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Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

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Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

By: D. T. Potts

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and historical record of Iran’s most ancient civilizations. D.T. Potts brings together history, archaeology, and social anthropology to provide an overview of what we can know about the kith and kinship ties in Iran, from prehistory to Elamite, Achaemenid, and Sasanian times. In so doing, he sheds light on the rich body of evidence that exists for kin relations in Iran, a topic that has too often been ignored in the study of the ancient world.

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Nomadism in Iran

From Antiquity to the Modern Era

By: D. T. Potts

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Nomadism in Iran

From Antiquity to the Modern Era

By: D. T. Potts

The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern archaeologists have envisaged it. Nomadism in Iran recasts our understanding of this "timeless" tradition. Far from constituting a natural adaptation on the Iranian Plateau, nomadism is a comparatively late introduction, which can only be understood within the context of certain political circumstances. Since the early Holocene, most, if not all, agricultural communities in Iran had kept herds of sheep and goat, but the communities themselves were sedentary: only a few of their members were required to move with the herds seasonally. Though the arrival of Iranian speaking groups, attested in written sources beginning in the time of Herodutus, began to change the demography of the plateau, it wasn't until later in the eleventh century that an influx of Turkic speaking Oghuz nomadic groups-"true" nomads of the steppe-began the modification of the demography of the Iranian Plateau that accelerated with the Mongol conquest. The massive, unprecedented violence of this invasion effected the widespread distribution of largely Turkic-speaking nomadic groups across Iran. Thus, what has been interpreted in the past as an enduring pattern of nomadic land use is, by archaeological standards, very recent. Iran's demographic profile since the eleventh century AD, and more particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth century, has been used by some scholars as a proxy for ancient social organization. Nomadism in Iran argues that this modernist perspective distorts the historical reality of the land. Assembling a wealth of material in several languages and disciplines, Nomadism in Iran will be invaluable to archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians of the Middle East and Central Asia.

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Oxford University Press

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The Archaeology of Elam

Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State

By: D. T. Potts

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The Archaeology of Elam

Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State

By: D. T. Potts

From the middle of the 3rd millennium BC until the coming of Cyrus the Great, southwestern Iran was referred to in Mesopotamian sources as the land of Elam. A heterogeneous collection of regions, Elam was home to a variety of groups, alternately the object of Mesopotamian aggression, and aggressors themselves; an ethnic group seemingly swallowed up by the vast Achaemenid Persian empire, yet a force strong enough to attack Babylonia in the last centuries BC. The Elamite language is attested as late as the Medieval era, and the name Elam as late as 1300 in the records of the Nestorian church. This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence, and brings to life one of the most important regions of Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places it in the context of the most recent archaeological and historical scholarship.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521564964

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Embryology and Phylogeny in Annelids and Arthropods

International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology Zoology

By: D. T. Anderson

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Embryology and Phylogeny in Annelids and Arthropods

International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology Zoology

By: D. T. Anderson

Embryology and Phylogeny in Annelids and Arthropods describes the embryology of segmented invertebrates, utilizing morphological facts of embryonic development in the furtherance of speculations on phylogenetic relationships. This book begins with an introduction to embryology and phylogeny, followed by a discussion on the experimental embryology of animals groups, such as polychaetes, oligochaetes and leeches, onychophorans, myriapods, apterygote and pterygote insects, crustaceans, and chelicerates. The cleavage, gastrulation, and basic pattern of development of these invertebrates are also provided. This text concludes with a presentation of the onychophoran-myriapod-hexapod assemblage or Uniramia. This publication is recommended for experimental embryologists researching on the embryonic development in annelids and arthropods.

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Elsevier

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1483187020

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Barnacles

Structure, function, development and evolution

By: D.T. Anderson

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Barnacles

Structure, function, development and evolution

By: D.T. Anderson

A great deal is now known about the functional organization, physiology, reproduction, and development of barnacles. For the first time, this book brings to bear all aspects of this knowledge on our interpretation of the dynamics of barnacle evolution relating them to the fossil history and biogeography of the group.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0412444208

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Algorithms and Computation

11th International Conference, ISAAC 2000, Taipei, Taiwan, December 18-20, 2000. Proceedings

By: D.T. Lee

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Algorithms and Computation

11th International Conference, ISAAC 2000, Taipei, Taiwan, December 18-20, 2000. Proceedings

By: D.T. Lee

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2000, held in Taipei, Taiwan in December 2000. The 46 revised papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algorithms and data structures; combinatorial optimization; approximation and randomized algorithms; graph drawing and graph algorithms; automata, cryptography, and complexity theory; parallel and distributed algorithms; computational geometry; and computational biology.

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3540412557

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Vaccines for Biodefense and Emerging and Neglected Diseases

By: Alan D.T. Barrett,Lawrence R. Stanberry

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Vaccines for Biodefense and Emerging and Neglected Diseases

By: Alan D.T. Barrett,Lawrence R. Stanberry

The last 20 years has seen a rapid increase in infectious diseases, particularly those that are termed "emerging diseases" such as SARS, "neglected diseases" such as malaria and those that are deemed biothreats such as anthrax. It is well-recognized that the most effective modality for preventing infectious diseases is vaccination. This book provides researchers with a better understanding of what is currently known about these diseases, including whether there is a vaccine available or under development. It also informs readers of the key issues in development of a vaccine for each disease. - Provides a comprehensive treatise of the agents that are responsible for emerging and neglected diseases and those that can be used as biothreats - Includes the processes such as the vaccine development pathway, vaccine manufacturing and regulatory issues that are critical to the generation of these vaccines to the marketplace - Each chapter will include a map of the world showing where that particular disease is naturally found

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Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

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Nomadism in Iran

From Antiquity to the Modern Era

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Albert Houtum Schindler: A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran

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Albert Houtum Schindler: A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran

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Widely regarded in his lifetime as the greatest living authority on all things Iranian, across an enormous range of disciplines, Albert Houtum Schindler lived and worked in Iran from 1868 to 1911. All who either met or corresponded with him came away praising his encyclopaedic knowledge and remarkable insight. A member of numerous learned societies in Europe, he sustained a wide web of intellectual contacts and was insatiably curious. As an employee of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, the Imperial Bank of Persia and the Persian Bank Mining Rights Corporation, he experienced firsthand the ups and downs of Iran’s slow but inexorable movement towards modernity. Yet when he died in 1916 his obituaries were frustratingly brief. Private when it came to the details of his personal life, Albert Houtum Schindler gave little away. This book is the first full-scale examination of the life and legacy of an extraordinary witness to the late-Qajar period and the land, people and history of Iran.

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1949445682

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The Archaeology of Elam

Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State

By: D. T. Potts

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Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State

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Book's by D.T. Potts

Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

Nomadism in Iran

Nomadism in Iran

The Archaeology of Elam

The Archaeology of Elam

Embryology and Phylogeny in Annelids and Arthropods

Embryology and Phylogeny in Annelids and Arthropods

Barnacles

Barnacles

Algorithms and Computation

Algorithms and Computation

Vaccines for Biodefense and Emerging and Neglected Diseases

Vaccines for Biodefense and Emerging and Neglected Diseases

Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

Nomadism in Iran

Nomadism in Iran

Albert Houtum Schindler: A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran

Albert Houtum Schindler: A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran

The Archaeology of Elam

The Archaeology of Elam

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