by Peter Magee
general editor C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
contributions by Peter Grave
Harvard University Press, 2004
Paper: 978-0-87365-550-7
Library of Congress Classification DS262.Y3M34 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 935

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Tepe Yahya provides a stratigraphic sequence that stretches some 6,000 years, from the Neolithic period to the early centuries AD. As a result, the site is critical for understanding cultural processes in southeastern Iran.

In this volume of results of the excavations at Tepe Yahya, Peter Magee presents evidence from the Iron Age occupation of the site. Looking beyond the epigraphic and historical data and examining the insights provided by the artifactual record, Magee describes how a small settlement, located some distance from the main centers of power, came into being and was affected by the emergence of the Achaemenid imperial system, which stretched from Pakistan to Libya.