Neely James A., Wright Henry T. (eds.). Early Settlement and Irrigation on the Deh Luran Plain: Village and Early State Societies in Southwestern Iran

University of Michigan Press, 1994. — 243 p. — (Technical Report 26).The Deh Luran Plain is a microcosm of Mesopotamia and important for the study of a variety of processes in cultural evolution. In this volume (the first of three planned on this project), the authors present a detailed archaeological survey covering periods from the earliest occupation of the plain up to the mid-third millennium BC.