Drawn from interviews conducted between 2007 and 2020, this account of the life of renowned archaeologist and former director of the British Institute of Persian Studies, David Brian Stronach, reveals a lost period in international archaeology within Iran, when BIPS was founded and acted as a unique intellectual hub for archaeologists, expats, scholars and foreigners
It describes the challenges he faced establishing the Institute and his experiences working with some of the 20th century's most fascinating personalities in archaeology, such as James Mellaart, Max Mallowan, Seton Lloyd and Agatha Christie. It also provides a new account of the effects of the Iranian revolution of 1979 on Stronach's own life's work, on the Institute he built, and on the international world of Iranian archaeology.
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David Stronach and British Archaeology in the Middle East
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 ‘Torridon’: A first home in Nottinghamshire
- 2 The beginning of the Second World War: Childhood interrupted
- 3 Crossing the Atlantic
- 4 Living in North America
- 5 Re-crossing the Atlantic
- 6 A safe arrival in Lisbon
- 7 Dogfight in the clouds
- 8 Gordonstoun School
- 9 Knight’s Cross Cottage
- 10 National Service
- 11 Cambridge University
- 12 A Viking ring castle in Denmark
- 13 The palace of the Byzantine Emperors
- 14 News from home
- 15 The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
- 16 Through Anatolia on foot
- 17 Turkish period
- 18 The secret of the Dorak treasure
- 19 Max and Agatha
- 20 Max Mallowan, archaeological mentor
- 21 How I came to specialize in Iran
- 22 BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies)
- 23 Ruth Vaadia
- 24 The new Institute
- 25 David Stronach: Mentor, friend and problem-solver
- 26 Pasargadae
- 27 Mallowan and the next dig of the Institute
- 28 The Medes and Nush-i Jan
- 29 Qumis, or ‘unfinished business’
- 30 The Iranian Revolution
- 31 After the revolution
- 32 Nineveh revisited
- 33 David Stronach: Reflections on a life well-lived
- Notes
- Index
- Untitled
- Untitled
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