SECTION A: RESEARCH CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND
1.Introduction
2. History of Research
SECTION B: FIELD RESEARCH
3. The Landscapes of the Gorgan Wall (Tony J. Wilkinson, Hamid
Omrani Rekavandi, Kristen Hopper, Seth Priestman, Kourosh Roustaei
and Nikolaos Galiatsatos)
4. The Brick Kilns Alongside the Gorgan Wall
5. The Architecture of the Gorgan Wall
6. Forts, Fortlets and Watchtowers on the Gorgan Wall
7. The Brick Kilns Alongside the Tammisheh Wall
8. The Architecture of the Tammisheh Wall
9. The Forts on the Tammisheh Wall
10. Mountain Strongholds and Refuges Above the Tammisheh Wall
11. Linear Earthworks Of More Recent Date – Timeless Responses To A
Continuous Threat
12. Sasanian Campaign Bases
13. A Sasanian City In The Gorgan Plain: Dasht Qal‘eh
14. Early Urban Expansion Into The Steppe: Qelich Qoineq
SECTION C: SPECIALIST CONTRIBUTIONS
15. The Underwater Survey of the Tammisheh and Gorgan Walls (Julian
Jansen Van Rensburg, Francesco Caputo, Hamid Omrani Rekavandi,
Eberhard W. Sauer, Bardia Shabani and James Ratcliffe)
16. Archaeomagnetic Studies Of Features Along The Gorgan And
Tammisheh Walls (Cathy M. Batt and David P. Greenwood)
17. OSL Dating (Jean-Luc Schwenninger and Morteza Fattahi)
18. Sasanian Ceramics From The Gorgan Wall And Other Sites On The
Gorgan Plain (Seth M.N. Priestman)
19. Vessel Glass and Beads (Birgitta Hoffmann)
20. Animal Bones (Marjan Mashkour, Valentin Radu and Richard
Thomas)
21. Charcoal (Imogen Poole and Rowena Gale)
22. Bitumen (Richard Evershed)
SECTION D: CONCLUSIONS
23. History of the Walls and of the Sasanian Military Build-up in
the Gorgan Plain: A Microcosm of a Powerful Empire
Appendices
19th-Century Sources On The Physical Remains Of The Gorgan Wall
Bibliography
Persian translation of introduction, table of contents and title
page (Amin Nazifi)
Tony Wilkinson (deceased) was Professor of Archaeology in the Archaeology Department at the University of Durham. He was widely recognised as one of the world’s leading experts in landscape archaeology and, amongst other things, specialised in the ancient landscapes of Mesopotamia and the broader Middle East. Eberhard Sauer is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.
Large format, high production standards, thoroughly illustrated.
Table of contents and introduction translated into Farsi.
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