#  The Proto-Elamite Settlement and its Neighbors: Tepe Yahya Period IVC 

 



 **PUBLISHED 2013**. *Please visit the **[publication's webpage](/publications/proto-elamite-settlement-and-its-neighbors-tepe-yahya-period-ivc)***.

 The site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other important aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). The material culture of Period IVC is not exclusively limited to its Proto-Elamite component, but is also characterized by the presence of elements from other Middle Asian cultural ceramic traditions. In addition to a synthesis of the Proto-Elamite period and the material assemblage at Tepe Yahya, *The Proto-Elamite Settlement and its Neighbors* will provide an updated review and comprehensive discussion of the Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and its eastern Middle Asian neighbors. This innovative book will illustrate that the “multi-cultural” situation at Tepe Yahya Period IVC was present across many sites in Middle Asia and that, in addition to the Proto-Elamite sphere and the cities of Mesopotamia, Middle Asia around 3000 BC was incorporated within an interactive “multi-players” network of polities.

 The publication project is directed by **[Dr. Benjamin Mutin](/people/benjamin-mutin)**.

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   ![Tepe Yahya Map](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/whitelevy/files/mutin_map.jpg?itok=5ThSgaey) 

 



 



 

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