Peoples and Crafts in Period IVB at Hasanlu, Iran
Edited by Maude De Schauensee
Hardback (Published)
(October 2011)
ISBN: 9781934536179
8.46 x 10.98 inches
Price: $69.95
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The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has had a long-standing interest in the archaeology of Iran. In 1956, Robert H. Dyson, Jr., began excavations south of Lake Urmia at the large mounded site of Hasanlu. Although the results of these excavations await final publication, the Hasanlu Special Studies series-of which this monograph is the fourth volume-describes and analyzes specific aspects of technology, style, and iconography. This volume describes a group of ongoing research projects, most of which provide new information on Iron Age technology. A theme that runs through these studies is the degree to which ancient workers varied the composition of their products to create desirable colors and textures. The book begins with a description of the wooden furniture fragments along with fittings and decorative elements for furniture. It presents the first detailed description of the charred textiles, and places these textiles in their archaeological contexts, suggesting the roles that textiles may have played in daily life. Later chapters assess the significance of Hasanlu in the history of glassmaking, describe the archaeometallurgy of the Hasanlu IVB bronzes, and present a catalog of the bladed weapons. Also, the book presents the evidence for deliberate violence against individuals as indicated by their skeletal injuries and the results of a project undertaken to determine whether DNA could be used to obtain a better understanding of the population history at Hasanlu.
Maude de Schauensee served as Keeper, later the Fowler/Van Santvoord Keeper, of the Near Eastern Collections at the Penn Museum. She participated in six field seasons of The Hasanlu Project (1959-1974) and the 1967 field season of the University of Chicago at Selenkehiye, Syria. She serves as Associate Editor of the Hasanlu Publications. Her publications include Two Lyres from Ur (2003), Peoples and Crafts in Period IVB at Hasanlu, Iran (2011) for which she wrote two chapters and served as volume editor, and articles on material from the Period IVB levels at Hasanlu. Jennifer Swerida is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University and a Consulting Scholar of the Penn Museum. She is also Co-Director of the Bat Archaeological Project (Sultanate of Oman) and Assistant Director of the Nax.ivan Archaeological Project (Nax.ivan, Azerbaijan). Her research interests center on identity formation and alternative forms of social complexity in the Ancient Near East.
- Edited by Maude De Schauensee
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