Journal of Archaeological Studies

Artifacts recovered from the Bam surface survey and Tal Atashi excavations, as well as Kerman's discoveries, have sometimes been compared to the Neolithic industries of Balochistan, ... Read More

A Survey of Origin and Production of the PPN Shell Beads from Ali Kosh, Deh Luran Plain

Hafez Ghaderi; Hojjat Darabi

Volume 13, Issue 3 , September 2021, , Pages 193-210

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2020.298646.142856

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During Neolithic time, increasing knowledge and various interactions paved the ground for the new experiments and products as well as spread of commodities and different ideas. Across ... Read More During Neolithic time, increasing knowledge and various interactions paved the ground for the new experiments and products as well as spread of commodities and different ideas. Across the Near East, Neolithic archaeology has mostly focused on the beginning of domestication and sedentary life. Intensive interaction and exchange between societies, however, is amongst outcomes of Neolithization process that resulted in diffusion of some materials such as obsidian. To date, most of the researchers have taken the issue of long-distance contact in the light of geographical diffusion of obsidian, while various materials and commodities were exchanged via wide networks. In this regard, objects made of seashells are of particular importance. As a result of recent excavation at Ali Kosh, a great number of different beads of shell and stone was found...along with seated burials dated to the second half of the 8th millennium BC. Tiny disc-shaped samples constitute the most common beads in the assemblage. They were previously known as stone beads. However, our recent examination shows that they are mostly made of a kind of bivalve sea shell known as Spondylus sp. It seems that such beads were produced on the Pesian Gulf shores, as the closest habitat of the shell, and then were transported or exchanged as finished goods. As evidenced by the recent stratigraphy and human isotopic analysis inhabitants of Ali Kosh had a high level of mobility. This highlights the role of interaction and exchange networks through which beads were diffused across lowlands of southwestern Iran. Accordingly, the site yielded remains of 18 levels indicating subsequent short-term occupations. Furthermore, as by the isotopic analysis, some of the buried individuals seem to have emigrated from shorelines to the site. This highlights the role of interaction and exchange networks through which beads were diffused across lowlands of southwestern Iran. Prevalence of shell beads at Ali Kosh reminds us that obsidian was not the only main exchanged material in the early Neolithic. The main focus of the present article is investigation of production and origin of oyster beads from the pre-pottery Neolithic levels at Ali Kosh, Deh Luran Plain

The Burial Tradition in the Zoroastrian Religion, The Continuation of the Long Tradition of Secondary Burial during Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Periods

Mohammad Hossein Rezaei; Mohsen Sangbargan; Omran Garazhian

Volume 13, Issue 2 , September 2021, , Pages 245-270

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2021.275808.142677

Abstract

Burial traditions have not been formed all at once and in the long term numerous factors and variables have played a role in its formation and continuation or obsolescence. Among these ... Read More Burial traditions have not been formed all at once and in the long term numerous factors and variables have played a role in its formation and continuation or obsolescence. Among these factors, we can mention the influence and contacts made between different cultures, and in the meantime, Zoroastrian culture can not be an exception to this rule and it can be said that the burial practice in the Zoroastrian religion (Ossuary) probably has a long history among different ethnic groups and nations, and these cultures were influential in adopting the burial practice (Ossuary) in the Zoroastrian religion. Similar to the burial practice (Ossuary) in the Zoroastrian religion, it has been found in the Iranian plate and Levant and Central Asian in the Epipaleolithic period to the late Bronze Age. Therefore, the aim of this research is to evaluate the relationship between the secondary burial practice during the Epipaleolithic period and the time of the advent of Zoroastrian religion and its effect on the burial method in Zoroastrianism. Accordingly, the present research seeks to answer the following questions: How early on and how did the burial data of archaeology come from? And what is the connection between the method of the second burial and burial in Zoroastrianism?. The method of this research is descriptive-analytical, based on archaeological reports. In the present study, information was obtained from archaeological reports and published articles about various sites of Iran's plateau and Levant and Central Asia, of which secondary burials have been discovered. The philosophy of doing this burial method could be different or a reason other than respect for nature, and these secondary burials were probably carried out by non-sedentry groups that used permanent sites for burial and probably died somewhere outside the facility, and the possibility of transferring bodies to There were no grounds for burial, so the deceased were abandoned in the same place, and later, after the loss of soft tissues, the bones were collected and buried in the graves in the site

Archaeological Evidence in Timing of Seymarreh Landslide

Khoda Karam Mazaheri

Volume 8, Issue 2 , March 2017, , Pages 151-165

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.61774

Abstract

Seymarreh landslide is one of the important natural disasters that happened at east south of Seymarreh valley at Darrehshahr town ship in the past. This landslide has attracted attention ... Read More

Ancient DNA Analysis of Goat Bones in Kashan and Qazvin plain in the Neolithic Period

javad hoseinzadeh sadati; Hassan Fazeli Nashli; Mostafa Montazer Zohori; Shohre Zare

Volume 7, Issue 2 , December 2016, , Pages 33-45

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2015.57746

Abstract

One of the interdisciplinary approaches which recently had a key role in resolving of archaeological issues, especially domestication process, was Archaeogenetics. Caprines were domesticated ... Read More

Shift in the Bladelet Production Process from Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic in the Izeh Plain of Kuzistan, Iran

Mozhgan Jayez

Volume 5, Issue 2 , March 2014, , Pages 39-57

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2014.50392

Abstract

The Organization of stone tool production is one of the most important aspects of lithic assemblage studies. Reduction process indicates how lithic material was prepared and transported ... Read More

Early villages and prehistoric sites in the Abharroud Basin, North West of Iranian central plateau

Shokouh Khosravi; Hamid Khatib Shahidi; Hamed Vahdatinasab; Sajjad Alibaigi; Abolfazl Aali

Volume 4, Issue 1 , July 2012, , Pages 131-154

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2012.35379

Abstract

The Abharroud basin is an important region in the archeological studies of northwestern outskirts of the central plateau, and west and northwest of Iran. Considering its environmental ... Read More

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Analysis of Neolithic Chipped Stones of South Lut and their Comparative Study with Southern Zagros Industries

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A Survey of Origin and Production of the PPN Shell Beads from Ali Kosh, Deh Luran Plain

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The Burial Tradition in the Zoroastrian Religion, The Continuation of the Long Tradition of Secondary Burial during Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Periods

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Archaeological Evidence in Timing of Seymarreh Landslide

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Ancient DNA Analysis of Goat Bones in Kashan and Qazvin plain in the Neolithic Period

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Shift in the Bladelet Production Process from Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic in the Izeh Plain of Kuzistan, Iran

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Early villages and prehistoric sites in the Abharroud Basin, North West of Iranian central plateau

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