- A14 - Quadrangle; The University of Sydney; NSW 2006 Australia
- Iranian Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Archaeology of Caucasus, Anatolian Archaeology (Archaeology), Archaeometallurgy, Social Network Analysis (SNA), and 18 moreAncient Technology (Archaeology), Archaeology of Central Asia, Commensal Politics (Archaeology), Cross-cultural interaction (Archaeology), Iranian world (Archaeology), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Nationalism and Archaeology, Proto-Elamite Period, archaeology in Iraq, Kura-Araxes Culture, Geoarchaeology, Development of complex societies, History of Archaeology, Elamite Art and Archaeology, Neolithic Europe, Neolithic of the Near East; figurines, and Bayesian Radiocarbon Datingedit
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The National Museum of Iran translated the exhibition catalogue of the Bonn Exhibition - available from Iran National Museum, Tehran
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Reports on the excavations and specialist studies carried out within the Kura Projects in Azerbaijan and Georgia, 2010 to 2016. The articles included in this volume refer to two research projects, the general idea of which was to give... more
Reports on the excavations and specialist studies carried out within the Kura Projects in Azerbaijan and Georgia, 2010 to 2016. The articles included in this volume refer to two research projects, the general idea of which was to give the cultural and landscape history during Holocene period a solid foundation with help from new excavations and surveys. Through detailed studies, the authors thematize aspects like environmental reconstruction, economic activities and symbolic acts, while the excavation results offer a look into hitherto unknown phenomena of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Southern Caucasus. They demonstrate that the expansion of the agrarian lifestyle in the Southern Caucasus occurred in forms other than those of the Neolithic Expansion of Anatolian and southeastern Europe
With contributions by J. Abuladze, G. Ahadi, T. Aliyev, L. Astruc, K. Bastert-Lamprichs, E. Baudouin, F. Becker, N. Benecke, L. Bouqet, G. Bruley-Chabot, M. B. D’Anna, A. Decaix, E. Degorre, J. Fassbinder, M. Fontugne, I. Gatsov, D. Guilbeau, F. Guliyev, S. Hansen, I. Heit, B. Helwing, X. Husson, V. Ioseliani, E. Jovenet, S. Kroll, B. Kromer, G. Le Dosseur, B. Lyonnet, G. Mirtskhulava, P. Nedelcheva, R. Neef, D. Neumann, L. Pecqueur, M. Poulmarc’h, P. Raymond, A. Ricci, A. Samzun, D. Steiniger, B. Taha, M. Tengberg, M. Ullrich, J. Wahl, D. Zhvania
With contributions by J. Abuladze, G. Ahadi, T. Aliyev, L. Astruc, K. Bastert-Lamprichs, E. Baudouin, F. Becker, N. Benecke, L. Bouqet, G. Bruley-Chabot, M. B. D’Anna, A. Decaix, E. Degorre, J. Fassbinder, M. Fontugne, I. Gatsov, D. Guilbeau, F. Guliyev, S. Hansen, I. Heit, B. Helwing, X. Husson, V. Ioseliani, E. Jovenet, S. Kroll, B. Kromer, G. Le Dosseur, B. Lyonnet, G. Mirtskhulava, P. Nedelcheva, R. Neef, D. Neumann, L. Pecqueur, M. Poulmarc’h, P. Raymond, A. Ricci, A. Samzun, D. Steiniger, B. Taha, M. Tengberg, M. Ullrich, J. Wahl, D. Zhvania
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Vom ewigen Schnee auf den Gipfeln von Alborz-und Zagrosgebirge bis in die Gluthitze der Wüste Lut: Der Iran ist ein Land der Kontraste mit tiefen historischen Wurzeln. In den fruchtbaren Tälern und Oasen Irans entstanden seit der... more
Vom ewigen Schnee auf den Gipfeln von Alborz-und Zagrosgebirge bis in die Gluthitze der Wüste Lut: Der Iran ist ein Land der Kontraste mit tiefen historischen Wurzeln. In den fruchtbaren Tälern und Oasen Irans entstanden seit der Sesshaftwerdung von Menschen Dörfer, Städte, in denen Handwerk und Handel blühten, schließlich Staaten, deren Namen aus dem Kontakt mit Babylonien und später mit den Griechen überliefert sind und deren Entwicklung im Aufstieg des achämenidischen Weltreichs gipfelte. Spektakuläre Schätze aus einem über Jahrzehnte verschlossenen Land offenbaren die wenig bekannte Bildwelt der iranischen Kulturen vom 7. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend bis zum ersten persischen Großreich im 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr.: von den Tierkampfszenen auf Steingefäßen aus den Gräberfeldern von Dschiroft zur phantasievollen Malerei auf den Keramikgefäßen aus Susa, Kampfszenen auf dem Goldbecher von Hasanlu oder den Kostbarkeiten aus den erst 2007 entdeckten Gräbern zweier elamischer Prinzessinnen bei Dschubadschi. In Kooperation mit dem National Museum of Iran, Teheran, und der Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization
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The book documents an exhibition held 2011 at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the German Archaeological Institute's opening in Tehran, Iran. Here is finally the Persian translation of the book.
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Begleitbuch zu einer Ausstellung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen Berlin. 2.12.2011-4.3.2012 im Pergamonmuseum, Museumsinsel Berlin aus Anlass des... more
Begleitbuch zu einer Ausstellung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen Berlin. 2.12.2011-4.3.2012 im Pergamonmuseum, Museumsinsel Berlin aus Anlass des fünfzigjährigen Bestehens der Außenstelle Teheran des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
The DAI Tehran Office turned 50 in 2011 - we celebrated in Berlin, with an exhibition and a conference. The book discusses the beginnings of German archaeological research in Iran since the 19th century until today; contains furthermore short texts on a variety of archaeology- and history-related issues, and some beautiful photographs from the DAI Archives.
The DAI Tehran Office turned 50 in 2011 - we celebrated in Berlin, with an exhibition and a conference. The book discusses the beginnings of German archaeological research in Iran since the 19th century until today; contains furthermore short texts on a variety of archaeology- and history-related issues, and some beautiful photographs from the DAI Archives.
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The Oriental Institute's Prehistoric Project directed by Robert Braidwood was a prime example of problem-driven research into the early steps of sedentary life in the ‘Hilly Flanks of the Fertile Crescent’. In seeking the foundations of... more
The Oriental Institute's Prehistoric Project directed by Robert Braidwood was a prime example of problem-driven research into the early steps of sedentary life in the ‘Hilly Flanks of the Fertile Crescent’. In seeking the foundations of changing lifeways in new methods to access the material sources sustaining life, Braidwood built on earlier concepts, in particular on Gordon Childe's ‘Neolithic Revolution’. Since the end of field research in northern Iraq and Iran since the 1980s, the ‘Hilly Flanks’ model continues to inform research. Spectacular discoveries further west have reshaped the understanding of the dynamics leading to the transformation of lifeways and called for the formulation of less material- and more human-focused models. Jacques Cauvin linked the shifts in lifeways to a revolution of symbolic behaviour preceding domestication and sedentarization. This paradigmatic shift from material basis to symbolic behaviour has not yet been embraced in the Iranian Hilly Flanks due to the lack of data that could serve to test this model. This situation is beginning to change with new data and the revision and restudy of existing collections. This chapter calls for an integration of recent data and new theoretical models developed in neighbouring regions to re-approach the Early Neolithic in Iran. Robust new data remain a desideration, but an important impact can also be expected from engaging with the theoretical concepts of the post-Braidwood era.
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The 2012 campaign at Kamiltepe and MPS 4 yielded details on stratigraphical sequencing and internal chronology. New findings are a round structure cutting into the earlier platform, and cell-like rooms attached to the platform. At MPS 4... more
The 2012 campaign at Kamiltepe and MPS 4 yielded details on stratigraphical sequencing and internal chronology. New findings are a round structure cutting into the earlier platform, and cell-like rooms attached to the platform. At MPS 4 the two interior ditches could be traced over a longer section; by this, an upper occupation with oval hut floors as well as a lower ditch fill could be identified, both representing distinct chronological phases of occupation. In 2013, excavations at Kamiltepe completed the documentation of an empty area north of the platform and opened access to the platform façade. A large round building in the north, filled with a thick ash layer, had been disturbed by Iron Age burials. In MPS 4 the excavations within the two interior ditches yielded sections with and without finds, separated by walls within the ditches. Joining fragments of a female figurine indicate that both ditches were open at the same time; radiocarbon dated around 5600 BC.
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Helwing Barbara. Mutin B. 2013. The Proto-Elamite Settlement and Its Neighbors. Tepe Yahya Period IVC (The American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series). In: Paléorient, 2016, vol. 42, n°1. pp. 204-206
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Les niveaux archeologiques les plus anciens degages au pied de la zone Ouest de Oylum Hoyuk, pres des sources de la riviere Quoueiq, consistent en une enorme plateforme en pierre adossee a un remblai rem¬ pli de ceramiques de type Obeid.... more
Les niveaux archeologiques les plus anciens degages au pied de la zone Ouest de Oylum Hoyuk, pres des sources de la riviere Quoueiq, consistent en une enorme plateforme en pierre adossee a un remblai rem¬ pli de ceramiques de type Obeid. Les niveaux suivants ont livre une sequence stratigraphique bien ordonnee, dont l'assemblage ceramique est caracterise par de la ceramique grossiere, degraissee a la paille, aux surfaces grattees ou brossees et presentant des paralleles etroits avec l'assemblage d'Arslantepe VIII. Ce materiel est associe a des sceaux-cachets, des perles et d'autres artefacts permettant une correlation avec d'autres assemblages dates du Chalcolithique. Au-dessus de ces couches archeologiques se trouvait un niveau d'occupation perce de tombes plus tardives : ces tombes ont livre de la ceramique Chaff-Faced Ware "classique" , caracteristique de l'assemblage ceramique regional de la premiere moitie du 4eme millenaire av. n.e. ; L...
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L'institut pour la pre- et la protohistoire de l'universite de Heidelberg coopere depuis 1990 avec le Max-Planck-Institut pour la physique nucleaire sur un projet concernant l'etude des premiers metaux utilises en Mesopotamie.... more
L'institut pour la pre- et la protohistoire de l'universite de Heidelberg coopere depuis 1990 avec le Max-Planck-Institut pour la physique nucleaire sur un projet concernant l'etude des premiers metaux utilises en Mesopotamie. Les auteurs de cet article presentent un catalogue chronologique des objets d'Uruk-Warka examines ainsi que les resultats de ces analyses.
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This article presents arguments to date the Neolithic graveyard at Tell es-Sawwan to the “ Initial Pottery Neolithic” (ca the middle of the 7th millennium cal. BC). Stratigraphy and burial customs as well as material culture allow to draw... more
This article presents arguments to date the Neolithic graveyard at Tell es-Sawwan to the “ Initial Pottery Neolithic” (ca the middle of the 7th millennium cal. BC). Stratigraphy and burial customs as well as material culture allow to draw comparisons with sites of this period. They additionally indicate a strong cultural continuity with the PPNB period. This new understanding of the graveyard together with its earlier date necessitates furthermore a discussion of the southern extension of the region where the sedentary PPNB hunter-gatherers flourished.
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Helwing Barbara. Nishiaki Y. and Matsutani T. (eds), 2003. Tell Kosak Shamali : The archaeological investigations on the Upper Euphrates, Syria, vol. 2. Chalcolithic technology and subsistence.. In: Paléorient, 2003, vol. 29, n°2. pp.... more
Helwing Barbara. Nishiaki Y. and Matsutani T. (eds), 2003. Tell Kosak Shamali : The archaeological investigations on the Upper Euphrates, Syria, vol. 2. Chalcolithic technology and subsistence.. In: Paléorient, 2003, vol. 29, n°2. pp. 157-158
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The Arisman ancient metallurgical site is located in western Central Iran. This site hosts hugemetallurgical remains from the late 4th to early 3rdmillennium BCE, which attest to an extensiveproduction of arsenical copper and silver at... more
The Arisman ancient metallurgical site is located in western Central Iran. This site hosts hugemetallurgical remains from the late 4th to early 3rdmillennium BCE, which attest to an extensiveproduction of arsenical copper and silver at the same time. Despite the archaeometallurgicalinvestigations that have so far been carried out at Arisman, some questions about the provenanceof the ore, the technological procedures utilized and the possible connection between copperand silver production are still open. Thus, the authors have reviewed the previously publisheddata and investigated and/or re-examined some of the metallurgical remains of the site includingore and slag pieces, as well as litharge fragments, through the use of ICP-MS, XRD, SEM, andoptical microscopy. The results demonstrate a sharper picture for the metallurgical processes anda clearer provenance for the ore. It seems that the ore was provided from two polymetallic oredeposits of Baqoroq and Komjan in Central Iran. The polymetallic ore contained copper, arsenic, lead, and silver and was processed in two interconnected steps of smelting and cupellation, which produced arsenical copper and silver.
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The authors discuss the simultaneous appearance of technological innovations in three key technologies (metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, weighing systems) in the second half of the 4th millennium. This is done from a source-critical... more
The authors discuss the simultaneous appearance of technological innovations in three key technologies (metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, weighing systems) in the second half of the 4th millennium. This is done from a source-critical perspective because the innovations are discussed with the help of dynamic maps from the Topoi project Digital Atlas of Innovations . Besides indications of diffusion gradients influenced by special research conditions, exceptional waves of innovation can be detected for all three technologies in the discussed period. These waves of innovation cannot, however, be generalized but have to be understood on the basis of the respective technology traditions and lines of development specific to local areas. Monocentric diffusion theories can be clearly disproven, local technology developments and their converging in certain centrally situated regions have to be assumed instead. Similarly, the transfer of objects and their châine operatoire can only be detected ra...
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The authors discuss the simultaneous appearance of technological innovations in three key technologies (metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, weighing systems) in the second half of the 4th millennium. This is done from a source-critical... more
The authors discuss the simultaneous appearance of technological innovations in three
key technologies (metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, weighing systems) in the second half of
the 4th millennium. This is done from a source-critical perspective because the innovations
are discussed with the help of dynamic maps from the Topoi project Digital Atlas
of Innovations. Besides indications of diffusion gradients influenced by special research
conditions, exceptional waves of innovation can be detected for all three technologies in
the discussed period. These waves of innovation cannot, however, be generalized but have
to be understood on the basis of the respective technology traditions and lines of development
specific to local areas. Monocentric diffusion theories can be clearly disproven,
local technology developments and their converging in certain centrally situated regions
have to be assumed instead. Similarly, the transfer of objects and their châine opératoire can
only be detected rather infrequently, while the adaptation to local socio-economic and
environmental factors can be demonstrated
key technologies (metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, weighing systems) in the second half of
the 4th millennium. This is done from a source-critical perspective because the innovations
are discussed with the help of dynamic maps from the Topoi project Digital Atlas
of Innovations. Besides indications of diffusion gradients influenced by special research
conditions, exceptional waves of innovation can be detected for all three technologies in
the discussed period. These waves of innovation cannot, however, be generalized but have
to be understood on the basis of the respective technology traditions and lines of development
specific to local areas. Monocentric diffusion theories can be clearly disproven,
local technology developments and their converging in certain centrally situated regions
have to be assumed instead. Similarly, the transfer of objects and their châine opératoire can
only be detected rather infrequently, while the adaptation to local socio-economic and
environmental factors can be demonstrated
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This study presents a new approach for detection and mapping of ancient slag heaps using 16-band multispectral satellite imagery. Understanding the distribution of slag (a byproduct of metal production) is of great importance for... more
This study presents a new approach for detection and mapping of ancient slag heaps using 16-band multispectral satellite imagery. Understanding the distribution of slag (a byproduct of metal production) is of great importance for understanding how metallurgy shaped long-term economic and political change across the ancient Near East. This study presents results of slag mapping in Oman using WorldView-3 (WV3) satellite imagery. A semi-automated target detection routine using a mixed tuned matched filtering (MTMF) algorithm with scene-derived spectral signatures was applied to 16-band WV3 imagery. Associated field mapping at two copper production sites indicates that WorldView-3 satellite data can differentiate slag and background materials with a relatively high (>90%) overall accuracy. Although this method shows promise for future initiatives to discover and map slag deposits, difficulties in dark object spectral differentiation and underestimation of total slag coverage substantially limit its use. Resulting lower estimations of combined user's (61%) and producer's (45%) accuracies contextualize these limitations for slag specific classification. Accordingly, we describe potential approaches to address these challenges in future studies. As sites of ancient metallurgy in Oman are often located in areas of modern exploration and mining, detection and mapping of ancient slag heaps via satellite imagery can be helpful for discovery and monitoring of vulnerable cultural heritage sites.
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This study presents a new approach for detection and mapping of ancient slag heaps using 16-band multispectral satellite imagery. Understanding the distribution of slag (a byproduct of metal production) is of great importance for... more
This study presents a new approach for detection and mapping of ancient slag heaps using 16-band multispectral satellite imagery. Understanding the distribution of slag (a byproduct of metal production) is of great importance for understanding how metallurgy shaped long-term economic and political change across the ancient Near East. This study presents results of slag mapping in Oman using WorldView-3 (WV3) satellite imagery. A semi-automated target detection routine using a mixed tuned matched filtering (MTMF) algorithm with scene-derived spectral signatures was applied to 16-band WV3 imagery. Associated field mapping at two copper production sites indicates that WorldView-3 satellite data can differentiate slag and background materials with a relatively high (>90%) overall accuracy. Although this method shows promise for future initiatives to discover and map slag deposits, difficulties in dark object spectral differentiation and underestimation of total slag coverage substant...
Research Interests: Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Remote Sensing, Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Archaeology, and 11 moreLandscape Archaeology, Archaeometry, Ancient Near East, Mining, Archaeometallurgy, Archaeology of Oman, Early Islamic Archaeology, Iron Age, Ore Geology, History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, and Arabian/Persian Gulf Archaeology
Recent survey and excavation conducted in the Mil Plain region of the southern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan challenges traditional notions of Neolithic sedentism. Here, the authors present their findings, and propose that prior to... more
Recent survey and excavation conducted in the Mil Plain region of the southern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan challenges traditional notions of Neolithic sedentism. Here, the authors present their findings, and propose that prior to its abandonment towards the end of the sixth millennium BC, the occupation of the region was comprised of numerous highly variable short-term sites and multi-mounded sites (Qarabel Tepe), as well as anchoring sites (Kamiltepe). This indicates multi-scalar
patterns of mobility of a much more complex nature than had previously been supposed, making this region quite unique for the Late
Neolithic of South-western Asia.
patterns of mobility of a much more complex nature than had previously been supposed, making this region quite unique for the Late
Neolithic of South-western Asia.
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Recent survey and excavation conducted in the Mil Plain region of the southern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan challenges traditional notions of Neolithic sedentism. Here, the authors present their findings, and propose that prior to... more
Recent survey and excavation conducted in the Mil Plain region of the southern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan challenges traditional notions of Neolithic sedentism. Here, the authors present their findings, and propose that prior to its abandonment towards the end of the sixth millennium BC, the occupation of the region was comprised of numerous highly variable short-term sites and multi-mounded sites (Qarabel Tepe), as well as anchoring sites (Kamiltepe). This indicates multi-scalar patterns of mobility of a much more complex nature than had previously been supposed, making this region quite unique for the Late Neolithic of Southwestern Asia.
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Full reference: Helwing, Barbara. 2018. ‘Metals and Mining’. In The Elamite World, edited by Javier Alvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks, 118–45. Routledge Worlds. London: Routledge.... more
Full reference: Helwing, Barbara. 2018. ‘Metals and Mining’. In The Elamite World, edited by Javier Alvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks, 118–45. Routledge Worlds. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Elamite-World/Alvarez-Mon-Basello-Wicks/p/book/9781138999893.
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The development of metallurgy from the later 6th millennium BC and throughout the Chalcolithic period took place in different places at different times and pace, depending on various factors such as the availability of raw materials and... more
The development of metallurgy from the later 6th millennium BC and throughout the Chalcolithic period took place in different places at different times and pace, depending on various factors such as the availability of raw materials and the command of this specific craft and knowledge. Networks of raw material circulation and schools of craftsmen’s skills developed that allowed the travelling of materials, skills and knowledge. An analysis of metal artefacts and metal processing residues can make these networks visible as patterned distributions of raw material and alloys, artefact types and craft traditions. The Southern Caucasus as a major raw material source for metals such as copper, gold, and antimony is one player in these metallurgical networks. Beyond the raw material availability, a highly skilled and original metallurgy flourished there from the onset of the Kura-Araxes period. It is the aim of this paper to compare the pre-Kura-Araxes steps of metallurgical processing in the Southern Caucasus with parallel developments in the neighbouring regions, especially in the highlands of Iran, where recent research has greatly enhanced our understanding of these early periods of metal working. It will become visible that the Southern Caucasus and highland Iran shared some aspects of metal working, while other fields of material culture and lifestyle remained on separate tracks.
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This article presents arguments to date the Neolithic graveyard at Tell es-Sawwan to the " Initial Pottery Neolithic " (ca the middle of the 7 th millennium cal. BC). Stratigraphy and burial customs as well as material culture allow to... more
This article presents arguments to date the Neolithic graveyard at Tell es-Sawwan to the " Initial Pottery Neolithic " (ca the middle of the 7 th millennium cal. BC). Stratigraphy and burial customs as well as material culture allow to draw comparisons with sites of this period. They additionally indicate a strong cultural continuity with the PPNB period. This new understanding of the graveyard together with its earlier date necessitates furthermore a discussion of the southern extension of the region where the sedentary PPNB hunter-gatherers flourished. Résumé : Cet article expose les arguments qui tendent à faire remonter le cimetière néolithique de Tell es-Sawwan au PN initial (ca milieu du 7 e millénaire cal. BC). La stratigraphie et les pratiques funéraires, tout comme la culture matérielle permettent de dresser des comparaisons avec des sites contemporains. Ils révèlent en outre une continuité culturelle avec la période du PPNB. La nouvelle compréhension de ce cimetière et de son ancienneté conduisent par ailleurs à discuter de l'expansion méridionale des chasseurs-cueilleurs sédentaires du PPNB occupant alors la région.
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This paper aims to provide a reflection on some fifteen years of collaboration between archaeologists and geophysicists and the ways how these two disciplines have interacted, but also influenced each other. It is maintained that... more
This paper aims to provide a reflection on some fifteen years of collaboration between archaeologists and geophysicists and the ways how these two disciplines have interacted, but also influenced each other. It is maintained that geophysical surveying has become an indispensable tool in archaeological inquiry, in particular under time constraints in rescue and preventive archaeology but also in problem-oriented research, allowing to focus on neuralgic points of investigation. This same strategy, however, also bears the risk that archaeologists may let themselves be guided so closely by the results of geophysical prospection as to narrow their own perspectives onto features made visible in these maps. These risks can be outbalanced by continuous communication and the application of additional means of field exploration. This paper examines some case studies of firsthand experience from projects in Iran and Azerbaijan with the aim to point out possible future directions.
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Copper age, European Copper and Bronze Age – Archaeometallurgy – Prehistoric Metalworking in Social Context – Settlement Archaeology – Application of Geophysical Methods in Archaeology – Neolithic – Theory / Cultural Anthropology – Material Culture Studies, and Digital Atlas of Innovations
Overview article on the neolithization of the eastern Fertile Crescent and especially of the Zagros highlands, which followed a pathway different from the better researched regions on the Middle Euphrates and in the Taurus foothills. The... more
Overview article on the neolithization of the eastern Fertile Crescent and especially of the Zagros highlands, which followed a pathway different from the better researched regions on the Middle Euphrates and in the Taurus foothills. The neolithization of the Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent is an example of polycentric evolution, and the region stands outas a centre of domestication that has so far remained hidden out of sight. While the Taurus PPN B populations invested labor in monumental gathering places or mass burial rites, the Zagros populations seem to have followed different paths of social organisaton. The inhabitants of the early villages in Iran tampered with the managing of goats and the cultivation of wild cereals, which lead ultimately to the domestication of some species in this region. Although channels of communication with the communities living further west certainly existed, as the circulation of obsidian indicates, and some inspirations probably were borrowed from these, there seems to have been no need felt to embark on a comparable social endeavor that included large-scale construction projects and public feasts. It is only with the rapid spreading of more or less sedentary occupation into previously unsettled areas of the highlands and of the Southern Caucasus during the later ceramic neolithic that long-distance exchange networks grew. These served to channel the increased circulation of limited raw materials like obsidian and at the same time functioned as communication lines, ultimately integrating the Zagros populations firmly into the wider network of the late neolithic and the following chalcolithic world.
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B. Helwing, Early metallurgy in Iran - an innovative region as seen from the inside. In: S. Burmeister/S. Hansen/M. Kunst/N. Müller-Scheessel (eds.), Metal matters. Innovative technologies and social change in Prehistory and Antiquity. Menschen - Kulturen - Traditionen: ForschungsCluster 2 12 (Ra...more
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Research Interests: Palaeoenvironment, Archaeobotany, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeozoology, Neolithic Archaeology, and 9 moreNeolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Prehistoric Technology, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Early Neolithic pottery technology, South Caucasus, Radiocarbon Dating (Archaeology), and Prehistoric Henges
Research Interests: Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Obsidian, Prehistory of Caucasus (Prehistoric Archaeology), and 15 moreNeolithic flint procurement, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Settlement archaeology, Neolithic, Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Museum Digital, gvSIG, Iran Archaeology, South Caucasus, Stone tools, Settlement & Landscape research, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Aruchlo
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After three years of collaboration and preparation: the Iran exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn will open next Thursday (April 13) - presenting Iranian archaeology from early sedentism to the rise of the Achaemenids. Many thanks... more
After three years of collaboration and preparation: the Iran exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn will open next Thursday (April 13) - presenting Iranian archaeology from early sedentism to the rise of the Achaemenids. Many thanks to all who contributed! Catalogue to follow shortly, so far in German. Come, See, Enjoy!
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Rezension zu: Toby C. Wilkinson, Tying the Threads of Eurasia. Trans-regional Routes and Material Flows in Transcaucasia, Eastern Anatolia and Western Central Asia, c. 3000-1500 BC. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2014. ISBN 90-8890-244-5. 406... more
Rezension zu: Toby C. Wilkinson, Tying the Threads of Eurasia. Trans-regional Routes and Material Flows in Transcaucasia, Eastern Anatolia and Western Central Asia, c. 3000-1500 BC. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2014. ISBN 90-8890-244-5. 406 Seiten, 170 Abbildungen, 8 Tabellen.
Rezenion zu: Lee Clare, Culture Change and Continuity in the Eastern Mediterranean during Rapid Climate Change: Assessing the Vulnerability of Late Neolithic Communities to a Little Ice Age in the Seventh Millennium cal BC. Kölner Studien... more
Rezenion zu: Lee Clare, Culture Change and Continuity in the Eastern Mediterranean during Rapid Climate Change: Assessing the Vulnerability of Late Neolithic Communities to a Little Ice Age in the Seventh Millennium cal BC. Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie Band 7. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2016. ISBN 978-3-86757-367-2. ISSN 1868-2286. 269 Seiten mit 97 Abbildungen und 23 Tabellen
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Translate from German to Persian
ترجمه از آلمانی به فارسی
ترجمه از آلمانی به فارسی
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This talk, presented on 3 May 2021 within the online lecture series of MOM Lyon "Early Urbanization in Iran: Development of the Urban Centers in the Iranian Plateau", provides an updated view on the results of the Joint research project... more
This talk, presented on 3 May 2021 within the online lecture series of MOM Lyon "Early Urbanization in Iran: Development of the Urban Centers in the Iranian Plateau", provides an updated view on the results of the Joint research project on "Early Mining and Metallurgy on the western Iranian Plateau", focussing on Arisman and its relations to the wider contemporary world
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Interview in German: The Near Eastern Museum on Berlin Museum Island
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Interview in German, my first impressions of being in Berlin