{"product_id":"oxford-handbook-of-ancient-iran-9780190668662","title":"Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIran''s heritage is as varied as it is complex, and the archaeological, philological, and linguistic scholarship of the region has not been the focus of a comprehensive study for many decades. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran provides up-to-date, authoritative essays on a wide range of topics extending from the earliest Paleolithic settlements in the Pleistocene era to the Arab conquest in the 7th century AD. The volume, authored by specialists based both inside and outside of Iran, is divided into sections covering prehistory, the Chalcolithic, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Achaemenid period, the Seleucid and Arsacid periods, the Sasanian period, and the Arab conquest. In addition, more specialized chapters are included which treat numismatics, religion, languages, political ideology, calendrics, the use of color, textiles, Sasanian silver and reliefs, and political relations with Rome and Byzantium. No other single volume covers as much of Iran''s archaeology and history with \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran commendably achieves its goal of providing an authoritative, up-to-date, multidisciplinary overview of this region for all periods up to the Islamic conquest, thanks in large part to the meticulous oversight of its editor D. T. Potts. ... This is a volume in which experts in history, archaeology, numismatics, linguistics, and other fields have been brought together to give a rich, multifaceted picture. ... The volume is sweeping, ambitious, and exemplary. Classicists will find within these thousand pages many nuggets of scholarly gold. * ICJ-Online, a service of The Classical Journal *\u003cbr\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran at last provides a comprehensive overview and bibliography of the archaeology of pre-Islamic Iran. Potts has done a remarkable job bringing together scholars from every country that has played an important role in the archaeology of Iran. This book will certainly become the first source to turn to when embarking on a study on aspects of ancient Iran. * Steve Renette, BiOr no. LXXI 3\/4   *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I. Background and beginnings 1. The history of archaeological research in Iran: A brief survey  Ali Mousavi 2. Key questions regarding the palaeoenvironment of Iran  Matthew D. Jones 3. The Paleolithic of Iran  Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari-Guran 4. The development and expansion of a Neolithic way of life  Lloyd R. Weeks Part II. The Chalcolithic period  5. The Chalcolithic of northern Iran  Barbara Helwing 6. The Chalcolithic in the central Zagros  Abbas Moghaddam and Ardashir Javanmardzadeh 7. The Later Village (Chalcolithic) period in Khuzestan  Abbas Moghaddam 8. The Chalcolithic in southern Iran  Cameron A. Petrie Part III. The Bronze Age 9. The Early Bronze Age in northwestern Iran  Geoffrey D. Summers 10. The Bronze Age in northeastern Iran  Christopher P. Thornton 11. Luristan and the central Zagros in the Bronze Age  D. T. Potts 12. Khuzestan in the Bronze Age  Javier Álvarez-Mon 13. Early writing in Iran  J.L. Dahl 14. The use of Akkadian in Iran  Katrien De Graef 15. Bronze Age Fars  Bernadette McCall 16. Eastern Iran in the Early Bronze Age  Holly Pittman Part IV. The Iron Age 17. The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in northwestern Iran  Michael D. Danti 18. Luristan during the Iron Age  Bruno Overlaet 19. The central Alborz region in the Iron Age  Ali Mousavi 20. Linguistic groups in Iran  Ran Zadok 21. Iranian migration  M. Witzel 22. Assyria and the Medes  Karen Radner 23. Elam in the Iron Age  Javier Álvarez-Mon 24. Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia in the early 1st millennium BC  Matt Waters 25. Iron Age southeastern Iran  Peter Magee Part V. The Achaemenid period 26. Southwestern Iran in the Achaemenid period  Rémy Boucharlat 27. Administrative realities: The Persepolis Archives and the archaeology of the Achaemenid heartland  Wouter F.M. Henkelman 28. Avesta and Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenids and early Sasanians  P.O. Skjærvø 29. Royal Achaemenid iconography  Mark B. Garrison 30. Color and gilding in Achaemenid architecture and sculpture  Alexander Nagel 31. Eastern Iran in the Achaemenid period  Bruno Genito 32. Old Persian  Jan Tavernier 33. Greek sources on Achaemenid Iran  Maria Brosius VI. Seleucid, post-Achaemenid and Arsacid archaeology and history 34. Alexander the Great and the Seleucids in Iran  Paul Kosmin 35. Media, Khuzestan and Fars between the end of the Achaemenids and the rise of the Sasanians  Pierfrancesco Callieri and Alireza Askari Chaverdi 36. Fratarak? and Seleucids  Josef Wiesehöfer 37. The Arsacids (Parthians)  Stefan R. Hauser 38. Parthian and Elymaean rock reliefs  Trudy S. Kawami 39. Arsacid, Elymaean and Persid coinage  Khodadad Rezakhani 40. Aramaic, Parthian and Middle Persian  Seiro Haruta 41. The use of Greek in pre-Sasanian Iran  Georges Rougemont VII. The Sasanian period 42. Sasanian political ideology  M. Rahim Shayegan 43. Sasanian coinage  Nikolaus Schindel 44. Sasanian interactions with Rome and Byzantium  P. Edwell 45. Sasanian rock reliefs  Matthew P. Canepa 46. Kuh-e Khwaja and the religious architecture of Sasanian Iran  Soroor Ghanimati 47. Sasanian administation and sealing practices  Negin Miri 48. Luxury silver vessels of the Sasanian period  Kate Masia-Radford 49. Sasanian textiles  Carol Bier 50. Pre-Islamic Iranian calendrical systems in the context of Iranian religious and scientific history  Antonio Panaino 51. The Islamic conquest of Sasanian Iran  Michael Morony","brand":"OUP USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083811975511,"sku":"9780190668662","price":49.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oxford-handbook-of-ancient-iran-9780190668662","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}