Twelve proto-Elamite tablets and fragments were found during the 2006-07 excavation at Tape Sofalin in the northernCentral Iranian Plateau. The form and content of these tablets is entirely consistent with that of the standard and late proto-Elamite tablets from Susa, except TSF 11, which we date to the Susa II/GodinV Period. Although all of the inscribedobjects from Tape Sofalin published here...

the archaeological mound of sofalin south of the alborz mountains of northern iran (eastern rey plain) sheds considerablelight on at least four problems connected with the emergence of complex societies in this part of iran. the first, it helpsfill a chronological gap in an important archaeological sequence by revealing a previously unidentified late fourth andthird millennium b.c. sequence of ...

the present article investigates the administrative structure of the pottery mound from an administrative management point of view. data obtained from excavation of the pottery mound has generated an extensive archeological databank relating to the beginning of the historical era with a focus on the emergence of management and administrative systems in the central iranian plateau. in the proto-...

writing system that we know to be a derived one. This early branching point is thus the equivalent of speciation in biological evolution. The separate writing systems of these neighbouring regions must have been mutually incomprehensible. Over a short time span — three centuries at most, but probably much less — the proto-Elamite script spread across Iran, offering a prime example of cultural d...

Prehistoric archaeological sites in the center of the Iranian Plateau suddenly disappeared around the end of the 4th millennium BCE. At Tepe Sialk, near Kashan, the last cultural period, namely Sialk IV - probably established around 3400 BCE after the last settlements of Sialk III6-7b - was abandoned approximately after 500 years. The material culture of this period, known as Proto-Elamite peri...

The archaeological mound of Sofalin south of the Alborz Mountains of Northern Iran (Eastern Rey plain) sheds considerablelight on at least four problems connected with the emergence of complex societies in this part of Iran. The first, it helpsfill a chronological gap in an important archaeological sequence by revealing a previously unidentified late fourth andthird millennium B.C. sequence of ...

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The archaeometallurgy of copper have been pioneer technologies in ancient Iran and goes back to about ten thousand years ago in Iranian Plateau [1, 2]. The Haft Tappeh Middle Elamite Site is located in Southwest Iran and have been an important city belonging to early phase of Middle Elamite period (14th century BCE) [3, 4]. Based on various metallurgical evidences found in archaeological excava...

a survey and analysis of the ancient iranian religion calls for a profound familiarity with the elamite religion and its gods. elamite beliefs played an important role in forming the iranian religion between the 4th millennium bc and the advent of the indo-iranians on the iranian plateau. in this paper, we examine the elamite religious background and the major gods and goddesses that were worsh...

One of the less recognized attributes of the scholar honored in this volume is his lively interest in and appreciation of Near Eastern fauna; anyone who in his presence has mentioned some Iraqi creature will have with pleasure made this discovery. Pressed as he has been in past years both as author and as editor to see to publication hundreds of articles and monographs, above all concerning the...