Origins of State Organisations in Prehistoric Highland Fars, Southern Iran by A. Ailzadeh

Based on the analysis of archaeological data and historical and ethnographic sources, the author argues that the specialised manufacture and administrative aspects at Tall-e Bakun A indicate the existence of differential status at the site. It also shows that a few families or ranking individuals controlled the manufacture and flow of goods. The late prehistoric "Bakun A culture in Fars" is a major source of information on the initial development of the evolutionary path which vertical mobile pastoralists of highland Iran may have taken to develop state organisations. Long before the appearance of administrative technology and physical segregation of administration, production, storage, and residential units in urban centers of the second half of the fourth millennium BC, Tall-e Bakun A, near Persepolis in the Marv Dasht region of Fars, stands as one of the precursors to the complex societies of the fourth millennium BC early urban centres. The present publication presents the final report of the last season's excavations at Tall-e Bakun A. The archaeological materials from this season are combined with the results of other pertinent data from surveys and excavations in the Near East to provide a foundation upon which pre-state social evolution in late prehistoric highland Fars has been reconstructed and interpreted. Based on the analysis of the available archaeological data as well as historical and ethnographic sources, Alizadeh argues that the specialised manufacture and administrative aspects at Tall-e Bakun A indicate the existence of differential status at the site, where a few families or ranking individuals controlled the manufacture and flow of goods.
`Author(s) :` A. Ailzadeh	`Format :` Hardback Book
`ISBN-10 :` 1885923368	`ISBN-13 :` 9781885923363
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Series Title : University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications

Country Publication : United States

Publication Date : 10/10/2006

Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Page Length : 300mm