iran: 2008 excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani

From hunter-forager to farmer-herder in the central Zagros : research context, issues, and methods / Roger Matthews, Yaghoub Mohammadifar and Wendy Matthews -- Contexts of neolithic interaction : geography, palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment of the central Zagros / Wendy Matthews -- A survey of cav...

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Corporate Author: British Institute of Persian Studies (Other)
Contributors: Matthews, Roger (Editor) ; Matthews, Wendy (Other) ; Muḥammadīfar, Yaʿqūb ca. 1970/71 (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford, UK Oakville, CT Oxbow Books 2013
In: CZAP reports (1)
Year: 2013
Series/Journal:Archaeological monographs series 4
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Zagrosgebirge / Neolithic period / Sedentariness / Culture / Findings
B Iran / Neolithic period
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Iran Antiquities
B Jani Site (Iran)
B Neolithic period (Iran) (Kirmānshāhān (Province))
B Excavations (archaeology) (Iran)
B Sheikh-e Abad Site (Iran)
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Summary:From hunter-forager to farmer-herder in the central Zagros : research context, issues, and methods / Roger Matthews, Yaghoub Mohammadifar and Wendy Matthews -- Contexts of neolithic interaction : geography, palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment of the central Zagros / Wendy Matthews -- A survey of caves and rock-shelters in the Kurtavij region / Abbass Motarjem -- Excavations, surface collection, and geophysics at Sheikh-e Abad / Roger Matthews, Yaghoub Mohammadifar, Wendy Matthews, Timothy Astin, Garrard Cole, Hojjat Darabi, Mehdi Daryaie, Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken, Lisa-Marie Shillito and Helen Taylor -- Section investigations at Jani / Wendy Matthews, Abbass Motarjem, Roger Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar -- Radiocarbon dating of Sheikh-e Abad and Jani / Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews and Amy Richardson -- Investigating early neolithic materials, ecology and sedentism : micromorphology and microstratigraphy / Wendy Matthews, with contributions from Lisa-Marie Shillito and Sarah Elliott -- Biomolecular investigations of faecal biomarkers at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani / Lisa-Marie Shillito, Wendy Matthews, Ian Bull and James Williams -- Preliminary techno-typological analysis of chipped stone materials from Sheikh-e Abad / Hamed Vahdati Nasab, Mozhgan Jayez, Hamid Reza Qorbani, Hojjat Darabi and Helen Taylor -- Post-neolithic pottery from Sheikh-e Abad / Yaghoub Mohammadifar -- Material networks of the neolithic at Sheikh-e Abad : objects of bone, stone and clay / Garrard Cole, Roger Matthews and Amy Richardson
Zooarchaeology : preliminary assessment of the animal bones / Robin Bendrey, Garrard Cole and Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken -- Isotope analysis of animal bone / Gundula Müldner -- Human burials / Garrard Cole -- The plant macrofossil evidence from Sheikh-e Abad : first impressions / Jade Whitlam, Hengameh Ilkhani, Amy Bogaard and Mike Charles -- Phytolith indicators of plant resource use at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani / Lisa-Marie Shillito and Sarah Elliott -- Molluscs from Sheikh-e Abad and Jani / Lisa-Marie Shillito, with contributions from Janet Ridout-Sharpe and Martin Bell -- Heavy residue analysis from Sheikh-e Abad / Helen R.S. Williams -- Site management and local impact at Sheikh-e Abad / Michael Seymour -- Networks of neolithic engagement / Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar
Item Description:CD-ROM enth.: A selection of colour images from the volume
Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:1782972234