Excavations at Tepe Guran : The Neolithic Period / Peder Mortensen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-145)

Introduction -- The Prehistoric Environment of Tepe Guran / Kent V. Flannery -- The Excavation of Tepe Guran -- Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Architecture -- The Chipped Stone Industry -- Pottery -- Ground and Polished Stone Industries -- Bone Artefacts -- Ornaments -- Figurines and various Small Objects of Clay and Stone -- Hunting and Early Animal Domestication at Tepe Guran / Kent V. Flannery -- An Additional Note to Kent V. Flannery's Chapter on Animal Domestication at Tepe Guran / Pernille Bangsgaard -- The Neolithic Period in the Hulailan Valley -- Neolithic Settlement Patterns in Hulailan and the Central Zagros.

In 1963 excavations at Tepe Guran in Luristan revealed a series of occupations, representing a small Neolithic village with an economy based on dry-farming, herding, and hunting, and strongly dependant on the nearby rivers and hills. A unique sequence of a-ceramic and early ceramic levels covering a period of more than a thousand years (c. 6700-5500 BC) were uncovered. Peder Mortensen's book is the final report on the excavations, supplemented by sections on the prehistoric environment and on hunting and early animal domestication at Tepe Guran by Kent V. Flannery and Pernille Bangsgaard. The results are presented within a framework of reflections relating to the author's and to other scholars' recent research on the development of Neolithic settlement and subsistence patterns in the Central Zagros region.