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Volume 13 / Number 3-4

1971

Special Edition: UPM Excavations in Iran

On The Cover: Achaemenian bronze ibex head from western Iran. H. 29.5 cm. 6th century BC. University Museum collection.

Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Aslan Afshar

Letter from His Excellency, Aslan Afshar, Ambassador of Iran: Letter from His Excellency, Aslan Afshar, Ambassador of Iran

July 27, 1971 The Celebration of the 2500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

Iran — Maps and Chronology: Sites in the Parthian and Sassanian Empires

NEOLITHIC ca. 9000 B.C. Hunters and Gatherers of Seal and Red Deer. Belt and Hotu Caves         […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: T. Cuyler Young, Jr.

The Search for Understanding: Excavating the Second Millennium

Iran is a large country with a rich historic and prehistoric past. Archaeologists are making a beginning at understanding that […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Edith Porada

Aspects of Elamite Art and Archaeology

In Sumerian texts we read about the coun­try NIM, the wondrous mountain area which we call Iran today. The biblical […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Louis D. Levine

The Iron Age Revealed

The growth of archaeological research in Iran in the last quarter century has been one of the most exciting developments […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Oscar W. Muscarella

Qalatgah: An Urartian Site in Northwestern Iran

Modern archaeological interest in Urartu and its culture has several phases. The first, which lasted until around 1945, started in […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Carl Nylander

The Achaemenid Empire

In spite of a long and creative past it is only with the advent of the dynasty named Achaemenid after […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Edward Keall

Partho-Sassanian Archaeology: A New Phase

To speak of a discipline of Partho-Sassanian archaeology is really to use a misnomer from the very start. There is […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Charles K. Wilkinson

Islamic Archaeology in Iran

Islamic archaeology did not fully develop in Iran until after 1930 when the French monopoly of excavation in that country […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Brian I. Spooner

Cultural Anthropology in Iran: Beginnings and Prospects

Ethnographic interest in Iran has a long his­tory. It goes back to the first European travelers in the Middle Ages […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

The University Museum Excavations in Iran

1931–1932 Tepe Hissar (Damghan), Director Erich F. Schmidt; with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the American Institute for Persian […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

Iran: Eleven Thousand Years of Cultural History

In October of this year, world attention will be directed toward the achievements of Iran’s ancient civilization through the celebration […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Philip E.L. Smith

Iran, 9000-4000 B.C.: The Neolithic

The five millennia between approximately 9000 B.C. and 4000 B.C. were vital ones in the history of the Middle East […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky and Philip L. Kohl

The Early Bronze Age of Iran as Seen from Tepe Yahya

The last centuries before 3000 B.C. were of capital importance in Iran and Mesopotamia—for in both there arose contemporary and […]

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