Paleopersepolis: Environment, Landscape and Society in Ancient Fars (Oriens Et Occidens: Studien zu Antiken Kulturkontakten un ihrem Nachleben, 33) (German Edition)

Acknowledgements Table of Contents (Silvia Balatti) Introduction (Jan Tavernier) The Linguistic Landscape in South-western Iran from the Neo-Elamite to the (Early) Islamic Period (Alireza Askari Chaverdi) New Data for an Updated Archaeological Sequence of Pārsa/Persepolis (Alexander Nagel) The Mineral Universe of Elamite Susa and Achaemenid Persepolis (Josef Wiesehöfer) Persian paradeisoi. Parts of an Imperial Landscape and Gardens ‘Full of Trees and Wild Animals’ (Sébastien Gondet / Kourosh Mohammadkhani / Marie-Laure Chambrade / Morteza Djamali / Mahdokht Farjamirad / Nabil Ibnoerrida / Jean-Baptiste Rigot) Approaching Past Landscape Management in the Field Pluridisciplinary and Multiscalar Studies in the Pasargadae Region (Fars Province, Iran) (Morteza Djamali / Sara Saeidi Ghavi Andam / Peter Poschlod) An Update on the History of Arboriculture in Ancient Iran (Wouter F. M. Henkelman) The fruits of Pārsa (Silvia Balatti) Wine Consumption in the Achaemenid Empire. Evidence from the Heartland (Hilmar Klinkott) A Glimmer in the Darkness. Alexander’s Campaign and the Topography of Persis (Pierfrancesco Callieri) Connectivity in Southern Fars in the Early Sasanian Period. Ardashir-Xwarrah and the Persian Gulf Inland and Coastal Areas (Khodadad Rezakhani) Nobles and Land. The Formation of the South (Nēmrōz) and the Politics of the Elite in the Sasanian Empire (Georg Leube) Polemics on a Palimpsest. Intertextual jibes in the 15th-Century Inscriptions in Persepolis/Takht-i Jamshīd Plates Indices Index of personal, dynastic and divine names Index of places "Pārsa, approximately corresponding to the modern-day Iranian province of Fars, can reasonably be considered to occupy a prominent place in the history of Ancient Iran. Indeed, it was the heartland of the Persian empires of the Teispids, Achaemenids and Sasanians. The spectacular archaeological remains of Fars are well known - we need only think, for example, of the monumental remains of Persepolis. Much less is known about life outside of the royal palaces and about human-environment interactions in this region. In recent decades, a new interest in socio-environmental issues in the humanities, the use of innovative scientific methods in archaeology, and the rapid expansion of the field of paleoenvironmental studies have vastly increased the potential for investigating this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions to this volume are the result of a scholarly effort to investigate the landscape and society of ancient Fars using an integrative approach, which benefits from the contributions from the humanities and the natural and technological sciences"-- Back cover