The Oxford handbook of ancient Iran

Part I. Background and beginnings

1. The history of archaeological research in Iran : A brief survey / Ali Mousavi

2. Key questions regarding the paleoenvironment of Iran / Matthew D. Jones

3. The Paleolithic of Iran / Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari-Guran

4. The development and expansion of a Neolithic way of life / Lloyd R. Weeks

Part II. The Chalcolithic period

5. The Chalcolithic of northern Iran / Barbara Helwing

6. The Chalcolithic in the central Zagros / Abbas Moghaddam and Ardashir Javanmardzadeh

7. The Later Village (Chalcolithic) period in Khuzestan / Abbas Moghaddam

8. The Chalcolithic in southern Iran / Cameron A. Petrie

Part III. The Bronze Age

9. The Early Bronze Age in northwestern Iran / Geoffrey D. Summers

10. The Bronze Age in northeastern Iran / Christopher P. Thornton

11. Luristan and the central Zagros in the Bronze Age / D.T. Potts

12. Khuzestan in the Bronze Age / Javier Álvarez-Mon

13. Early writing in Iran / Jacob L. Dahl

14. The use of Akkadian in Iran / Katrien De Graef

15. Bronze Age Fars / Bernadette McCall

16. Eastern Iran in the Early Bronze Age / Holly Pittman

Part IV. The Iron Age

17. The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in northwestern Iran / Michael D. Danti

18. Luristan during the Iron Age / Bruno Overlaet

19. The central Alborz region in the Iron Age / Ali Mousavi

20. Linguistic groups in Iran / Ran Zadok

21. Iranian migration / Michael Witzel

22. Assyria and the Medes / Karen Radner

23. Elam in the Iron Age / Javier Álvarez-Mon

24. Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia in the early 1st millennium BC / Matthew Waters

25. Iron Age southeastern Iran / Peter Magee

Part V. The Achaemenid period

26. Southwestern Iran in the Achaemenid period / Rémy Boucharlat

27. Administrative realities : The Persepolis Archives and the archaeology of the Achaemenid heartland / Wouter F.M. Henkelman

28. Avesta and Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenids and early Sasanians / Prods Oktor Skjærvø

29. Royal Achaemenid iconography / Mark B. Garrison

30. Color and gilding in Achaemenid architecture and sculpture / Alexander Nagel

31. Eastern Iran in the Achaemenid period / Bruno Genito

32. Old Persian / Jan Tavernier

33. Greek sources on Achaemenid Iran / Maria Brosius

Part VI. Seleucid, post-Achaemenid and Arsacid archaeology and history

34. Alexander the Great and the Seleucids in Iran / Paul J. Kosmin

35. Media, Khuzestan and Fars between the end of the Achaemenids and the rise of the Sasanians / Pierfrancesco Callieri and Alireza Askari Chaverdi

36. Fratarakā and Seleucids / Josef Wiesehöfer

37. The Arsacids (Parthians) / Stefan R. Hauser

38. Parthian and Elymaean rock reliefs / Trudy S. Kawami

39. Arsacid, Elymaean and Persid coinage / Khodadad Rezakhani

40. Aramaic, Parthian and Middle Persian / Seiro Haruta

41. The use of Greek in pre-Sasanian Iran / Georges Rougemont

Part VII. The Sasanian period

42. Sasanian political ideology / M. Rahim Shayegan

43. Sasanian coinage / Nikolaus Schindel

44. Sasanian interactions with Rome and Byzantium / Peter Edwell

45. Sasanian rock reliefs / Matthew P. Canepa

46. Kuh-e Khwaja and the religious architecture of Sasanian Iran / Soroor Ghanimati

47. Sasanian administation and sealing practices / Negin Miri

48. Luxury silver vessels of the Sasanian period / Kate Masia-Radford

49. Sasanian textiles / Carol Bier

50. Pre-Islamic Iranian calendrical systems in the context of Iranian religious and scientific history / Antonio C.D. Panaino

51. The Islamic conquest of Sasanian Iran / Michael G. Morony.