02-06-2013, 08:28 AM
World Archaeology Issue 27 PDF article: Secrets of the Red Snake - The Great Wall of iran Revealed.
Forthcoming title from Oxbow Books: Persia's Imperial Power in Late Antiquity : The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran
Was going to impulse pre-order it, something I almost never do, but was dissuaded by the $150 price.
Quote:It is longer than Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall taken together. It is over a thousand years older than the Great Wall of China as we know it today. It is of more solid construction than its ancient Chinese counterparts. It is the greatest monument of its kind between central Europe and China and it may be the longest brick, or stone, wall ever built in the ancient world – and yet few have ever heard of it. This wall is known as ‘The Great Wall of Gorgan’ or ‘the Red Snake’. An international team of archaeologists has been at work on the snakelike monument and here they report on their findings.
Forthcoming title from Oxbow Books: Persia's Imperial Power in Late Antiquity : The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran
Quote:Table of Contents
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)
Was going to impulse pre-order it, something I almost never do, but was dissuaded by the $150 price.
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