Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction

1. This Fertile Land   Margaret Cool Root

Part II: Iran in the System of Things

2. An Overview of Place and Space   Lori Khatchadourian and Margaret Cool Root

3. Seals and Sealings: Archaeological Perspectives   Lori Khatchadourian

Part III: Signs and Symbols

4. The Chevron-Filled Cross and Early Communicative Systems   Jane Rempel

5. Systems of Symbolic Expression   Margaret Cool Root

6. Shamans, Seals, and Magic   Andrew Wilburn

7. Modes of Religious Experience in Late Prehistory   Karen Johnson

8. Fertility: Of Snakes, Displayed Females, Scorpions, Tortoises, Frogs   Margaret Cool Root

Part IV: Historiography, Archaeology, and the Art Market

9. Problems in Interpreting Late Prehistory   Margaret Cool Root

10. Archaeology and Collecting: Law, Ethics, Politics   Hima Mallampati

11. Tepe Giyan Lives. Herzfeld's Harvest - Jane For Adams's Buttons   Margaret Cool Root

Part V: Apparatus

Appendix on Materials Analysis   Kathleen Davis and Suzanne Davis

Catalogue of Artifacts, Didactics, and Images in the Exhibition   Margaret Cool Root

Concordance: Artifacts (by Collection) to Catalogue Numbers   Margaret Cool Root

Woks Cited

Selected Index of Signs, Sumbols, and Their Associations

About the Author

edited by Margaret Cool Root

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