The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran

Herausgeber: Potts, D T

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran fills a gap in the literature of the ancient Near East, providing up-to-date, authoritative essays by leading specialists on a wide range of historical, archaeological, and philological topics extending from the earliest Paleolithic settlements in the Pleistocene era to the Islamic conquest in the 7th century AD.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1064
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1701g
• ISBN-13: 9780190668662
• ISBN-10: 0190668660
• Artikelnr.: 47868833

Autorenporträt

D. T. Potts is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Acknowledgements
* List of abbreviations
* Introduction
* Part I. Background and beginnings
* 1. The history of archaeological research in Iran: A brief survey
* Ali Mousavi
* 2. Key questions regarding the palaeoenvironment of Iran
* Matthew D. Jones
* 3. The Paleolithic of Iran
* Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari-Guran
* 4. The development and expansion of a Neolithic way of life
* Lloyd R. Weeks
* Part II. The Chalcolithic period
* 5. The Chalcolithic of northern Iran
* Barbara Helwing
* 6. The Chalcolithic in the central Zagros
* Abbas Moghaddam and Ardashir Javanmardzadeh
* 7. The Later Village (Chalcolithic) period in Khuzestan
* Abbas Moghaddam
* 8. The Chalcolithic in southern Iran
* Cameron A. Petrie
* Part III. The Bronze Age
* 9. The Early Bronze Age in northwestern Iran
* Geoffrey D. Summers
* 10. The Bronze Age in northeastern Iran
* Christopher P. Thornton
* 11. Luristan and the central Zagros in the Bronze Age
* D. T. Potts
* 12. Khuzestan in the Bronze Age
* Javier Álvarez-Mon
* 13. Early writing in Iran
* J.L. Dahl
* 14. The use of Akkadian in Iran
* Katrien De Graef
* 15. Bronze Age Fars
* Bernadette McCall
* 16. Eastern Iran in the Early Bronze Age
* Holly Pittman
* Part IV. The Iron Age
* 17. The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in northwestern Iran
* Michael D. Danti
* 18. Luristan during the Iron Age
* Bruno Overlaet
* 19. The central Alborz region in the Iron Age
* Ali Mousavi
* 20. Linguistic groups in Iran
* Ran Zadok
* 21. Iranian migration
* M. Witzel
* 22. Assyria and the Medes
* Karen Radner
* 23. Elam in the Iron Age
* Javier Álvarez-Mon
* 24. Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia in the early 1st millennium BC
* Matt Waters
* 25. Iron Age southeastern Iran
* Peter Magee
* Part V. The Achaemenid period
* 26. Southwestern Iran in the Achaemenid period
* Rémy Boucharlat
* 27. Administrative realities: The Persepolis Archives and the
archaeology of the Achaemenid heartland
* Wouter F.M. Henkelman
* 28. Avesta and Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenids and early
Sasanians
* P.O. Skjærvø
* 29. Royal Achaemenid iconography
* Mark B. Garrison
* 30. Color and gilding in Achaemenid architecture and sculpture
* Alexander Nagel
* 31. Eastern Iran in the Achaemenid period
* Bruno Genito
* 32. Old Persian
* Jan Tavernier
* 33. Greek sources on Achaemenid Iran
* Maria Brosius
* VI. Seleucid, post-Achaemenid and Arsacid archaeology and history
* 34. Alexander the Great and the Seleucids in Iran
* Paul Kosmin
* 35. Media, Khuzestan and Fars between the end of the Achaemenids and
the rise of the Sasanians
* Pierfrancesco Callieri and Alireza Askari Chaverdi
* 36. Fratarak? and Seleucids
* Josef Wiesehöfer
* 37. The Arsacids (Parthians)
* Stefan R. Hauser
* 38. Parthian and Elymaean rock reliefs
* Trudy S. Kawami
* 39. Arsacid, Elymaean and Persid coinage
* Khodadad Rezakhani
* 40. Aramaic, Parthian and Middle Persian
* Seiro Haruta
* 41. The use of Greek in pre-Sasanian Iran
* Georges Rougemont
* VII. The Sasanian period
* 42. Sasanian political ideology
* M. Rahim Shayegan
* 43. Sasanian coinage
* Nikolaus Schindel
* 44. Sasanian interactions with Rome and Byzantium
* P. Edwell
* 45. Sasanian rock reliefs
* Matthew P. Canepa
* 46. Kuh-e Khwaja and the religious architecture of Sasanian Iran
* Soroor Ghanimati
* 47. Sasanian administation and sealing practices
* Negin Miri
* 48. Luxury silver vessels of the Sasanian period
* Kate Masia-Radford
* 49. Sasanian textiles
* Carol Bier
* 50. Pre-Islamic Iranian calendrical systems in the context of Iranian
religious and scientific history
* Antonio Panaino
* 51. The Islamic conquest of Sasanian Iran
* Michael Morony