Table des matières
Emmanuelle Vila, Marjan Mashkour, Michèle Casanova et al.
PrefaceThe global context of the Bronze Age on the Iranian Plateau
Jan-Waalke Meyer
Early urbanisation in IranA view from the west – some considerations about the theory of urbanisation
Expansion of the Kura-Araxes culture in Iran
Giulio Palumbi
The expansion of the Kura‑Araxes culture in Iran: what role for the Uruk?- The Kura‑Araxes culture in the southern Caucasus
- The Kura‑Araxes culture in Iran
- Godin Tepe in the Kangavar Valley
- Godintepe VI:1. The “Uruk” occupation
- Godintepe IV. The “Kura‑Araxes” occupation
- Uruk and Kura‑Araxes in Iran
- The Upper Euphrates Valley in the fourth millennium. Arslantepe VIA
- Arslantepe VIB1
- Comparing Godin Tepe and Arslantepe. Concluding remarks
Sepideh Maziar
Iran and the Kura-Araxes cultural tradition, so near and yet so far- Introduction
- Fifth to the third millennia BC: Mesopotamianism phenomenon
- Kura-Araxes cultural tradition in northwestern Iran; a closer look
- Geographical and cultural context of this study
- Nadir Tepesi
- Kohne Pasgah Tepesi
- Kohne Tepesi
- Kul Tepe near Jolfa
- Kura-Araxes cultural tradition in the Araxes Valley
- Final remark
- Acknowledgment
Alexia Decaix, Fatemeh Azadeh Mohaseb, Sepideh Maziar et al.
Subsistence economy in Kohneh Pasgah Tepesi (eastern Azerbaijan, Iran) during the Late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age based on the faunal and botanical remainsAlexia Decaix, Rémi Berthon, Fatemeh Azadeh Mohaseb et al.
Toward a definition of the Kura-Araxes agropastoral systemsElamite Kingdom
Alain Le Brun
Susa at the turn of the 4th and 3rd millenniaAli Zalaghi
An overview of the settlement patterns of Susa III period in the Upper KhuzestanArchaeological survey in the western bank of the Karkheh river
- Introduction
- Review of Studies about early Third Millennium BC Settlements in Upper Khuzestan
- Archaeological Survey in the West bank of the Karkheh River: A General View
- The distribution model of Susa III/Proto-Elamite settlements in north Susiana
- Western Karkheh River
- Karkheh to Dez River
- Dez to Karun river
- Eastern Karun
- Final remarks and Discussion
- Acknowledgments
Alireza Sardari et Samira Attarpour
From the Proto-Elamite to Shimashki: the third millennium BC at Tappeh Senjar, the Susiana PlainElnaz Rashidian
In search of cities in Elam. For a geoarchaeological approach to the toponym-hydronym interactionUrbanisation in Eastern Iran
Julie Bessenay-Prolonge et Régis Vallet
Tureng Tepe and its high terrace, a reassessment- Location and topography of the site
- History of the excavations and publication project
- Tureng Tepe and the Gorgan area during the Bronze Age
- The high terrace of Tureng Tepe
- Datation
- Materials and building techniques
- Small stone columns
- Comparisons with others monuments from the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia
- Altyn Depe
- Mundigak V
- Nad‑i Ali
- Conclusion
Ali A. Vahdati, Raffaele Biscione, Riccardo La Farina et al.
Preliminary report on the first season of excavations at Tepe ChalowNew GKC (BMAC) finds in the plain of Jajarm, NE Iran
Nasir Eskandari
Regional patterns of Early Bronze Age urbanization in the southeastern IranNew discoveries on the western fringe of Dasht‑e Lut
- Introduction
- An overview of the known urban centers of SE Iran
- Helmand River basin: Shahr‑i Sokhta
- Halil River basin: Jiroft
- Dasht‑e Lut: Shahdad
- Recent Dasht‑e Lut project: two newly identified large urban centers
- Keshit
- Mokhtarabad
- Spatial perspectives on urban landscape of Dasht‑e Lut
- Southeastern Iran urbanization: new views from Dasht‑e Lut
- Concluding remarks
- Future directions
- Acknowledgments
David M.P. Meier
A pyrotechnological installation from the “metallurgical workshop” at Shahdad and its next geographical and chronological comparisons- History of research at Shahdad
- The pyrotechnical installation Type I at the “metallurgical workshop” Site D at Shahdad
- The “Private House” at Shahdad
- Preliminary evaluation of the presented evidences from Shahdad
- Protohistoric examples of pyrotechnological installations from Turkmenistan
- Pyrotechnological installations called “cheminées” from Susa
- Conclusion
Production and trade
Henri-Paul Francfort
Iran and Central AsiaThe Grand’Route of Khorasan (Great Khorasan Road) during the third millennium BC and the “dark stone” artefacts
Sedigheh Piran
Prestige objects in South East of Iran during the Bronze Age in the National Museum of IranMichèle Casanova
Exchanges and trade during the Bronze Age in IranBabak Rafiei-Alavi
The biography of a dagger typeThe diachronic transformation of the daggers with the crescent-shaped guard
The transition to Iron Age
Hamid Fahimi
The Bronze Age and the Iron Age on the Central Iranian PlateauTwo successive cultures or the appearance of a new culture?
Conclusion
Jan‑Waalke Meyer, Emmanuelle Vila, Régis Vallet et al.
The urbanisation of the Iranian Plateau and adjacent areas during the Bronze AgeConcluding thoughts
