William B Trousdale
Biographic Data
| ID | 3571532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William B Trousdale |
| GIVEN NAMES | William B |
| FAMILY NAME | Trousdale |
| SIGNATURE | TROUSDALE W B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smithsonian Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan, Volume 1
Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan
Helmand Valley Sites
This chapters describes the 50 archaeological sites identified and surveyed by the Helmand Sistan Project along the Helmand River between Lashkar Gah and the hamun lakes. These sites date from the Bronze Age to the post-Timurid age. Each site is briefly described in the chapter with its coordinates, its type, its occupation dates(s), and its listing in the 2019 Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan (if any). A brief description of each site is …
Other Sites
This chapters describes 8 archaeological sites identified and surveyed by the Helmand Sistan Project that are neither in Sar-o-Tar (chapter 5) nor along the Helmand River between Lashkar Gah and the hamun lakes (chapter 6). These sites date from the Bronze Age to the post-Timurid age. Each site is briefly described in the chapter with its coordinates, its type, its occupation dates(s), and its listing in the 2019 Archaeological Gazetteer of Afgha…
Excavated Sites
This chapter describes the 11 sites excavated by the Helmand Sistan Project in the 1970s. Each site is identified with its coordinates, its type, its occupation dates(s), and its listing in the 2019 Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan (if any). A brief description of the excavation work conducted at each site is provided, including the extent and strategy of the excavation. A brief summary of the architecture and material culture found there …
Sar-o-Tar
This lengthy chapters describes the 103 archaeological sites identified and surveyed by the Helmand Sistan Project in the region of Sar-o-Tar, a flat plain east of the Helmand River delta. These sites date from the Bronze Age to the post-Timurid age. Each site is briefly described in the chapter with its coordinates, its type, its occupation dates(s), and its listing in the 2019 Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan (if any). A brief descriptio…
History of Archaeological Research in Afghan Sistan
This chapter traces the historical and archaeological study of Afghan Sistan from the time of European travelers in the 19 th century to the present. Numerous English and other European visitors to Sistan in the 19 th century wrote journals of their travels. The border location of Sistan meant that the various Afghan boundary commissions of the 1880s and subsequent decades spent much time in the area, including surveyor G.P. Tate, who wrote the f…
History of the Sistan Region
This chapter introduces the region of Sistan, the southwestern corner of Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan and Iran, and the development of the Helmand Sistan Project, a joint US-Afghan archaeological project that conducted the most extensive fieldwork in this region in the 1970s. The primary geographic features of the area are briefly described. The forty-year process of producing a final publication of this project is chronicled. The content…
The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan, Volume 1
This book is the first of two volumes comprising a legacy report of ten years of a joint US/Afghan archaeological project in the southwest quadrant of Afghanistan-- the Helmand Valley and Sistan region. Though conducted in the 1970s, political events in Afghanistan make this both the first and most recent archaeological synthesis of the region, likely the only one for decades to come. The Helmand River is one of the main routes between the Middle…
The Helmand Baluch
In the 1970s, in his capacity as government representative from the Afghan Institute of Archaeology, Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Afghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan. The results of his work were published in Farsi as a descriptive ethnographic monograph. The Helmand Baluch is the first English translation of Amiri’s extraordinary encounters. This rich ethnography describes the cultural, polit…
Early Iron Age culture of Sistan, Afghanistan
The Helmand Sistan Project, conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and Afghan Directorate of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in the 1970s but hitherto unpublished, uncovered through survey and excavation an extensive settlement system along the lower Helmand River dating to the late second and early first millennia BCE. Of note were a series of platform-based settlements in the Sar-o-Tar region east of the Helmand River along of a series …
Archeology
The Long Sword and Scabbard Slide in Asia
Where All The Swords Have Gone
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The World of the Huns
Archaeology
The Stones of Eden. Written, directed, and photographed by W illiam A. F urman
A Chinese Handle-Bearing Mirror from Northern Afghanistan
Early Iron Age culture of Sistan, Afghanistan
The Helmand Sistan Project, conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and Afghan Directorate of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in the 1970s but hitherto unpublished, uncovered through survey and excavation an extensive settlement system along the lower Helmand River dating to the late second and early first millennia BCE. Of note were a series of platform-based settlements in the Sar-o-Tar region east of the Helmand River along of a series …
A Chinese Handle-Bearing Mirror from Northern Afghanistan
A Chinese Handle-Bearing Mirror from Northern Afghanistan
The Stones of Eden. Written, directed, and photographed by W illiam A. F urman
The World of the Huns
Archaeology
Where All The Swords Have Gone
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Long Sword and Scabbard Slide in Asia
Archeology
Early Iron Age culture of Sistan, Afghanistan
The Helmand Sistan Project, conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and Afghan Directorate of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in the 1970s but hitherto unpublished, uncovered through survey and excavation an extensive settlement system along the lower Helmand River dating to the late second and early first millennia BCE. Of note were a series of platform-based settlements in the Sar-o-Tar region east of the Helmand River along of a series …
The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan, Volume 1
Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan
Helmand Valley Sites
This chapters describes the 50 archaeological sites identified and surveyed by the Helmand Sistan Project along the Helmand River between Lashkar Gah and the hamun lakes. These sites date from the Bronze Age to the post-Timurid age. Each site is briefly described in the chapter with its coordinates, its type, its occupation dates(s), and its listing in the 2019 Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan (if any). A brief description of each site is …
Other Sites
This chapters describes 8 archaeological sites identified and surveyed by the Helmand Sistan Project that are neither in Sar-o-Tar (chapter 5) nor along the Helmand River between Lashkar Gah and the hamun lakes (chapter 6). These sites date from the Bronze Age to the post-Timurid age. Each site is briefly described in the chapter with its coordinates, its type, its occupation dates(s), and its listing in the 2019 Archaeological Gazetteer of Afgha…
Excavated Sites
This chapter describes the 11 sites excavated by the Helmand Sistan Project in the 1970s. Each site is identified with its coordinates, its type, its occupation dates(s), and its listing in the 2019 Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan (if any). A brief description of the excavation work conducted at each site is provided, including the extent and strategy of the excavation. A brief summary of the architecture and material culture found there …
Sar-o-Tar
This lengthy chapters describes the 103 archaeological sites identified and surveyed by the Helmand Sistan Project in the region of Sar-o-Tar, a flat plain east of the Helmand River delta. These sites date from the Bronze Age to the post-Timurid age. Each site is briefly described in the chapter with its coordinates, its type, its occupation dates(s), and its listing in the 2019 Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan (if any). A brief descriptio…
History of Archaeological Research in Afghan Sistan
This chapter traces the historical and archaeological study of Afghan Sistan from the time of European travelers in the 19 th century to the present. Numerous English and other European visitors to Sistan in the 19 th century wrote journals of their travels. The border location of Sistan meant that the various Afghan boundary commissions of the 1880s and subsequent decades spent much time in the area, including surveyor G.P. Tate, who wrote the f…
History of the Sistan Region
This chapter introduces the region of Sistan, the southwestern corner of Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan and Iran, and the development of the Helmand Sistan Project, a joint US-Afghan archaeological project that conducted the most extensive fieldwork in this region in the 1970s. The primary geographic features of the area are briefly described. The forty-year process of producing a final publication of this project is chronicled. The content…
The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan, Volume 1
This book is the first of two volumes comprising a legacy report of ten years of a joint US/Afghan archaeological project in the southwest quadrant of Afghanistan-- the Helmand Valley and Sistan region. Though conducted in the 1970s, political events in Afghanistan make this both the first and most recent archaeological synthesis of the region, likely the only one for decades to come. The Helmand River is one of the main routes between the Middle…
The Helmand Baluch
In the 1970s, in his capacity as government representative from the Afghan Institute of Archaeology, Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Afghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan. The results of his work were published in Farsi as a descriptive ethnographic monograph. The Helmand Baluch is the first English translation of Amiri’s extraordinary encounters. This rich ethnography describes the cultural, polit…
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