Western Iran

Barbara Helwing (ed)

Pages: 610 p.
Size:210 x 297 mm
Illustrations:246 b/w, 2 col., 25 tables b/w.

Language(s):English
Publication Year:2026

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BIO

Barbara Helwing is the director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin and an Honorary Professor at the universities of Berlin and Sydney with fieldwork in Turkey (Oylum Höyük), Iran (Arisman, Tappe Sialk), Azerbaijan (Kamiltepe), and Sri Lanka. She is interested in the development of early complexity and the role of technological innovations there-in and has published widely on these issues.

Summary

The sixth volume of the ARCANE series provides an overview on the status of research on the archaeology and history of the third millennium BC in western and southern Iran, including the results of recent exciting discoveries in the Jiroft area of south-eastern Iran. The authors gathered here present a critical and thorough discussion of available knowledge that takes the most recent discoveries into account. A richly illustrated new chronological scheme in line with the terminology developed for the ARCANE series is presented that will serve as a reference volume to scholars and students alike.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

1. Introduction
Barbara Helwing

2. Stratigraphy
Barbara Helwing

3. Ceramics
Georg Neumann

4. Settlement Structures
Barbara Helwing

5. Architecture
Barbara Helwing

6. The Metal Industry
Barbara Helwing

7. Small Finds
Barbara Helwing

8. Lithics
Judith Thomalsky

9. Burials and Funerary Customs
Barbara Helwing

10. Glyptic and other Arts
Holly Pittman

11. Radiocarbon Dating
Cameron A. Petrie

12. Early Writing from Iran
Jacob Dahl

13. History and Philology
Ingo Schrakamp

14. Conclusions
Barbara Helwing

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