Prehistoric Sistan
IsMEO • 19 (1) • Published In 1983 • Pages: xxii, 355 , plates
By: Tosi, Maurizio, Tucci, Giuseppe, Fischer, K., Jux, U., Kempf, K. E., Raikes, R. L., Sarianidi, V. I., Amiet, P., Biscione, R., Bulgarelli, M. C., Gyselen, R., Lerouge, W., Piperno, M., Kawai, N., Hirooka, K., Nakajima, T., Tokieda, K., Nishimura, S., Sasajima, S., Bovington, C., Mahdavi, A., Massoumi, R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work consists of a series of reports on the excavations at Shahr-I Sokhta (1967-1970), located in the Sistan region, Hilmand basin, of eastern Iran.The document is divided into four major parts. Part I deals with the geography of the region providing much information on the geology, climate, topography, fauna, and flora of the Sistan area as background to the archaeological setting. Part II provides data on the actual excavations at Shahr-I Sokhta itself with particular emphasis on the structures uncovered at the site. A lengthy discussion of the material culture of Shahr-I Sokhta is described in part III, with emphasis on pottery types and their decoration, and bead making and the boring techniques used in drilling the beads. This section also contains a descriptive analysis of a bronze female statuette and a clay-handled tool found at the site. The final section of this work, part IV, deals with chronologies and dating methods.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Geography
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Dwellings
- Visual arts
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iranian Bronze Age
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- edited by Maurizio Tosi
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84243450
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bronze age--Iran