Textile, Fashion, and Gender Semiotic Studies in the Ancient Near East (2/2)
Part 2: Socio-cultural aspects of textiles and women
Part 2: Socio-cultural aspects of textiles and women
These two blogs, which will appear successively, report the preliminary results of three conferences I participated within the framework of “gender studies.” Kouzehgari, Z. 2022, “Textile as Social Status Marker: Textile and Collective and Individual Fashion...
An International Research Network focused on Caucasian Late Prehistory An international Research Network (IRN) focused on Caucasian Late Prehistory was launched in 2019 by the present authors. As indicated by its name: Worlds in transition: migrations,...
Whether you notice them or not, non-human animals form an important part of human lives. They interact with human society not just as resources to be managed, but as rich symbolic referents, religious icons, companions, and...
Geography of Turkmenistan Turkmenistan covers 488,100 square kilometers and is located in southwestern Central Asia. It is bordered by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the north and northeast, the Caspian Sea to the west, and Iran, Afghanistan...
The study of the Iron Age site of Sangtarashan (end of the IInd millennium – first half of the 1st millennium BCE) was the focus of my PhD thesis entitled “The Luristan Culture During the Iron...
The second meeting of the Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network took place on November 2–4, 2017, in the Topoi building in Dahlem, Berlin. This international conference was made possible by the Eurasien-Abteilung of the Deutsches Archäologisches...