Research Paper
A Structural Analysis of the Late Early Bronze Age
 Pottery from Kohna Shahar, West Azerbaijan, Iran
A Structural Analysis of the Late Early Bronze Age Pottery from Kohna Shahar, West Azerbaijan, Iran

Hakimeh Afsharinezhad; Bahram Ajorloo; Ahmad Jahangiri; Mehdi Razani; Karim Alizadeh

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 1-17

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.141742.142256

Abstract
  Systematic excavations of 2012 and 2014 at the Early Bronze Age site of Kohna Shahar, situated in northwestern quadrant of West Azerbaijan Province, have brought to light new evidence. ...  Read More
Research Paper
Locating Simaš Kingdom of Ellipi in Khorram Abad,
and the Possibility of Being One with Elamite Simaški
Locating Simaš Kingdom of Ellipi in Khorram Abad, and the Possibility of Being One with Elamite Simaški

mohamad bahrami; Mousa sabzi; Mohammadmehdi Tavasoli

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 19-35

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64003

Abstract
  Following recent excavations at Falak al-Aflak, Khorram Abad, some evidences revealed indicating a fortification contemporary to findings of Babajan III, considering characteristic ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Chronological Explanation of The First Millennium BC Cultures of Nir County, Ardebil
A Chronological Explanation of The First Millennium BC Cultures of Nir County, Ardebil

Akbar Pourfaraj

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 37-54

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64004

Abstract
  This study uses background data collectd from a field work carried out in Boiniyoghon castle. Three seasons of excavations (2004-2007) revealed valuable remains from the Middle Bronze ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Investigation on the Shahr-e Gur Ceremonial Nine Domical Building
An Investigation on the Shahr-e Gur Ceremonial Nine Domical Building

Asadollah Jodaki Azizi; Seyyed Rasool Mousavi Haji; Afshin Ebrahimi

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 55-74

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64005

Abstract
  Firuz Abad or Shahr-e Gur is an important city founded by Ardashir Papakan. Despite of researches on Gur and spatial structure of the city, there is ambiguity about function of its ...  Read More
Research Paper
Interaction between Humans and Environment: Spatial Environmental Analysis of Neolithic to Bronze Age sites of Laran County, Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province
Interaction between Humans and Environment: Spatial Environmental Analysis of Neolithic to Bronze Age sites of Laran County, Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province

Mohsen Heydari Dastenaei; Mehdi Mortazavi

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 75-92

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.137361.142235

Abstract
  Laran County in Highland Zagros in Bakhtiari region consist of two major rivers; Karun and zayandeh Roud and Perhaps one of the few areas of the country that has not witnesed archaeological ...  Read More
Research Paper
Settlement Pattern Study of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Sites From The Southeastern Margin of Malayer Plain
Settlement Pattern Study of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Sites From The Southeastern Margin of Malayer Plain

Majid Sarikhani; Mahmood Heydarian; parvaneh Ahmad tajari

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 93-112

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64007

Abstract
  Central Zagros and its eastern regions have relatively a favorable environmental condition for the formation of ancient settlements. One of these regions is Malayer intermountain plain ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Overview of the Traditions and Rituals of Burial Practice in South Eastern of Iran with Looking at the Neighboring Civilizations (Fourth and Third millennium BC)
An Overview of the Traditions and Rituals of Burial Practice in South Eastern of Iran with Looking at the Neighboring Civilizations (Fourth and Third millennium BC)
Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 113-132

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64008

Abstract
  The present paper intends to highlight excavations on cemeteries and the situation and condition of burial corpses to figure out the social behavior of the human past in the south-eastern ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Analytical Approach to the Study of Chalcolithic Data from
the Harsin Plain
An Analytical Approach to the Study of Chalcolithic Data from the Harsin Plain
Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 133-149

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64009

Abstract
  One of the main goals of Harsin archaeological survey in the Gamasiab River Basin has been to understand the cultural relations of the basin with the adjacent plains and areas during ...  Read More
Research Paper
Art – Industry of Textile in the Period of Shah Abbas Safavid (978-1038 AH)
Art – Industry of Textile in the Period of Shah Abbas Safavid (978-1038 AH)

Hamid Reza Safakish; forough yazdani

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 151-165

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.205927.142288

Abstract
  Shah Abbas Safavid period can be known as the golden age of textile industry-art in Iran. During his government, he provided the necessities for growth and development of textile in ...  Read More
Research Paper
Studying the Ancient Metallurgy of Qazvin Plain Based on the Metal Samples Discovered from The Iron Age II Graves of Sagzabad Cemetery
Studying the Ancient Metallurgy of Qazvin Plain Based on the Metal Samples Discovered from The Iron Age II Graves of Sagzabad Cemetery

Talhe Ghodousiyan; Ahad Samadi; Hasan Talai

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 167-187

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64011

Abstract
  Ancient metallurgy is one of the technological processes were seen from discovered natural native copper in Tappeh Zagheh (6th millennium B.C.). It was continued progressively in Tappeh ...  Read More
Research Paper
Multiple Identification Alternatives for Two Sassanid Equestrians on Fīrūzābād I Relief: A Heraldic Approach
Multiple Identification Alternatives for Two Sassanid Equestrians on Fīrūzābād I Relief: A Heraldic Approach

Rezā Kalāni

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 189-209

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64012

Abstract
  Unlike the king himself, the identity of other figures carved out of Sassanid reliefs has mostly been controversial. This study attempts to resolve one of such controversial discussions ...  Read More
Research Paper
Distribution of Uruk Material Culture and it's Cultural and 
Political Interplay with Kura-Araxes Tradition
Distribution of Uruk Material Culture and it's Cultural and Political Interplay with Kura-Araxes Tradition

Sepideh Maziar

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 211-231

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64013

Abstract
  In the fourth Millennium BC, as the societies became more complex and with the formation of Uruk culture and the sophisticated social and economic mechanisms behind it, we are confronted ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Epistemological Approach to Concept of Material and Meaning in Archaeology
An Epistemological Approach to Concept of Material and Meaning in Archaeology
Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 233-250

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64014

Abstract
  This paper demonatrates an Epistemological approach to the concept of material and meaning in archaeology. The starting point and the basic objective of this article is briefly concentrated ...  Read More
Research Paper
Evidence of Economic Enterprise Activity in the Proto- Elamite Tablets of Susa
Evidence of Economic Enterprise Activity in the Proto- Elamite Tablets of Susa

zehra mirashe; Kamaleddin Niknami; Bahman Firouzmandy Shirejin

Volume 9, Issue 1 , August 2017, Pages 251-264

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2017.64015

Abstract
  Considering the boom in the agricultural productions in the plains of Susiana, it seems that the proto-Elamite economic system is similar to that of feudal societies. In such a system, ...  Read More