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Title The earliest neolithic of Iran : 2008 excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani : Central Zagros Archaeological Project / edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar
Published Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series CZAP reports ; volume 1
British Institute of Persian Studies archaeological monographs series ; IV
Contents From hunter-forager to farmer-herder in the central Zagros : research context, issues, and methods / Roger Matthews, Yaghoub Mohammadifar and Wendy Matthews -- Contexts of neolithic interaction : geography, palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment of the central Zagros / Wendy Matthews -- A survey of caves and rock-shelters in the Kurtavij region / Abbass Motarjem -- Excavations, surface collection, and geophysics at Sheikh-e Abad / Roger Matthews, Yaghoub Mohammadifar, Wendy Matthews, Timothy Astin, Garrard Cole, Hojjat Darabi, Mehdi Daryaie, Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken, Lisa-Marie Shillito and Helen Taylor -- Section investigations at Jani / Wendy Matthews, Abbass Motarjem, Roger Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar -- Radiocarbon dating of Sheikh-e Abad and Jani / Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews and Amy Richardson -- Investigating early neolithic materials, ecology and sedentism : micromorphology and microstratigraphy / Wendy Matthews, with contributions from Lisa-Marie Shillito and Sarah Elliott -- Biomolecular investigations of faecal biomarkers at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani / Lisa-Marie Shillito, Wendy Matthews, Ian Bull and James Williams -- Preliminary techno-typological analysis of chipped stone materials from Sheikh-e Abad / Hamed Vahdati Nasab, Mozhgan Jayez, Hamid Reza Qorbani, Hojjat Darabi and Helen Taylor -- Post-neolithic pottery from Sheikh-e Abad / Yaghoub Mohammadifar -- Material networks of the neolithic at Sheikh-e Abad : objects of bone, stone and clay / Garrard Cole, Roger Matthews and Amy Richardson
Zooarchaeology : preliminary assessment of the animal bones / Robin Bendrey, Garrard Cole and Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken -- Isotope analysis of animal bone / Gundula Müldner -- Human burials / Garrard Cole -- The plant macrofossil evidence from Sheikh-e Abad : first impressions / Jade Whitlam, Hengameh Ilkhani, Amy Bogaard and Mike Charles -- Phytolith indicators of plant resource use at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani / Lisa-Marie Shillito and Sarah Elliott -- Molluscs from Sheikh-e Abad and Jani / Lisa-Marie Shillito, with contributions from Janet Ridout-Sharpe and Martin Bell -- Heavy residue analysis from Sheikh-e Abad / Helen R.S. Williams -- Site management and local impact at Sheikh-e Abad / Michael Seymour -- Networks of neolithic engagement / Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iran.
Neolithic period -- Iran -- Kirmānshāhān (Province)
HISTORY -- Civilization.
HISTORY / Ancient / General
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Neolithic period
SUBJECT Sheikh-e Abad Site (Iran) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2013002766
Jani Site (Iran) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2013002767
Iran -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067883
Subject Iran
Iran -- Jani Site
Iran -- Kirmānshāh (Province)
Iran -- Sheikh-e Abad Site
Form Electronic book
Author Matthews, Roger, Dr., author, editor.
Matthews, Wendy, Dr., author, editor.
Muḥammadīʹfar, Yaʻqūb, 1970 or 1971- author, editor.
LC no. 2013041759
ISBN 9781782972242
1782972242
9781782972259
1782972250
9781782972266
1782972269