Shahdad and The Bronze Age in Southwest Iran

University of Cambridge, Oxford University, the Hakemi family

Iran Heritage Foundation, Amir Mohtashemi Islamic & Indian Works of Art and British Institute of Persian Studies

Dr. Cameron Petrie

Mr. Hassan–Ali Hakemi

Dr. Jacob Dahl

Prehistoric Shahdad is a major Bronze Age centre that was discovered at the edge of Kavire-Lut in 1968. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the late Professor Ali Hakemi of Archaeological Institute of Iran, commenced investigation at Shahdad and supervised intensive excavations for seven consecutive seasons at the site. Shahdad presents extensive evidence for a sophisticated civilization using a range of elite artefacts, elaborate metalwork technology, complex burial practices and archaic pictographs.

The monumental volume "Shahdad - Archaeological excavations of a bronze age centre in Iran" was published by ISMEO, Rome, Italy in 1997, yet four decades after its discovery, Shahdad remains the subject for ongoing investigations into the archaeology of south-eastern Iran in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC.

This two-day workshop will include lectures and presentations by prominent archaeologists and linguists of international standing, and will help to situate the critical research questions for southeast Iranian archaeology into a broader context for the future.

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