Archaeology
Mahdi Mousavinia
Abstract
Nishapur is one of the most important Iranian cities in the Last Historical up to the Midd-Islamic periods. Thanks to the Metropolitan Museum, the Louvre Museum, and Iranian archaeological expeditions, some parts of the city especially in the Islamic period have been revealed. Lack of contextual information ...
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Nishapur is one of the most important Iranian cities in the Last Historical up to the Midd-Islamic periods. Thanks to the Metropolitan Museum, the Louvre Museum, and Iranian archaeological expeditions, some parts of the city especially in the Islamic period have been revealed. Lack of contextual information about Nishapur in the Pre-Islamic period is a common feature at archaeological excavations that caused the writing of the present book. Nishapur Revisited: Stratigraphy and Ceramics of the Qohandez by Rocco Rante and Annabelle Collinet, the Louvre Museum researchers, is one of the most recently published books about Nishapur history and archaeology. The most important question of this paper is how the writers revised the history of Nishapur based on some archaeometry studies. The two sub-questions of the article are as follows: Did the writers able to investigate the approaches of the book in a scientific method? Could the book effectively resolve some questions in Iranian studies? Approach of the paper is critical interpretation. The archaeological data of the paper is collected by field and library data. To answer the questions, the ideas of the writers in the book chapters have been revised. In the following, this book has been criticized and evaluated.
