The book “Political Archaeology of the Middle East" by Mehdi Mortazavi (Corresponding Author), Fariba Mosapour Negari, and Goodarz Hadadi Nasab, as the first comprehensive attempt in Persian, examines the complex and ...

Petroglyphs, as one of the earliest forms of art, are highly valued evidence in fields such as archaeology, art history, and anthropology. A significant number of petroglyphs have thus far been identified and documented ...

Periodic travel and movement between various summer and winter residences were central practices of the Ilkhanid court, as evidenced by numerous accounts in the chronicles from this era and throughout the reign of all ...

During the Bronze Age, the Sistan civilisation experienced significant cultural and economic development, with Shahr-i Sokhta emerging as a major production and commercial hub. This site played a crucial role in facilitating ...

The southern region of the Caspian Sea is regarded as a potential dispersal corridor through which humans migrated from western Eurasia to Central Asia during the Pleistocene epoch. In the last decade, new research has ...

The third millennium BCE in the Kur River basin of Fars is marked by the two cultures of Banesh and Kaftari.Scholars have assumed a gap in the chronological sequence between these two periods, suggesting that sedentarycommunities ...

This study is an archaeometric research on the Neolithic pottery in Kashmir Valley, India to determine the firingtechnology and mineral composition, which is influenced by firing temperature and clayey sediment compositionthrough ...

The main aim of the author in this article is to emphasize how little of the “silk" product up to now was recognized and identified at the level of material culture archaeologically collected in the places and sites from ...

In 1857, the French artist Charles Cournault published a plea for a French mission to Persepolis. The aimof the mission was to obtain examples of relief sculpture, like those he had seen in the British Museum, for theLouvre ...

Volume 14, Issue 2, 2024I am delighted and honoured to present this issue of the Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies to you, our esteemed readers. In this note, I will introduce the valuable achievements and diverse ...