Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era

by D.T. Potts

Book Overview

The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern archaeologists have envisaged it. Nomadism in Iran recasts our understanding of this "timeless" tradition.

Far from constituting a natural adaptation on the Iranian Plateau,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199330794
• ISBN13: 9780199330799
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"