Archeoseismicity and environmental crises at the Sialk Mounds, Central Iranian Plateau, since the Early Neolithic

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2845-2858

  Berberian, Manuel ^a,b   Shahmirzadi, Sadegh Malek ^c   Nokandeh, Jebra'il ^d   Djamali, Morteza ^e  

^a Ocean County College   (United States)

^b Anduni Grung Enterprise   (United States)

^c Iranian Center for Archaeological Research   (Iran)

^d Handicraft and Tourism Organization   (Iran)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Active faulting; Archeology; Archeoseismicity; Climate change; Environmental crises; Seismicity; Sialk, Iran

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCONTINUITY; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; NEOLITHIC; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SKELETON; STRATIGRAPHY;

IRANIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 84862155913     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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