Aydin Abar

Ruhr University Bochum | RUB · Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften

This paper discusses the tension between natural science-driven and social science-driven approaches to human migration in late prehistory, focussing especially on the 3rd millennium BC. In order to understand the relevant issues at the core of these tensions, we discuss recent research on prehistoric migrations based on aDNA data and confront it w...

Migrations constitute one of the most defining features of human history from the very beginning to the present. In recent years, the increasing application of ancient DNA and isotope studies has been revolutionising our understanding of past population movements, although the interpretation of the results is often still controversial. This volume...

This book is a multivocal and heartfelt “Thank You!” present to Susan Pollock on her 65th birthday. In each of the 46 contributions the 63 authors from West and Central AsiaAmerica and Europs celebrate Susan Pollock as a multi-facetted and brilliant scholar and colleague, as a devoted and outstanding teacher and as an empathetic mentor. The range o...

During 2004, 2005, and 2010 scientific excavations took place at the salt mine of Chehrābād. According to the work conducted and further scientific investigations, the beginning of salt exploitation dates to the mid-first millennium BC. Some indications possibly hint to mining activities during the Late Arsacid period. Salt extraction certainly was...

This article deals with the pottery assemblages of Čale Gər mine 1, Vešnave, Iran. The site was excavated in the course of a joint research project conducted by the Iranian Miras-e Farhangi Tehran, Iran, and the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Ger-many. The assemblage comprises of a number of very different objects, from small fragments to complet...