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DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard McClary.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islamic material culture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the intersections and interdisciplinary uses of large-scale archaeological data sets, from a huge number of sites in numerous countries, to inform the art historical study of the trade in medieval Islamic ceramics from Iran in the 12th and 13th centuries CE. By focusing on a single class of wares (mina’i or haft rang) that are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mitchell Allen. William B. Trousdale.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists generally recreate settlement patterns based on vestigial remains of rural landscapes destroyed by later settlement, agricultural activity, or environmental degradation. The 14th and 15th century Timurid settlement of the Sar-o-Tar plain, east of the lower Helmand River in southwest Afghanistan, is a notable exception. Dry desert conditions...