The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

Human communities made the transition from hunter-foraging to more sedentary agriculture
and herding at multiple locations across Southwest Asia through the Early Neolithic period …

The origin of record keeping is a key question in the development of social complexity and
specialized economies, representing the first step towards the emergence of written …

Tell Sabi Abyad was a major Neolithic settlement in Upper Mesopotamia, occupied for 1800
years during the 7th to 6th millennium cal BC. Excavations have revealed hundreds of clay …

Neolithic material engagements transformed the ways in which communities interacted with
the physical world and one another. Based on evidence from the flanks of the Zagros …

During the Neolithic, small geometric-shaped clay objects appear across West Asia. It is
generally assumed that from their inception, clay objects acted as mnemonic accounting …

Iran at the Neolithic Transition: An Analysis of New Sites and Old Climate Data David Danzig
Prof. Daniel T. Potts Iranian Archa Page 1 Iran at the Neolithic Transition: An Analysis of New …