Research Affiliate, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
About
Research interests: I continue to work on compositional analysis of pottery from Iran using neutron activation analysis. I work mainly on material from the Kur River Basin and the site of Malyan in highland Fars Province, and from the Late Chalcolithic site of Surezha in Iraqi Kurdistan. One focus of this research is to define the regional geography of ceramic production and distribution in emergent complex societies. A second, more specific, focus is examining ceramic ring scrapers—a potter’s tool used throughout greater Mesopotamia from the end of the 5th to the beginning of the 3rd millennia BC—to determine when and where full-time potters appeared in the craft economies of ancient Near Eastern societies.
Works In Progress:
“Chapter 4: Stratigraphy and Ceramics: The H1 Sounding.” Ms prepared for John R. Alden, ed., Anshan in the 2nd Millennium BC: The GHI Excavations at Tal-e Malyan, Iran. Malyan Excavation Reports Series, Vol. IV, University of Pennsylvania.
“The Kur River Basin in the Late 4th and 3rd Millennia BC—Ceramics, Settlement, and Socio-Political Organization.” Ms submitted for publication in Cameron Petrie, ed., Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours.
“INAA Analysis of Ceramics From Three Iranian Sites: Compositional Signatures and Evidence for Ceramic Exchange as Seen From Tal-e Geser,” by John R. Alden, Leah Minc, and Abbas Alizadeh. Ms submitted for publication in Abbas Alizadeh, Final Report on the Excavations at Tal-e Geser.
Affiliation(s)
- Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
