Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely
  • The dynamics of states and empires in early historic Mesopotamia
  • Geography of the Deh Lurān Plain
  • A brief history of archaeological research on the Deh Lurān Plain
  • Plan of the present work
  • Research design and methods / by James A. Neely
  • Ceramic phase indicators in surface assemblages / by Elizabeth Carter and Henry T. Wright
  • The early dynastic III phase
  • The Šimaški phase
  • The Sukkalmahu and middle Elamite phases
  • The neo-Elamite and Achaemenid phases
  • The archaeological sites and their interpretation / by James A. Neely and Henry T. Wright
  • Early historic settlement patterns on the Deh Lurān Plain / by Henry T. Wright
  • The later early dynastic phase
  • The Šimaški phase
  • The Sukkalmahu phase
  • The earlier middle Elamite phase
  • The later middle Elamite phase
  • The neo-Elamite phase
  • The Achaemenid phase
  • Water management during the later early dynastic, Elamite, and Achaemenid periods on the Deh Lurān Plain / by James A. Neely
  • Textual documentation of the Deh Lurān Plain : 2600-325 B.C.
  • The mid-late third millennium B.C. on the Deh Lurān Plain / by Piotr Michalowski and Henry T. Wright
  • The early to mid-second millennium / by Henry T. Wright
  • The early first millennium B.C. / by Pierre de Miroschedji and Henry T. Wright
  • The mid-first millennium B.C. / by Henry T. Wright
  • A land between : reflections on early historic Deh Lurān / by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely
  • Deh Lurān in the trans-regional context
  • Transforming water management and food production on the Deh Lurān Plain
  • Reorienting the Deh Lurān settlements around corridors of communication
  • The implications of this survey for future archaeological work
  • Appendix A: Counts of artifacts in survey collections
  • Appendix B: Archaeological sites on the Deh Lurān Plain.