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    The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran by Potts, D. T.;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 4 May 2017

    • ISBN 9780190668662
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages1064 pages
    • Size 246x170x48 mm
    • Weight 1701 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 166 illus.
    • 90

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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    Iran's heritage is as varied as it is complex, and the archaeological, philological, and linguistic scholarship of the region has not been the focus of a comprehensive study for many decades. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran provides up-to-date, authoritative essays on a wide range of topics extending from the earliest Paleolithic settlements in the Pleistocene era to the Arab conquest in the 7th century AD. The volume, authored by specialists based both inside and outside of Iran, is divided into sections covering prehistory, the Chalcolithic, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Achaemenid period, the Seleucid and Arsacid periods, the Sasanian period, and the Arab conquest. In addition, more specialized chapters are included which treat numismatics, religion, languages, political ideology, calendrics, the use of color, textiles, Sasanian silver and reliefs, and political relations with Rome and Byzantium. No other single volume covers as much of Iran's archaeology and history with the same degree of authority. Drawing on the results of the latest fieldwork in Iran and studies by scholars from around the world, this volume addresses a longstanding gap in the literature of the ancient Near East.

    The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran commendably achieves its goal of providing an authoritative, up-to-date, multidisciplinary overview of this region for all periods up to the Islamic conquest, thanks in large part to the meticulous oversight of its editor D. T. Potts. ... This is a volume in which experts in history, archaeology, numismatics, linguistics, and other fields have been brought together to give a rich, multifaceted picture. ... The volume is sweeping, ambitious, and exemplary. Classicists will find within these thousand pages many nuggets of scholarly gold.

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    Table of Contents:

    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. Skj?rv?
    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

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