The department of Archaeology at the Institute of Art and Architecture of Pars and the University Lyon 2, Archéorient in collaboration with the Society for Iranian Archaeology and Padova University are pleased to announce the Fourth Series of Online Research Seminar on “Early Urbanization in Iran; Development of Urban Centers in the Iranian Plateau”.
- Mondays from 22nd November to 20th December 2021, via Zoom
>>> Programme (.pdf)

◊ 22nd november 2021 - Affiche
- Kura Araxes/Early Trans-Caucasian Culture: A View from Yanik Tepe
Dr. Geoffrey Summers (Research associate, University of Chicago Oriental Institute, Director of excavations atKerkenes 1991-2011)

 ◊ 29th novembre 2021 - Affiche (.pdf)
- Understanding the Kura-Araxes from the South Caucasus to Iran
Michelle Rothman (Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, Widener University and Consulting Scholar, Penn Museum

 ◊ 6th décembre 2021 - Affiche (.pdf)
- Afghan Sistan in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages
Mitchell Allen (PhD, President Scholarly Roadside Service)

 ◊ 13th décembre 2021
- Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Crossroads of Asia: University of Chicago projects of heritage preservation in Afghanistan 2012-2021
Gill Stein (Director – Chicago Center for Cultural Heritage Preservation (C3HP) Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology University of Chicago Oriental Institute)

 ◊ 20th décembre 2021
- Bronze Age in the Urmia basin generally, history of research and today status
Stephan Kroll (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München. Consulting Scholar the Hasanlu Project University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology)