Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner


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Series: Monographs 48
ISBN: 978-1-931745-05-5
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Price: Hb $19.98
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Naomi F. Miller and Kamyar Abadi

“… the first comprehensive publication on Iranian archaeology since Frank Hole’s 1987 collection of articles The Archaeology of Western Iran… this collection of essays is a timely reminder of the present state and requirements of Iranian archaeology.” 
  — Gabriele Puschnigg, Journal of Field Archaeology, 2002-2004

This volume is a collection of essays by colleagues, friends, and students of William M. Sumner in appreciation of his outstanding contribution to Iranian archaeology, especially to our archaeological knowledge of Fars, a center of Iranian civilization.
Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction by Naomi F. Miller and Kamyar Abdi

Chapter 2. Archaeobotany in Iran: Past and Future by Naomi F. Miller

Chapter 3. Susa and the Highlands: Major Trends in the History of Elamite Civilization by Pierre de Miroschedji

Chapter 4. Archaeological Survey and Long-term Population Trends in Upper Mesopotamia and Iran by T. J. Wilkinson

Chapter 5. Changing Estimates of Susiana’s Prehistoric Settlement by Nicholas Kouchoukos and Frank Hole

Chapter 6. Archaeological Survey on the Western Ram Hormuz Plain: 1969 by Henry T. Wright and Elizabeth Carter

Chapter 7. Some Observations Based on the Nomadic Characteristics of Fars Prehistoric Cultural Development by Abbas Alizadeh

Chapter 8. The Epipaleolithic in the Marvdasht by Michael Rosenberg

Chapter 9. Sherd Size and the Banesh Phrase of Occupation in the ABC Operation at Malyan, Iran by John R. Alden

Chapter 10. Economy and Administration at Banesh Malyan: Exploring the Potential of Faunal and Chemical Data for Understanding State Process by Melinda A. Zeder and M. James Blackman

Chapter 11. From Écriture to Civilization: Changing the Paradigms of Proto-Elamite Archaeology by Kamyar Abdi

Chapter 12. A Sumerian Statue from Klark Island on the Persian Gulf by Yousef Majidzadeh

Chapter 13. Anshan, Liyan, and Magan circa 2000 BCE by D. T. Potts

Chapter 14. Archaeolmetallurgical Investigations at Malyan: The Evidence for Tin-Bronze in the Kaftari Phase by Vincent C. Pigott, Harry C. Rogers, and Samuel K.

Chapter 15. Reconsidering the Trouvaille de la statuette d’or: Late Sukkalmah Period at Susa by Holly Pittman

Chapter 16. Soudings at Tall-I Qaleh (Hasanabad), Far Province, Iran by Ernie Haerinck and Bruno Overlaet

Chapter 17. Three Stray Elamite Tablets from Malyan by Matthew W. Stolper

Chapter 18. Style Zones and Adaptions Along the Turkish-Iranian Borderland by Mitchell S. Rothman

Chapter 19. Observations on Uratian Bronze Belts by Wolfram Kleiss

Chapter 20. A Temple at Hasanlu by Robert H. Dyson, Jr. and Mary M. Voigt

Chapter 21. The Hasanlu Gold “Bowl”: A View from Transcaucasia by Karen S. Rubinson

Chapter 22. Parsua, Parsa, And Potsherds by T. Cuyler Young Jr.

Chapter 23. The Tomb at Arjan and the History of Southwestern Iran I nthe Early Sixth Century BCE by David Stronach

Chapter 24. The Persepolis Area in the Achaemedid Period: Some Reconsiderations by Rémy Boucharlat

Chapter 25. Context and Content of the Persepolis Inscriptions: The Interchange of XPb and XPd by Michael Kozuh

Chapter 26. The Concept of Zeitgeist in Middle Islamic Archaeology by David Whitcomb

Chapter 27. Mohammadabad Kharreh Caravanserai: Field Institute of Archaeology, Tehran University by Ezat O. Negahban

Chapter 28. Qashqa’I Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Use of Land by Lois Beck