Greater Khorasan : : history, geography, archaeology and material culture / / edited by Rocco Rante.

• Superior document: Studies in the history and culture of the Middle East ; 29
• TeilnehmendeR: Rante, Rocco,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Walter de Gruyter,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English; French
• Series: Studies in the history and culture of the Middle East ; v. 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages) :; illustrations, color maps.

Table of Contents

Pre-Mongol Khurasan. a historical introduction / David Durand-Durand-Guedy -- Khorasan proper and greater Khorasan within a politico-cultural framework / Rocco Rante -- La crise d'aridite climatique de la fin du 3eme millenaire av. J.aEC., a la lumiere des contextes geomorphologiques de 3 sites d'Iran Oriental (Bam, Tepe Damghani, Jiroft) / Eric Fouache, Henri-Paul Francfort, Claude Cosandey, Chahryar Adle -- From Parthian to Islamic Nisa / Carlo Lippolis and Vito Messina -- Merv on Khorasanian trade routes from the 10th-13th centuries / Paul Wordsworth -- Ancient Herat Revisited. New Data from Recent Archaeological Fieldwork / Ute Franke -- Trois mosquees du debut de l'ere islamique au Grand Khorassan : Bastam Noh-gonbadan/Haji-Piyadah de Balkh et Zuzan d'apres des investigations archeologiques / Chahryar Adle -- Le paysage urbain de Nishapur / Haeedeh Laleh, Abolfazl Mokarramifar, Zahra Lorzadeh -- Nouvelles recherches sur la ceramique de Nishapur : la prospection du Shahrestan / Annabelle Collinet -- Archaeological Material in the Museum Setting: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Excavations at Nishapur / Marika Sardar -- Nishapur Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 70 years of Restoration Techniques / Vicki Parry -- Le Grand Khorasan: Datation par des methodes physico-chimiques (carbone 14 et luminescence) / Antoine Zink, Elisa Porto, Pascale Richardin, Nathalie Gandolfo, Rocco Rante -- Index.