Iran, Bronze Age, Central Asia, Ritual Interaction (Other Keyword)
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Shared Ritual Ideologies: Long Spouted Vessels on the Iranian Plateau in the Third and Second Millennium BCE (2015)
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Interactions between Mesopotamia, Iran, and Central Asia during the third and second millennium BCE are well documented with much written on this topic. I will expand on this scholarship by tracing long spouted Iranian vessels across these regions to investigate possible shared ideologies. These vessels are often associated with Iron Age context in northern Iran, but this characteristic trough spout has been present on vessels on the plateau since at least the 4th millennium BCE. This unique...