Metalworking, due to its special technical and production-related characteristics, played a very important role in ancient societies and the study of the archaeological evidence related to it is fundamental to understand ...

"Context" has been a major focus of archaeological theoretical studies since the early days of processualism or “New Archaeology". In both processual and post-processual archaeology, context is more than just a ...

Dasht-e Lut (Lut Desert) is archaeologically well-known in Near East thanks to the presence, on its western edge, of the Bronze Age urban centre of Shahdad. In 2012, the author launched a three-season ...

Pottery art in Iran reached its apex during the Seljuk and Kharazmshahi eras. In these two periods, artists produced high-quality wares,with Minai decorations which were ...

Tepe Yalfan is one of the Iron Age III sites at the southeast of Hamedan, at the junction of the Simin and Yalfan rivers. This site was excavated in 2006 and 2007, in the frame of the activities related to the construction ...

The ancient site of Toll-e Gap Kenareh is located 5 Km south-west of Persepolis and approximately 3 Km north-east of the city of Marvdasht, in the Kur River Basin. The first season of excavations at Toll-e Gap was carried ...