Research Paper
Deciphering an Sassanian’s Ostracon Found from Teppe Hegmataneh, Hamedan, Iran
Deciphering an Sassanian’s Ostracon Found from Teppe Hegmataneh, Hamedan, Iran

Rasool Bashash Kanzaq

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 1-9

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35924

Abstract
  The terminology of "Middle Persian" or "Parsic" for Sassanian inscriptions and writings are well known within the Iranian and foreign scholars of linguistics and archaeologists. But ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Archaeological Project of the Mehran Plain (APMP)
The Archaeological Project of the Mehran Plain (APMP)

Ardeshir Javanmardzadeh; Hassan Fazeli Nashli; Hojjat Darabi

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 11-30

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35939

Abstract
  Aiming to identify and record the Prehistoric sites of the Mehrān Plain, the archaeological survey was carried out During the March of 2010; this, has lid to identifying 36 archaeological ...  Read More
Research Paper
Transformation Processes: An Overview
Transformation Processes: An Overview

Mohsen Dana

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 31-48

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35941

Abstract
  TransformationProcessesdebate ontheinteractionsbetween archaeological artifacts  and structures based on their natural and cultural environments. These processes provide ...  Read More
Research Paper
Evaluation of Dej-Shahr or Hassan Abad Castle Architectural Structure
Evaluation of Dej-Shahr or Hassan Abad Castle Architectural Structure

Mohammad Ebrahim Zarei

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 49-68

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35943

Abstract
    Kurdistan Province is located in western Iran and its geographical position as a corridor has always been routs of attacks by western invaders from the most ancient times including ...  Read More
Research Paper
Location, Form and Spatial Organization of Kelaar City in the Early Islamic Centuries
Location, Form and Spatial Organization of Kelaar City in the Early Islamic Centuries

Hassan Karimiyan; Sara Saghaee

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 69-88

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35944

Abstract
    Historical sources of early Islamic centuries have been introduced “Kelaar” as an flourishing city in the mountainous area between Tabarestan and Deilam which nowadays ...  Read More
Research Paper
Stratigraphy of Deh Nou Archeological Mound (Khuzestan)
Stratigraphy of Deh Nou Archeological Mound (Khuzestan)

Behzad Mofidi Nasrabadi; Azita Mirzaii

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 89-108

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35946

Abstract
  Moreover, inscribed bricks of two Elamite kings, Šutruk-Nahhunte and his son, Kutir-Nahhunte, were also found that all of them referring to construction and repairs of a temple ...  Read More
Research Paper
From the Pen of Historians to the Pickax of Archaeologists
From the Pen of Historians to the Pickax of Archaeologists

Hekmatollah Molla Salehi

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 109-126

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35947

Abstract
  Archaeology and history might have many things to do with each other in historical past and present field. Both of them belong to the same category of our historical knowledge. Pickax ...  Read More
Research Paper
Settlement Patterns of the Late and Middle Bronze Age Sites of Sarfirouzabad Plain of Kermanshah, West Central Zagros, Iran
Settlement Patterns of the Late and Middle Bronze Age Sites of Sarfirouzabad Plain of Kermanshah, West Central Zagros, Iran

Mohammad Amin Mirghaderi; Parasto Hosseini; Sajad Alibeigi; Meisam Nikzad

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 127-144

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35948

Abstract
    Archaeological landscape of western Iran is representative of great and important socio-cultural changes in various periods of prehistory in Iran. The region that the Central ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Saki Abad Site at the Choqakhor Pond’s Basin: Evidence of a Chalcolithic Nomadic Settlement in the southern Zagros
The Saki Abad Site at the Choqakhor Pond’s Basin: Evidence of a Chalcolithic Nomadic Settlement in the southern Zagros

Ali Asghar Nouroozi; Mohsen Heydari; Khosro Ahmadi

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 145-164

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35949

Abstract
  Sakiabad is one of the most important sites in the Choqakhor pond’s basin which show remains of nomadic settlement in the Chalcolithic period. Salvage excavation was carried out ...  Read More
Research Paper
Archaeometrical Study of Achaemenid Glazed Bricks Found from Tall-e-Ajori Excavation in Persepolis
Archaeometrical Study of Achaemenid Glazed Bricks Found from Tall-e-Ajori Excavation in Persepolis

Soodabeh Yousefnejad; Reza Vahidzadeh; Mohammad Hasan Talebian

Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2013, Pages 165-179

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2013.35950

Abstract
  Achaemenid glazed bricks of archaeological excavation of Tall-e-Ajori in Persepolis city were studied by multiple instrumental analysis methods  such as XRF, XRD, SEM-EDS, ICP ...  Read More