Social transformation and interregional interaction in the Qazvin plain during the 5th, 4th and 3rd millennia B.C.

Archaologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan

Volumn 37, Issue , 2005, Pages 7-26

  Nashli, Hassan Fazeli ^a   Sereshti, Rahmat Abbasnezhad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Chalcolithic; Dor n b d; Early Bronze Age; Indigenous societies; Kura araxes; Migration; Neolithic; Qabrest n; Qazvin plain; World system theory; Z e

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949330943     PISSN: 14342758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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