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Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran - Excavations at Tall-e Geser and Regional Survey in the Ram Hormuz Area (Hardcover)
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Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran - Excavations at Tall-e Geser and Regional Survey in the Ram Hormuz Area (Hardcover)
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
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After a decade-long hiatus in the years of World War II,
archaeological fieldwork was resumed in Iran in 1948. In that year,
the Oriental Institute returned to its long tradition of
archaeological research by sending Donald McCown to the lowlands of
southwestern Iran to conduct a series of surface surveys to find a
multi-period site for excavation. For his survey, McCown chose the
Ram Hormuz region, southeast of lowland Susiana and the region
south and east of the provincial town of Ahvaz down to the Persian
Gulf. McCown recorded 118 sites in the Ram Hormuz and Ahvaz areas
and eventually chose for excavation the large prehistoric mound
complex Tall-e Geser. Three months of excavation in 1948 and 1949
yielded materials that were kept in Chicago for many years. Apart
from short articles, the site was never fully published. In Part 1
of this two-part volume, Abbas Alizadeh and colleagues have
undertaken a final publication of the site. This task was
undertaken because of a number of important considerations. First,
the excavations at Geser have been cited as justifying the division
of the Uruk period in southwestern Iran into Early, Middle, and
Late phases. Second, Geser remains the only systematically
excavated site in the Ram Hormuz region - a strategic location
between the Susiana and Mesopotamian alluvium and the Zagros
highlands of southwestern Iran. Third, Geser has produced a very
extensive body of archaeological materials dating to the
comparatively less understood proto-Elamite period, roughly the
first few centuries of the third millennium bc. And finally, with
the exception of a 700-800-year gap following the proto-Elamite
phase, Geser remains one of the only sites in the Near East to have
a very long and generally uninterrupted depositional sequence, in
this case spanning from the fifth millennium BC to the Safavid
period. The site's crucial location, its importance in the
archaeological literature, and its long stratigraphic sequence made
it imperative that the original excavation results from Geser be
published in anticipation of a time when the site can be
re-excavated. Part 2 of this volume presents the results of
regional surveys conducted in the Ram Hormuz plain from 2005 to
2008, which were undertaken by Alizadeh and colleagues with the
goal of understanding the semi-nomadic, mobile component of lowland
Susiana and its hinterlands through time.
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