The Central Zagros Archaeological Project 2012 to 2017
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Title: Flohr, P.
(2020)
Appendix 11.1 Dating of Early Neolithic sites in the Zagros and adjacent regions.
Oxbow
Filename: Flohr_et_al_2020_Chapter_11_Appendix.pdf (1 MB) Description: Summary of all Early Neolithic (Pre-Pottery) sites in the Eastern Fertile Crescent for which radiocarbon dates have been reported (including publications up to and including 2015). |
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Central Zagros Archaeological Project
(2014)
Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Sulaimaniyah Province, Kurdistan Regional Government, Republic of Iraq, 15th August – 2nd October 2013. CZAP Archive Report 4.
Central Zagros Archaeological Project
: Reading.
Filename: CZAP_Archive_Report_4.pdf (5 MB) Description: A fourth season of excavations at the site of Bestansur took place in Summer 2013 as part of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, co-directed by Roger Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Wendy Matthews. A second short period of work also took place at Shimshara on the Rania plain. The report is a preliminary, provisional account of the results from the Summer 2013 season. |
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Central Zagros Archaeological Project
(2013)
Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Sulaimaniyah Province, Kurdistan Regional Government, Republic of Iraq, 18th August – 27th September 2012. Survey in Zarzi Region, January 2013. CZAP Archive Report 2.
Central Zagros Archaeological Project
: Reading.
Filename: CZAP_Archive_Report_2.pdf (6 MB) Description: A second season of excavations at the site of Bestansur took place in summer 2012 as part of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, co-directed by Roger Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Wendy Matthews. The report is a preliminary, provisional account of the results from the summer 2012 season. A short period of work also took place at Shimshara on the Rania Plain and there was a winter season of survey in the Zarzi region, all reported on here. |
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Central Zagros Archaeological Project
(2012)
Excavations at Bestansur, Sulaimaniyah Province, Kurdistan Regional Government, Republic of Iraq, 17th March - 24th April 2012. CZAP Archive Report 1.
Central Zagros Archaeological Project
: Reading.
Filename: CZAP_Archive_Report_1.pdf (5 MB) Description: A first season of excavations at the site of Bestansur took place in spring 2012 as part of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, co-directed by Roger Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Wendy Matthews. The report is a preliminary, provisional account of the results from the spring 2012 season. |
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Central Zagros Archaeological Project
(2018)
Excavations at Bestansur, Sulaimaniyah Province, Kurdistan Regional Government, Republic of Iraq, 1st April – 15th May 2017. CZAP Archive Report 7.
Central Zagros Archaeological Project
: Reading.
Filename: CZAP_Archive_Report_7.pdf (2 MB) Description: A seventh season of excavations at the site of Bestansur was conducted in spring 2017 as part of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, co-directed by Roger Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Wendy Matthews. The report is a preliminary, provisional account of the results from the spring 2017 season. |
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Central Zagros Archaeological Project
(2013)
Excavations at Bestansur, Sulaimaniyah Province, Kurdistan Regional Government, Republic of Iraq, 21st March – 24th April 2013. CZAP Archive Report 3.
Central Zagros Archaeological Project
: Reading.
Filename: CZAP_Archive_Report_3.pdf (7 MB) Description: A third season of excavations at the site of Bestansur took place in spring 2013 as part of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, co-directed by Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews and Kamal Rasheed Raheem. The report is a preliminary, provisional account of the results from the spring 2013 season. |
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Central Zagros Archaeological Project
(2014)
Excavations at Bestansur, Sulaimaniyah Province, Kurdistan Regional Government, Republic of Iraq, 22nd March – 27th April 2014. CZAP Archive Report 5.
Central Zagros Archaeological Project
: Reading.
Filename: CZAP_Archive_Report_5.pdf (4 MB) Description: A fifth season of excavations at the site of Bestansur took place in Spring 2014 as part of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, co-directed by Roger Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Wendy Matthews. The report is a preliminary, provisional account of the results from the Spring 2014 season. |
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Central Zagros Archaeological Project
(2017)
Excavations at Bestansur, Sulaimaniyah Province, Kurdistan Regional Government, Republic of Iraq, 26th March – 15th April 2016. CZAP Archive Report 6.
Central Zagros Archaeological Project
: Reading.
Filename: CZAP_Archive_Report_6.pdf (2 MB) Description: A sixth season of excavations at the site of Bestansur took place in spring 2016 as part of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, co-directed by Roger Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Wendy Matthews. The report is a preliminary, provisional account of the results from the spring 2016 season. |
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Central Zagros Archaeological Project
(2020)
The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan.
Oxbow Books
: Oxford.
Filename: Matthews_et_al_2020.pdf (50 MB) Description: The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunting and gathering to more sedentary agricultural lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara, as well as survey in the region of the Epipalaeolithic site of Zarzi since 2012. Bestansur represents an early stage in the transition to sedentary, agricultural life, where the inhabitants pursued a biodiverse strategy of hunting, gathering, herding and cultivating, maximising the new opportunities afforded by the warmer climate of the Early Holocene. They also constructed a substantial settlement of mudbrick, including a major building with a minimum of 78 human individuals buried under its floor in association with hundreds of beads. These buildings and human remains provide new insights into social relations, mortuary practices, demography, diet, health and disease during the early stages of sedentarisation. The material culture of Bestansur and Shimshara is rich in imported items such as obsidian, carnelian and sea-shells, indicating the extent to which Early Neolithic communities were networked across the Eastern Fertile Crescent and beyond along routes that later became the Silk Roads. This volume includes final reports by a large-scale interdisciplinary team on a wealth of new data from excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, through application of state-of-the-art scientific techniques, integrated ecological and social approaches and sustainability studies. The net result is to re-emphasise the enormous significance of the Eastern Fertile Crescent in one of the most important episodes in human history: the Neolithic transition. |
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