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Record Nr.

UNISA996214052403316

Autore

Potts Daniel T.

Titolo

Nomadism in Iran : from antiquity to the modern era / / D. T. Potts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-19-933080-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Disciplina

305.9069180955

Soggetti

Nomads - Iran - History

Iran Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Potts examines the development of nomadism in Iran over the course of three millennia. Evidence of nomadism in prehistory is examined and found insufficient to justify claims of its great antiquity. The background of the earliest nomadic groups, identified as Persian tribes by Herodotus, is examined within the context of the migration of Iranian speakers onto the Iranian plateau in the late second or early first millennium B.C. Thereafter, evidence of nomadic groups in Late Antiquity and early Islamic times is reviewed.