Socio-Economic Transformations on the Tehran Plain

"Motivated by the destruction of archaeological sites within the Tehran plain, Durham University, the University of Tehran, the University of Bradford and the ICHHTO developed a spatial and temporal study of settlement within a block of 1500 km2 from the beginning of the Holocene to the end of the Chalcolithic. Augmented with staff from the University of Leicester and the Azad University, the team are focusing upon the transformation of simple, egalitarian Neolithic communities into more hierarchical ones..."