The chronology and environmental background of iron age settlement in Southeastern Iran and the question of the origin of the Qanat irrigation system

Iranica Antiqua

Volumn 40, Issue , 2005, Pages 217-231

  Magee, Peter ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649968843     PISSN: 00210870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/IA.40.0.583210     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. BEALE, T.W., 1986: Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975. The Early Periods.Cambridge, Mass.
2. BESENVAL, R. and Francfort, H-P., 1994: The Nad-il Ali Surkh Dagh: A Bronze Monumental Platform in Central Asia?" In: JM Kenoyer (ed) From Sumer to Meluhha: Contributions to the Archaeology of South and West Asia in Memory of George F.Dales, Jr.Wisconsin, pp. 3-14.
3. BOUCHARLAT, R. and LOMBARD, P., 1985: The Oasis of Al-Ain in the Iron Age: Excavations at Rumeilah, 1981-1983. Archaeology in the United Arab Emirates 4, pp. 44-73.
4. BOUCHARLAT, R., 1989: Cairns et pseudo-cairns du Fars. L'utilisation des tombes de surface au 1er millénaire de notre ère." In: L de Meyer and E Haerinck (eds) Archaeologia Iranica et Orientalis. Miscellanea in Honorem Louis Vanden Berghe.Gent, pp. 675-712.
5. BRIANT, P., 2001: Polybe X.28 et les qanats. Le témoignage et ses limites. In: P Briant (ed.) Irrigation et drainage dans l'Antiquite. Qanats et canalisation souterraines en Iran, en Egypte et en Grèce.Paris, pp. 15-40.
6. BUCK, C.E. et al., 1991: Combining Archaeological and Radiocarbon Information: A Bayesian Approach to Calibration Antiquity 65, pp. 808-821.
7. CALDWELL, J.R. and SARRAF, M., 1967: Exploration of Excavation Area B. In: JR Caldwell (ed) Investigations at Tal-I Iblis.Illinois, pp. 272-308.
8. CALDWELL, J.R., 1967: Investigations at Tal-I Iblis. Illinois
9. CORDOBA, J., 2002: Paysans, bergers, colporteurs: La view d'un village de l'Age du Fer dans le péninsule d'Oman à travers l'archéologie interdisciplinaire (Am 1-Thuqeibah, Sharjah, EAU). Paper presented at the Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient NearEast, Paris.
10. COSTA, P.M., 1983: Notes on traditional hydraulics and agriculture in Oman. World Archaeology 14, pp. 273-295.
11. CRESSEY, G.B., 1958: Qanats, karez and foggaras. The geographical review 48, pp. 27-44.
12. DALES, G., 1977: New Excavations at Nad-I Ali (Sorkh Dagh) Afghanistan. Berkeley.
13. DANIELS, C.M., 1970: The Garamantes of Fezzan: excavations at Zincherga 1965-1967.The Antiquities Journal L, pp. 36-66.
14. DANIELS, C.M., 1989: Excavation and fieldwork amongst the Garamantes. Libyan Studies 20, pp. 45-61.
15. FRANKE-VOGT, U., 2001: The Southern Indus Valley during the later 2nd and 1st Millennia B.C. In R Eichmann and H Parzinger, Migration und Kulturtransfer. Der Wandel vorder- und zentralasiatischer Kulturen im Umbruch vom 2. zum 1. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend, eds.Bonn, pp. 247-290
16. GHIRSHMAN, R., 1939: Fouilles de Nad-i Ali dans le Seistan. Revue des Arts Asiatiques 13, pp. 10-22.
17. GOBLOT, H. 1979: Les Qanats. Une technique d'acquisition de l'eau. Paris.
18. GREMASCHI, M.,: Holocene climatic change in an archaeological landscape: the case study of Wadi Tanezuft and its drainage basin (se Fezzan, Libyan Sahara). Libyan Studies 32, pp. 3-28.
19. LAMBERG-KARLOVSKY, C.C. and MAGEE, P., 1999: The Iron Age Platforms at Tepe Yahya. Iranica Antiqua 34, pp. 41-53.
20. LASSOE J., 1951: The irrigation system at Ulhu. 8th century BC. Journal of Cuneiform Studies V, pp. 21-32.
21. LIGHTFOOT, D., 2000: The Origin and Diffusion of Qanats in Arabia: New Evidence from the Northern and Southern Peninsula. The Geographical Journal. 166, pp. 1-20.
22. LOMBARD, P., 1982: Iron Age Stone Vessels from the Oman Peninsula: A Preliminary Note." Proceedings of the Seminar of Arabian Studies 12, pp. 39-48.
23. LÜCKGE, A.H. et al., 2001: Monsoonal Variability in the Northeastern Arabian Sea during the Past 5000 Years: Geochemical Evidence from Laminated Sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 167, pp. 273-286.
24. MAGEE, P., 1995: Cultural Change, Variability and Settlement in Southeastern Arabia. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sydney.
25. MAGEE, P., 1999: Settlement patterns, polities and regional complexity in the southeast Arabian Iron Age. Paléorient 24, pp. 49-60.
26. MAGEE, P., 2003: New Chronometric data defining the Iron Age II period in southeastern Arabia. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 33, pp. 1-10.
27. MAGEE, P., 2004: The Iron Age settlement at Tepe Yahya.Cambridge, Mass.
28. MAGEE, P. et al. 1996: New evidence for specialised ceramic production and exchange in the southeast Arabian Iron Age. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 9, pp. 1-15.
29. MAGEE, P. and CARTER, R., 1999: Agglomeration and Regionalism: Southeastern Arabia between 1400 and 1100 B.C. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 10, pp. 161-179.
30. MAHDAVI, M. and ANDERSEN, E.W., 1983: The water supply system in the margin of Dasht-i Kawir (Central Iran). Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, pp. 131-147.
31. MATTHEWS, R., 2002: Zebu: Harbingers of doom in Bronze Age western Asia. Antiquity 76, pp. 438-447.
32. MATTINGLY, D.J. et al., 2000: The Fezzan project 2000. Report on the fourth season of work. Libyan Studies 31, pp. 102-120.
33. MATTINGLY, D.J. et al., 2001: The Fezzan project 2001. Report on the fifth season of work. Libyan Studies 32, pp. 133-154.
34. MATTINGLY, D.J. et al., 2002: Radiocarbon dates from Fezzan, southern Libya. Libyan Studies 33, pp. 9-19.
35. MEADOW, R., 1986: The geographical and paleoenvironmental setting of Tepe Yahya. In Beale TW Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975. The Early Periods.Cambridge, pp. 21-38.
36. POTTS, D.T., 1990: A prehistoric mound in the Emirate of Umm al-Quwain. UAE. Copenhagen.
37. POTTS, D.T., 1991: Further excavations at Tell Abraq. Copenhagen.
38. POZO, M. and CORDOBA, J., 2002: Architecture, implements, and geological constraints: a provenance study and archaeological investigation of the uses of materials of an Iron Age village (AMl-Thuqaybah, Emirate of Sharjah, UAE), Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 32, pp. 63-74.
39. PRICKETT, M., 1986: Settlement during the early periods In Beale TW Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975. The Early Periods.Cambridge, pp. 215-246.
40. PRIESTMAN, S., 2003: The Williamson Collection project Sasanian and Islamic survey ceramics from Southern Iran, current research. Iran 41, pp. 345-348.
41. PRIESTMAN, S. and KENNET, D., 2002: The Williamson Collection Project: Sasanian and Islamic pottery from Southern Iran. Iran 40, pp. 265-267.
42. SAJJADI, S.M., 1987: Prehistoric Settlements in the Bardsir Plain, Southeastern Iran East and West 37, pp. 11-129.
43. SALVINI, M., 2001: Pas de qanats en Urartu! In: Briant P (ed.) Irrigation et drainage dans l'Antiquité. Qanats et canalisation souterraines en Iran, en Egypte et en Grèce.Paris, pp. 143-150.
44. STEIN A., 1934a: Archaeological reconnaissances in southern Persia. The Geographical Journal 83, pp. 119-134.
45. STEIN, A., 1934b: The Indo-Iranian borderlands: Their prehistory in the light of geography and recent explorations. Journal of the Royal Anthropoligcal Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 64, pp. 179-202.
46. STEIN, A., 1937: Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Iran, Carried Out and Recorded with the Support of Harvard University and the British Museum. London
47. SYKES, P., 1902 Ten Thousand Miles in Persia, or Eight Years in Iran. London: J. Murray.
48. WUTTMANN, M. et al., 2000: The qanats of Any-Manawir, KhargaOasis, Egypt. Journal of Achaemaenid Studies and Researches volume 1. on-line.
49. YASIN, W., 2002. al-'aflaj fi daulat al imarat al mutahida dirasa azaria fi anzia alri alqadima (in Arabic). Abu Dhabi.
50. ZIOLKOWSKI, M.C., 2001: The soft-stone vessels from Sharm, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 12, pp. 10-86.