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Memoirs

Memoir 13
An Early Town on the Deh Luran Plain:
Excavations at Tepe Farukhabad
edited by Henry T. Wright [1981, $7]


Memoir 11
An Archaeological Survey of the Keban Reservoir Area of East-Central Turkey
by Robert Whallon [1979, $5]



Anthropological Papers

Anthropological Papers, 93
Wrapped in Beauty:
The Koelz Collection of Kashmiri Shawls
by Grace Beardsley in collaboration with Carla M. Sinopoli

This richly-illustrated volume examines the remarkable Kashmiri shawls of the Walter Koelz Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. Part I presents the history, production, and forms and ornamentation of Kashmiri shawls, focusing on how the social contexts of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries and the advent of the Jacquard loom impacted shawl development. Part II is a detailed descriptive catalogue of the shawls in the Koelz Collection. An accompanying CD-ROM includes color illustrations of the shawls in the collection, as well as a transcribed manuscript by Koelz. [2005, $28]


71. Persian Diary, 1939-1941, by Walter N. Koelz, 1983. $5.

69. The Ait Ayash of the High Moulouya Plain: Rural Social Organization in Morocco, by John Chiapuris, 1979. $3.

64. Wasita in a Lebanese Context: Social Exchange among Villagers and Outsiders, by Frederick Charles Huxley, 1978. $3.

55. The Ait Ndhir of Morocco: A Study of the Social Transformation of a Berber Tribe, by Amal Rassam Vinogradov, 1974. $2.

52. Nomads and Farmers: A Study of the Yörük of Southeastern Turkey, by Daniel G. Bates, 1973. Available only on CD-ROM (digitized version of original text). $12.

44. Property Control and Social Strategies in Settlers in a Middle Eastern Plain, by Barbara C. Aswad, 1971. $2.

14. Tell Toqaan: A Syrian Village, by Louise E. Sweet, 1960. $1.



Technical Reports

Technical Report 26
Early Settlement and Irrigation on the Deh Luran Plain:
Village and Early State Societies in Southwestern Iran
by James A. Neely and Henry T. Wright

The Deh Luran Plain is a microcosm of Mesopotamia, and important for the study of a variety of processes in cultural evolution. In this volume, the first of three planned on this project, the authors present a detailed archaeological survey covering periods from the earliest occupation of the plain up to the mid-third millennium BC. The data presented are relevant to the development of villages, irrigation agriculture, stratified societies, and the appearance of the first states in a changing nexus of interregional competition and exchange. New methods for estimating past populations are introduced. [1994, $20]


Technical Report 24
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns and Cultures in Susiana, Southwestern Iran:
The Analysis of the F.G.L. Gremliza Survey Collection
by Abbas Alizadeh [1992, $15]


Technical Report 10
Archaeological Investigations in Northeastern Xuzestan, 1976
edited by Henry T. Wright [1979, $3]

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