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

在Henry Wright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区进行考古研究，并将地貌重建和区域调查与选定地点的挖掘结合起来。他将把重点放在新石器时代和铜器时代（铜器时代），那时植物和动物首次被驯化，近东文明的根基已经建立。Kamyar先生先前的工作表明，大量的遗址可归因于早期定居人口和游牧人口。虽然在这个地区进行考古研究已经很多年了，但这个地区很重要，因为它为早期驯化提供了证据，被视为复杂社会产生的温床之一。有证据表明，在扎格罗斯地区，以放牧绵羊和山羊为基础的畜牧业以及定居的乡村农业生活几乎同时发展起来，史前学家对两者之间的关系进行了推测。一些人认为，这代表了不同的、相互竞争的生活方式，这两个群体一直在争夺放牧和农业空间。另一些人则假设这两种生存方式是有联系的，牧民依赖农民提供基本的粮食供应，动物在冬天的几个月里以收获地里的残骸为食。同样，农民通过游牧民族提供的肉类获得必要的蛋白质。Abdi先生等一些研究人员还认为，正是这种复杂性和互补性导致了社会复杂性的发展和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观点。由于气候和地貌不稳定，将进行地貌调查。阿卜迪和他的同事们将根据已经开发出来的对时间敏感的陶瓷年表，绘制和定位地表遗址，包括农业遗址和畜牧遗址，并确定它们的相对年龄。对每一种类型的代表进行有限的挖掘将提供有关社会分层程度和贸易的资料。植物和动物遗骸的恢复将允许饮食重建。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。这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将使我们深入了解产生复杂社会的基本机制。它将提供许多考古学家感兴趣的数据，并有助于培养一名有前途的研究人员。

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.