Dissertation: Early Socio-Economic and Organizational Developments in Highlands of Western Iran

在亨利赖特博士的指导下，Kamyar Abdi先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。他将在伊朗西部的扎格罗斯山脉地区进行考古研究，并将联合收割机地貌重建和区域调查与选定地点的挖掘相结合。他将专注于新石器时代和铜器时代（铜器时代），当植物和动物第一次被驯化和文明的根源在近东建立。Kamyar先生先前的工作表明，早期定居者和游牧人口都拥有大量遗址。虽然这一领域的考古研究已经有很多年了，但该地区很重要，因为它为很早的驯化提供了证据，并被视为复杂社会产生的发源地之一。有证据表明，扎格罗斯地区以绵羊和山羊放牧为基础的畜牧业以及定居的村庄农业生活大致在同一时间发展起来，史前史学家推测了两者之间的关系。有些人认为，这些代表了不同的和相互竞争的生活方式，这两个群体永远在为放牧和农业空间而竞争。另一些人则认为，这两种生计是相互关联的，牧民依赖农民提供基本的谷物供应，而牲畜在冬季以收割后的田地里的遗骸为食。同样，农民通过游牧民提供的肉类获得必要的蛋白质。一些研究人员，如Abdi先生也认为，正是这种复杂性和互补性导致了社会复杂性的发展，并导致了调节大规模社会互动的机制。他在扎格罗斯的研究将评估这一想法。由于气候和地形不稳定，将进行地貌调查。根据已经开发的具有时间敏感性的陶瓷年表，Abdi先生和他的同事将绘制和定位农业和畜牧业的地表遗址，并确定其相对年龄。对每种类型的代表进行有限的挖掘，将提供关于社会分层程度和贸易的信息。恢复植物和动物遗骸将允许饮食重建。在此基础上，可以确定群体之间的相互作用和每个群体内部的分层程度。它将使人们深入了解产生复杂社会的基本机制。它将为许多考古学家提供感兴趣的数据，并有助于培养有前途的研究人员。

Under the direction of Dr. Henry Wright, Mr. Kamyar Abdi will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will conduct archaeological research in the Zagros Mountains region of Western Iran and combine geomorphological reconstruction and regional survey with excavation at selected sites. He will focus on the Neolithic and Chalcolithic (Copper Age) periods when plants and animals were first domesticated and the roots of civilization in the Near East were established. Prior work by Mr. Kamyar has indicated an abundance of sites attributable to both early settled and nomadic populations. Although it has been many years since archaeological research in this area has been possible, the region is importance because it has provided evidence for very early domestication and is seen as one of the hearths from which complex societies arose. Evidence indicates that both pastoralism, based on sheep and goat herding as well as settled village agricultural life developed at roughly the same time in the Zagros and prehistorians have speculated on the relationship between the two. Some have argued that these represent separate and competing ways of life and that the two groups were perpetually at odds competing for grazing and agricultural space. Others have postulated that the two types of subsistence are linked, that pastoralists were dependent on farmers for essential grain supplies and that animals grazed during winter months on remains in harvested fields. Likewise farmers obtained necessary protein through nomad supplied meat. Some researchers such as Mr. Abdi have also maintained that this very complexity and complementarity lead to the development of social complexity and to the mechanisms which regulated large scale social interaction. His research in the Zagros will evaluate this idea. Because climate and landform are not stable over time, a geomorphological survey will be conducted. Based on a time sensitive ceramic chronology already developed, Mr. Abdi and his colleagues will map and locate surface sites, both agricultural and pastoralist and determine their relative ages. Limited excavation at representatives of each type will provide information on the degree of social stratification as well as trade. Recovery of floral and faunal remains will permit dietary reconstruction. On this basis the interaction between groups and the degree of stratification within each can be determined.This research is important for several reasons. It will provide insight into the basic mechanisms which gave rise to complex society. It will provide data of interest to many archaeologists and contribute to training a promising researcher.