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 …

CHAPTER ONE Fig. 1.1. Map to show location of region and key Neolithic sites. Fig. 1.2.
Screen shot from IADB. Fig. 1.3. Processing of heavy residue from flotation. Fig. 1.4. Project …

Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology invites readers to
reconsider the contents and agendas of the art historical and world-culture canons by …

―Very slowly and very reluctantly, I have come to the conclusion that most of the principles
that we have advanced to order our data bear little resemblance in kind to th systems of …

2 Hassan Fazeli Nashli and Roger Matthews societies in western Iran. Much of the material
from these pioneering projects has been productively reworked and studied by scholars in …

Apstrakt: Na osnovu predubeđenja o tome da u neolitskim zbirkama antropomorfnih figurina
dominiraju predstave žena formirani su narativi o postojanju kultova plodnosti i Velike …

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 …

Recent research into ground stone technology has moved beyond the earlier typological
approach of describing and classifying the artefact at the point when it entered the …

Prehistoric human figurines in general and female figurines in particular have been of long-
standing interest to archaeologists, but there has been considerable debate about their …

This thesis focuses on the investigation of early anthropomorphic figurines in the Near East.
While traditional assertions suggested that anthropomorphic figurines symbolized gods or …