Abedi Akbar, Razani Mehdi (eds). The International Symposium on the Archaeology and Archaeometry of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages in Northwest Iran and South Caucasus

Abstract Book. — Tabriz Islamic Art University & Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 2017. — 59 p.The first "International Symposium on the Archaeology and Archaeometry of the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Ages in the Northwest Iran and the South Caucasus" held in Department of Archaeology and Archaeometry of Tabriz Islamic Art University, 16-19 September, 2017. The symposium mainly aims to establish good basement for scientific research in both north-western Iran and South Caucasus. After beginning of archaeological field projects in Nakhchivan region in Azerbaijan and according to close cultural, socio-economic relation with north-western Iran now it seems the scholars of these regions should be share their findings and results for better understanding of cultural situation of the region. Plenty of activities have been carried out concerning Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages (Kura-Araxes Culture) of Near and Middle East specially in Iraq, Turkey and Syria but Nakhchivan and north-western Iran considered as terra incognita in archaeological studies. With new projects have begun in Nakhichevan region and Southern Caucasus in one hand and north-western Iran in the other this symposium jointly organized by Tabriz Islamic Art University along with German Archaeological Institute (DAI) Tehran Branch and CNRS (Lyon 2 University) for sharing new field projects and new results for establishing new possibilities for the research of both region's scholars in Iran and Nakhchivan region. New archaeological field research in north-western Iran brought to light important materials and now all of them are ready for study in laboratories of Tabriz Islamic Art University.The South Caucasus from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age: Twelve Years of Excavations in Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) (Catherine Marro, Veli Bakhshaliye, Rémi Berthon and Nicolas Gailhard).
Kul Tepe Jolfa and North-Western Iran's Cultural and Socio-Economic Contact with Southern Caucasus and Northern Mesopotamia in Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages (Akbar Abedi).
The River Valley of Araxes in the Horizon of Late Neolithic – Early Chalcolithic Age; On the basis of Materials Recorded from Boynoo Tepe – Qiz Qalasi (Bahram Ajorloo, Mohammad Alizadeh).
Lithic/Obsidian Industries Beyond the Araxes during Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (Judith Thomalsky).
The Beginnings of Extractive Metallurgy in Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan): The Archaeometallurgical Evidence from Ovçular Tepesi and Zirinçlik (Nicolas Paul Gailhard).
The Past-Obsidian Project: From Transhumance to the Mine: the Role of Nomadic Pastoralists in the Protohistoric Exploitation of Obsidian in Iran and the Caucasus (Marie Orange, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Catherine Marro, Rémi Berthon, Judith Thomalsky).
Identification of the Colorants used on the Late Bronze Age Ceramics of Eastern Lake Urmia Based on the Specimen from Kul Tepe, Ajabshir, NW IRAN (Umm al-Banin Rastineh, Masoud Bagherzadeh Kasiri, Bahram Ajorloo, Ghader Ebrahimi).
Absolute (C14 AMS) and Relative Chronology of Dava Göz Khoy; New Evidence of Transitional Chalcolithic, Dalma and Pisdeli Cultures in NW IRAN (Akbar Abedi).
A Preliminary Report on the Excavation to Establish a Buffer Zone and Stratigraphy for Dizla’in Tapasi, Ardabil: The Bronze Age Deposits (Mohammad Feizkhah).
Late Chalclothic Period in Little Zab Basin, Northwestern Iran (Ali Binandeh).
Four Seasons of Archaeological Surveys in Bostan Abad, NW IRAN; New Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Findings (Rahim Velayati ,Farzaneh Saadati Rad).
Settlement Pattern Analysis through Transition from the late Chalcolithic to early Bronze Age on the Eastern Shore of Urmia Lake, NW Iran (Qader Ebrahimi).
Dozdaghi Early Bronze Age Center in Khoy plain, Northwestern Iran New Evidence from Salt Mine (Afrasiab Garavand, Ali Binandeh, Fatemeh Malekpour).
Transition from Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age in NW of Iran Based on Archeo-Petrographic Studies of Kul Tepe Jolfa Potteries (Hamed Taghizadeh, Mahmood Heydarian, Akbar Abedi).
Spatial Distribution Settlements Patterns Analysis of Chalcolithic Sites of Bostānabād, NW IRAN (Hossein Naseri Someeh, Rahim Velayati).
Provenance Studies of Early Bronze Age Metalworking in NorthWestern Iran, Based on Metal Artifacts of Kul Tepe Hadishahr (Alireza Amiri, Akbar Abedi, Ahad Samadi, Talhe Ghodoosian).