Ceramic Technology

Lithic Industries

Utensils

External Trade

5311

Visual Arts

Population

Internal Trade

Status, Role, and Prestige

Community Structure

Government Institutions

Writing

Identification

Chronologies and Culture Sequences

Bibliographies in Sources

Organization and Analysis of Results

Collecting

Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

Diet

Classes

Cordage

Processing of Basic Materials

Production and Supply

Occupational Specialization

Location

Mineral Resources

Burial Practices and Funerals

Eschatology

Fauna

Flora

Domesticated Animals

Diagnostic Material Attributes

Dwellings

Building Interiors and Arrangement

Ornament

Reviews and Critiques

Cereal Agriculture

Climate

Topography and Geology

Settlement Patterns

TRADITION SUMMARY: IRANIAN BRONZE AGE

ORIENTATION

ENVIRONMENT

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

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RELATIVE TIME PERIOD

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IMPORTANT SITES

CLIMATE

TOPOGRAPHY

GEOLOGY

BIOTA

HOUSING

POPULATION, HEALTH, AND DISEASE

SUBSISTENCE

WILD FOODS

DOMESTIC FOODS

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

UTENSILS

ORNAMENTS

TRADE

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

ARTS

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Iranian Bronze Age is represented by scattered urban and village settlements in eastern and southeastern Iran between 5000 and 3500 BP. Some cities were quite large, such as Shahr-i Sokhta, which had an estimated population of 20,000 in the 5th millennium. Inhabitants were primarily sedentary agriculturalists, others practiced a nomadic pastoral tradition. The presence of craft specialization and trade suggest possible class division. The period shows a shift from stone tools and weapons to those made of copper and bronze. The presence of cylinder and stamp seals with a form of pictographic writing called Proto-Elamite is diagnostic for this time period.

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