Exchange System Patterns in Bam, Southeastern Iran, after the Earthquake (December 2003)

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ID2993564
AuthorsLeila Papoli Yazdi, Leila Yazdi, Omran Garazhian (0000-0003-1829-8872), Maryam Dezhamkhooy
Year2011
Volume3
Issue1
Pages29-62
Publication date2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnoarchaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1944-2890 • E-ISSN: 1944-2904
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/eth.2011.3.1.29
OpenAlexW2093446284
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited27

Bam, a city located in southeastern Iran, was dramatically destroyed in a 6.8 (Mw) earthquake on December 26, 2003. As a result of the earthquake, more than half the city residents of this local trade center died and more than 80 percent of Bam market shops, retailers, and wholesalers suffered damage. The businesses also experienced long-term closure, as well as the emigration and immigration of traders. The damage to the Bam market influenced all districts in the region. The routine patterns of exchange and trade changed and affected the individual lives of ordinary people and traders. Over a period of three years, the Bam disaster ethnoarchaeology project investigated these changes and the processes of suffering damage, closure, and return to the routine ways of life in Bam and its subsidiaries. In this article, we then apply what we learned about disaster processes to help explain the changing patterns of the western Asia trade system during the Bronze Age

Seismology · earthquake and tectonic studies · Earthquake Detection and Analysis · Marine and environmental studies · Geology

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