Resources

Internet links

https://archeologie.culture.fr/fr/a-propos/bam

Journal articles & book chapters

• Garazhian Omran & Mutin Benjamin. Forthcoming. Copper Compartmented Seals from the Bam Region (Kerman, Iran). In: Parpola A. & Koskikallio P. (eds.), Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae / Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India).
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2021. Migrations, transfers, exchanges, convergences? Assessing similarities and differences among the earliest farmers between the Daulatabad and Kachi Plains (Southern Iran and Pakistan). In: Lebeau M. (ed.), Identity, Diversity & Contacts. Proceedings of the International Congress The East 1. Turnhout: Brepols.
• Mutin Benjamin, Garazhian Omran & Shakooie Maryam. 2020. The Neolithic regional settlement of Darestan, Southern Lut Desert, Iran. Archaeological Research in Asia 24 (2020) 100230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2020.100230.
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2019. Iranian-French Archaeological Mission in Bam, Kerman. Summary of Field-Seasons 2016-2017. Archaeology. Journal of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research 2(2): 93-106.
• Garazhian Omran, Mutin Benjamin & Mohammadkhani Kourosh. 2019. Comparative Assessment of Geomagnetic Survey Results with Archaeological Test-Trenches. Case study of Tell-e Atashi, Darestan, Southeastern Kerman (in Persian). In: Shirazi R. (ed.), 16^th Annual Symposium on the Iranian Archaeology (A Collection of Short Articles 2017): 410-413. Tehran: ICAR and RICHT.
• Garazhian Omran & Mutin Benjamin. 2019. General archaeological survey of the Bam-Narmashir region with an emphasis on Darestan (in Persian). In: Shirazi R. (ed.), 15^th Annual Symposium on the Iranian Archaeology (A Collection of Short Articles 2016): 314-318. Tehran: ICAR and RICHT.
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2018. Bam Archaeological Mission (BAM). A New Archaeological Research Program in Kerman Province, Iran. Antiquity 92(363): 1-7.
• Garazhian Omran. 2016. Stratigraphic excavation at Tal-e Atashi, Darestan, Bam: Living floors of a pre-pottery Neolithic site, Southeastern Iran. In: Roustaei K. & Mashkour M. (eds.), The Neolithic of the Iranian Plateau. Recent Research: 49-74. Berlin: Ex oriente (Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 18).
• Garazhian Omran & Shakooie Maryam. 2013. Tell-e Atashi (Bam, southeastern Iran) and the Neolithic of the eastern Near East. In: Matthews R. & Fazeli Nashli H. (eds.), The Neolithisation of Iran. The Formation of New Societies: 284-296. Oxford and Oakville: Oxbow Books (British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology Monograph Series 3).
• Garazhian Omran. 2009. Darestan: a group of pre-pottery Neolithic (PPN) sites in South-Eastern Iran. Antiquity Project Gallery 83(319). http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/garazhian319/.

Additional references

• Adle Chahryar. 2006. Qanats of Bam: An archaeological perspective. Irrigation system in Bam, its birth and evolution from the prehistoric period up to modern times. In: Honari N., Salamat A., Salih A., Sutton J., Taniguchi J. (eds.), Qanats of Bam. A multidisciplinary approach: 33-85. Tehran: UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office.
• Atayi Mohammad & Zare Sharam. 2019. A new Achaemenid building-complex in Kerman. Evidence from Mahdiabad-e Olia (Rigan-Kerman). Arta 2019.004. http://www.achemenet.com/pdf/arta/ARTA_2019_004.pdf.

Conferences, Seminars, Public lectures & Interviews

• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2021. Between the Fertile Crescent and South Asia: Tell-e Atashi and the Neolithic of the southern Lut Desert, Iran, 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Bologna, Italy.
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2021. Recherches archéologiques franco-iraniennes dans le sud du Désert du Lut. Centre Franco-Iranien, Paris, France.
• Garazhian Omran & Mutin Benjamin. 2020. Results from recent archaeological survey in the Bam region and stratigraphic excavation at Tell-e Atashi, Kerman Province, Research Week of the University of Sistan-va-Balochistan, Zabol, Iran.
• Mutin Benjamin, Garazhian Omran & Juercke Friederike. 2020. Human-landscape coevolution in the southern Lut Desert, Iran, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2019. Reinvestigating the Neolithic Period in Southeastern Iran and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands: Results from Recent Field Research in Darestan, Iran, First International Conference of The East, Brussels, Belgium.
• Mutin Benjamin. 2019. Investigating the Food Production Revolution East of the Fertile Crescent. New Data from Recent Field Research in Eastern Iran, Archaeology Program Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
• Garazhian Omran, Mutin Benjamin & Mohammadkhani Kourosh. 2019. Comparative Assessment of Geomagnetic Survey Results with Archaeological Test-Trenches. Case-Study of Tell-e Atashi, Darestan, Southeastern Kerman, 16th Annual Symposium on the Iranian Archaeology, Tehran, Iran.
• Mutin Benjamin. 2018. On the tracks of the earliest farmers of South Asia. Archaeology: How does it work? , Taste of Science, Boston, USA.
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2017. Objectives and First Results of the New Bam Archaeological Mission (Southeastern Iran) and their Implications for the Archaeology of South Asia, Ninth Annual Workshop on South Asian Archaeology, The City University of New York, The Graduate School and University Center.
• Garazhian Omran & Mutin Benjamin. 2017. New Archaeological Research in Bam-Narmashir, Kerman. Second International Conference on the Archaeology of Southeastern Iran, Jiroft, Iran.
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2017. Recent Archaeological Research in the Southern Periphery of the Lut Desert, Iran, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
• Garazhian Omran & Mutin Benjamin. 2017. New Iranian-French Joint Archaeological Mission in Bam (Southeastern Iran). Results of Field Season 2016 and Objectives, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Tehran, Iran.
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2017. The Neolithization of Northwest South Asia: Fresh View from New Bam Archaeological Mission, Kerman, Southeastern Iran, Annual Meeting of the New England Association for Asian Studies, Asia: Past, Present, Future, Boston College, USA.
• Mutin Benjamin & Garazhian Omran. 2017. À la recherche des premiers fermiers du sud de l’Iran et des confins indo-iraniens. Premiers résultats de la nouvelle mission archéologique franco-iranienne à Bam, au sud du désert du Lut, Iran, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Tehran, Iran.
• Interviews with jtwceramics.com (2020), TolueArg (2017-2018), Fars News (2017), first and fourth Iranian TV channels (2017), Islamic Republic News Agency (2016).