Excavations at the Prehistoric Mound of Chogha Bonut, Khuzestan, Iran : Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996

by Alizadeh, Abbas; Miller, Naomi F. (Con); Redding, Richard W. (Con); Rosen, Arlene Miller (Con)

• ISBN13: 9781885923233
• ISBN10: 1885923236
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, was a major contributor to the cultural development of the ancient Near East. Thanks to more than a century of archaeological investigation, Susiana is also comparatively the best known region in the entire area. Excavations at numerous sites, but primarily at Susa and Chogha Mish (OIP 101), in Susiana provided a long sequence of archaeological phases that span some 8,000 years, from early prehistoric times to the early Islamic period. The initial phases of the colonization of Susiana by early farmers, however, remained unknown until a series of excavations at Chogha Bonut pushed the earliest period of occupation of Susiana to the aceramic phase, ca. 7200 BC. The present publication presents and analyzes the results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut.

Author Biography

Abbas Alizadeh was Associate Curator and Research Associate at Harvard University's Semitic Museum and from 1991, has been a Research Associate (Senior Research Associate from 2000) at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Tables
Bibliography
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Khuzestan Environment	p. 13
Results of 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996 Excavations	p. 17
Post-Archaic Architecture at Chogha Bonut	p. 23
Architecture of the Archaic, Formative, and Aceramic Susiana	p. 33
Pottery	p. 43
Small Objects	p. 67
Administrative Technology	p. 85
Chipped Stone Industry	p. 91
Plant Remains from the 1996 Excavation	p. 123
Preliminary Phytolith Analysis	p. 129
First Report on Faunal Remains	p. 137
Radiocarbon Dating of the Susiana Sequence	p. 149
Index of Features and Layers from the 1996 Season	p. 151
Index of Loci from the 1976/77 and 1977/78 Seasons	p. 153
Index of Geographical Names	p. 159
Plates	p. 161
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