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    The Neolithic Settlement of Highland SW Iran: New Evidence from the Mamasani District
    (British Institute of Persian Studies, 2006) Weeks, Lloyd; Alizadeh, Karim; Niakan, Lily; Alamdari, Kourosh; Zeidi, Mohsen; Khosrowzadeh, Alireza; McCall, Bernadette
    Since November 2002, the Mamasani Archaeological Project, a collaborative research initiative between the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research (ICAR) and the University of Sydney, has been conducting fieldwork in highland SW Iran (see Fig. 1). This article takes the opportunity to present a discussion of one facet of our fieldwork, specifically, the evidence for the earliest Neolithic communities in highland Fars.
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    Social Inequality at Köhne Shahar, an Early Bronze Age Settlement in Iranian Azerbaijan
    (2015-05-19) Alizadeh, Karim; Ur, Jason A.; Lamberg-Karlovsky, Clifford C.; Meadow, Richard H.; Kohl, Philip L.
    Due to increasing investigations and studies of the Kura-Araxes cultural communities, our information about this enigmatic archaeological culture has increased in many respects. Its interactions and regional variations in terms of cultural materials have been analyzed by many scholars. However, our knowledge about its societal variations is still very limited. We do not yet know much about social dynamics behind its material culture that spread out through vast regions in the Caucasus and the Near East. Indeed, there are some fundamental questions about the Kura-Araxes cultural communities that need further investigation. To address these questions, I focus on social inequality and its material manifestations through data collected from Köhne Shahar a Kura-Araxes site in the Chaldran area of the Iranian Azerbaijan. This study uses new data collected from one season of survey and three seasons of excavations at Köhne Shahar to examine the material manifestation of social inequality. Excavations at Köhne Shahar have generated data which allows me to present some preliminary conclusions regarding the state of social inequality at the settlement. I concentrate on four major features of the site, stratigraphy and chronology, fortification wall and external threat, specialized craft production, and residential segregation. Results from investigation and analyses of these evidence suggest that external threat and conflict could have played a role in development of political complexity (power inequality) at Köhne Shahar that could have been extended to control over the economy, especially craft production. I further argue that evidence of residential segregation at the site suggest social segmentation and hierarchical ordering within the community of Köhne Shahar. Overall evidence indicates that the site is a special and a complex version of Kura-Araxes Cultural Communities. I further argue that there is a great potential at Köhne Shahar for addressing social complexity and I discuss that further investigations at the site may shed more light on social dynamics in the Kura-Araxes cultural communities.
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    Ultan Qalası: A Fortified Site in the Sasanian Borderlands (Mughan Steppe, Iranian Azerbaijan)
    (British Institute of Persian Studies, 2011) Alizadeh, Karim
    Our knowledge of Sasanian imperial strategy continues to grow as a result of a range of projects investigating the frontiers of the Sasanian Empire. Understanding of the north-western fringe of the Empire in particular is being increased by the Mughan Steppe Archaeological Project. Surveys have shown that the fortified settlement of Ultan Qalasi is the largest of a series of fortified sites that lie adjacent to irrigation canals that stretch across the steppe, and excavations have provided relative and absolute dating evidence for the establishment of the settlement during the Sasanian period. This paper introduces the Mughan Steppe Archaeological Project and presents the stratigraphy of Ultan Qalasi, It also situates this site within the broader socio-political context of the southern Caucasus in the first millennium AD, and the wider world of the Sasanian Empire.
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    Formation and Destruction of Pastoral and Irrigation Landscapes on the Mughan Steppe, North-Western Iran
    (Antiquity Publications, 2007) Alizadeh, Karim; Ur, Jason
    CORONA satellite photography taken in the 1960s continues to reveal buried ancient landscapes and sequences of landscapes – some of them no longer visible. In this new survey of the Mughan Steppe in north-western Iran, the authors map a ‘signature landscape’ belonging to Sasanian irrigators, and discover that the traces of the nomadic peoples that succeeded them also show up on CORONA – in the form of scoops for animal shelters. The remains of these highly significant pastoralists have been virtually obliterated since the CORONA surveys by a new wave of irrigation farming. Such archaeological evaluation of a landscape has grave implications for the heritage of grassland nomads and the appreciation of their impact on history.