Vol. 3, 2012
Introductory Note ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
Mohammad Bahramzadeh
Preliminary Use-wear Analysis of Several Middle Paleolithic Points from Qaleh Bozi 3 Rockshelter, Central Iran ................. 7
Emilie Claud, Fereidoun Biglari and Jacques Jaubert
New Evidence for Late Chalcolithic Occupation of Qazvin Plain, The Excavations at Sagzabad, 2009 .................................15
Hossein Azizi, Kamal Niknami, Golnaz Ahadi, and Nastaran Moradi
A Scene on the Shoulder; Plastic Decoration on a Ceramic Vessel from Chogha Mish ..................................................... 29
Mohammad Karami
Early Silver Production in Iran ...................................................................................................................................... 37
Nima Nezafati and Ernst Pernicka
A Reconsideration of the Purported Epipaleolithic Assemblage of Qaleh Asgar, Alborz Mountains ................................... 46
Fereidoun Biglari
Sassanid Monuments of Taq-e Bostan, Kermanshah, Western Iran, Summary of a Conservation Report. .......................... 47
Jonathan Kemp
Preliminary Report on the Identification of Ghandejan / Dasht-e Barin City Center in Sar Mashhad Plain, North of the Persian Gulf ........................................................................................................................................................................ 65
Parsa Ghasemi
The Osteoarchaeological Project of the National Museum of Iran: An Interim Report ......................................................... 72
Marjan Mashkour, Fereidoun Biglari and Nahid Ghafoori
Gordon Randolph Willey (7 March 1913-28 April 2002): His Life and Seminal Contribution to Settlement Pattern Analysis in Archaeology............................................................................................................................................................... 77
Kamyar Abdi
Persian Articles
The Eshkaft Tahmās Cave: New Late Paleolithic finds from the Chegini region, Lorestān Province........................................ 7
Babak Moradi
Bibi Zoleikhaei: A New Early Neolithic Site in Kohgiluyeh, Southern Zagros ..................................................................... 19
Ahmad Azadi
The Force of Numbers: Population Pressure in the Bisotun Region, 10000-4200 BCE ..................................................... 33
Sirvan Mohammadi
The Convergence of Oppositional and Complementary Subsistence Strategies in Prehistoric Southwestern Iran ..................41
Abbas Alizadeh
Shahrbanou: New Evidence of Chalcolithic Occupation on the Heights of the Abhar-rud Basin ........................................... 75
Shokouh Khosravi and Sajjad Alibaigi
The South Aras Valley in 4th and 3rd Millennia BCE: Findings from the Excavation of Kohne Pasgah Tepe ........................ 91
Sepideh Maziar
A Short Report on Three New Sasanian Sites in Kazerun ............................................................................................. 111
Sirous Barfi, Mosaieb Amiri, Reza Bidari and Mohammad Hasan Paknezhad
Archaeological Survey of the pottery of Zolfābād on the Farāhān Plain ........................................................................... 125
Mohammad Reza Nemati, Hossein Sedighian & Mohammad Ebrahiminia
Survey of the Islamic Site of Sang-e Chal, Chelav Region, Amol, Mazandaran ................................................................ 139
Meisam Falah