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‘Seek, and you shall find’: a new era at the dawn of domestication and sedentism in Early Neolithic Iran - Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews & Yaghoub Mohammadifar (ed.). The earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani. Central Zagros Archaeological Project, volume 1 (British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeology Monographs 4). xiv+249 pages, 158 b&w illustrations, 42 tables, CD. 2013. Oxford & Oakville (CT): Oxbow; 978-1-78297-223-5 hardback £40. - Roger Matthews & Hassan Fazeli Nashli (ed.). The neolithisation of Iran: the formation of new societies (BANEA Themes from the Ancient Near East 3). viii+296 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, and tables. 2013. Oxford & Oakville (CT): Oxbow; 978-1-78297-190-0 paperback £38.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2014

Abbas Alizadeh
Abbas Alizadeh*
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*The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA (Email: a-alizadeh@uchicago.edu)
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Antiquity , Volume 88 , Issue 341 , September 2014 , pp. 977 - 980
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