Vol. 2, 2011

Introductory Note ................................................................................................................................................... 6

Mohammad Bahramzadeh

William M. Sumner: An Appreciation ....................................................................................................................... 7

John R. Alden

World Systems Analysis and Uruk Mesopotamia: A Helpful Historical Analogy? ........................................................ 11

Kamyar Abdi

Technological Choices and Lithic Production in the Indus Period: Case Studies from Sindh (Pakistan) ......................... 21

Paolo Biagi and Elisabetta Stanini

Mannaean Faunal Remains from Tepe Qalaichi, Northwestern Iran (9th - 7th B.C.) ...................................................... 33

Masoud Nezamabadi, Marjan Mashkour, Bahman Kargar

Preliminary Report of the Archaeological Survey of the Khersān 3 Basin Dam, Southwestern Zagros, Iran ......................41

Parsa Ghasemi and Greg Watson

Book Review

David R. Harris 2010. Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia: An Environmental-Archaeological Study ............... 48

Kourosh Roustaei

Persian Articles

William M. Sumner ................................................................................................................................................ 6

Abbas Alizadeh

The Paleolithic Occupation of the Western Zagros foothills: New Evidence from Sar Qaleh-e Bāwaisi (Azgeleh),

the Kermanshāh Province, Iran ................................................................................................................................ 9

Fereidoun Biglari and Sonia Shidrang

Preliminary Report on the Stratigraphy of Kalanān in Bijār District, Kurdistān Province ................................................. 29

Amir Saed Moucheshi

Subsistence economy at Tepe Mehr Ali, Fars during the Lapui period based on archaeozoological studies .................... 39

Shivā Sheikhi, Marjān Mashkour and Ali Rezā Sardāri

Lohramesh, An Early Bronze Age site in the Golpāygān Plain, Esfahān Province ......................................................... 61

Mohsen Jāveri and Alamadār Hāji Mohammad Aliān

Report of the Archaeological Survey of Eastern Koragah, Khoramabad District, Lorestan Province ................................ 75

Morteza Garavand

Geoarchaeology: Definitions, Methods, and Applications in Iranian Archaeology .......................................................... 89

Sārem Amini, Amir Sāed Mucheshi, and Navid Sālehvand