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| 1. | ![]() | Labisi, Giuseppe: Dastgerd andar framud kardan: A diachronic study of dastgerd and related settlement models between the Sasanian and early Islamic periods. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 2. | ![]() | Gondet, Sébastien; Mohammadkhani, Kourosh: How archaeological landscape reflects institutional landscape: Pasargadae and its surrounding territory as case study. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 3. | ![]() | Hoffmann, Birgitt: Ilkhanid ways to appropriate, capitalise and develop the lands under their control: Approaches to government, land tenure and taxation. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 4. | ![]() | Xin, Wu: Institutional landscape in the Achaemenid Northeast. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 5. | ![]() | Parsa, Sarvenaz: Institutions, location, and architecture: Transformation of landscape and its meaning through the construction of chahartaq structures in ancient Iran. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 6. | ![]() | King, Rhyne: Nodes in the imperial network: “Fortified places” in the Achaemenid institutional landscape. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 7. | ![]() | Mittertrainer, Anahita: King’s land: The institutional landscape of Ardašīr-xwarrah and Bīšāpūr. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 8. | ![]() | Labbaf-Khaniki, Meysam: Sasanian fire temples of Khorasan: Institutional infrastructure across a sacred landscape. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 9. | ![]() | & Giuseppe Labisi, Ahmad Ali Asadi: Sasanian fortresses of Fars in context. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 10. | ![]() | Thomalsky, Judith; Jafari, Mohammad Javad: The arrival of an empire: Features of a ruled landscape in North-Khorasan. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 11. | ![]() | Henkelman, Wouter F. M.: The Immortal under the plane tree: The lance-bearers of Achaemenid Pārsa as agents of institutional continuity. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 12. | ![]() | Kamalizad, Jaleh: The impact of the Sasanian irrigation system on the geographical divisions and institutional waterscape in Esfahān. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 13. | ![]() | & Emad Matin, Pierfrancesco Callieri: The inception of the institutional landscape of Persepolis. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 14. | ![]() | Miri, Negin: The manifold roles of Sasanian fire temples and mows within the institutional landscape of the Sasanian Empire. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): SIdestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 15. | ![]() | Zehbari, Zohreh; Ebrahimi, Nasrollah; Borazjani, Mehrdad Parsaei: The Sasanian institutional landscape in Borazjan as seen through water management. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 16. | ![]() | Buławka, Nazarij: Transformation of settlement structures and irrigation systems in the eastern Achaemenid hinterlands: The case of the Murghab alluvial fan. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 17. | ![]() | Brown, Michael: Is This Burning an Eternal Flame? Political Crises and Dynastic Cults in Southwest Asia during Early Antiquity. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 18. | ![]() | Maziar, Sepideh: Are Archaeologists Crisis-philic? Exploring the Nexus of Climate Change and Migration. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 19. | ![]() | Reilly, Matthew C.: Crises of Our Own Making: Finding a Way Out of the Resilience Myth for Archaeology. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
| 20. | ![]() | Rafiei-Alavi,: How did the Elamites Cope with Crises? Looking at the Gap between the Middle and the Neo-Elamite Period. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX)@inbook{nokey, |
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![]() | Labisi, Giuseppe: Dastgerd andar framud kardan: A diachronic study of dastgerd and related settlement models between the Sasanian and early Islamic periods. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Islamic era, Sasanian, Settlement and subsistance systems, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Gondet, Sébastien; Mohammadkhani, Kourosh: How archaeological landscape reflects institutional landscape: Pasargadae and its surrounding territory as case study. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Institutions, Landscape, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Hoffmann, Birgitt: Ilkhanid ways to appropriate, capitalise and develop the lands under their control: Approaches to government, land tenure and taxation. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Administration, Ilkhanate, Institutions, Landscape, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Xin, Wu: Institutional landscape in the Achaemenid Northeast. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Achaemenid, Institutions, Landscape, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Parsa, Sarvenaz: Institutions, location, and architecture: Transformation of landscape and its meaning through the construction of chahartaq structures in ancient Iran. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Architecture, Institutions, Landscape, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | King, Rhyne: Nodes in the imperial network: “Fortified places” in the Achaemenid institutional landscape. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Fortification, Institutions, Landscape, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Mittertrainer, Anahita: King’s land: The institutional landscape of Ardašīr-xwarrah and Bīšāpūr. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Institutions, Landscape, Sasanian, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Labbaf-Khaniki, Meysam: Sasanian fire temples of Khorasan: Institutional infrastructure across a sacred landscape. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Institutions, Landscape, sacral, Sasanian, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | & Giuseppe Labisi, Ahmad Ali Asadi: Sasanian fortresses of Fars in context. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Fars, Fortification, Institutions, Landscape, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Thomalsky, Judith; Jafari, Mohammad Javad: The arrival of an empire: Features of a ruled landscape in North-Khorasan. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Institutions, Landscape, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Henkelman, Wouter F. M.: The Immortal under the plane tree: The lance-bearers of Achaemenid Pārsa as agents of institutional continuity. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Achaemenid, Institutions, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Kamalizad, Jaleh: The impact of the Sasanian irrigation system on the geographical divisions and institutional waterscape in Esfahān. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Institutions, Irrigation, Landscape, Sasanian, SPP, Water, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | & Emad Matin, Pierfrancesco Callieri: The inception of the institutional landscape of Persepolis. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Institutions, Landscape, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Miri, Negin: The manifold roles of Sasanian fire temples and mows within the institutional landscape of the Sasanian Empire. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): SIdestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Institutions, Landscape, sacral, Sasanian, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Zehbari, Zohreh; Ebrahimi, Nasrollah; Borazjani, Mehrdad Parsaei: The Sasanian institutional landscape in Borazjan as seen through water management. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Institutions, Irrigation, Landscape, Resources, Sasanian, SPP, Water, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Buławka, Nazarij: Transformation of settlement structures and irrigation systems in the eastern Achaemenid hinterlands: The case of the Murghab alluvial fan. In: Hauser, Stefan R.; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Labisi, Giuseppe (Ed.): Sidestone, Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Achaemenid, Institutions, Irrigation, Landscape, Settlement and subsistance systems, Settlement structure, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Brown, Michael: Is This Burning an Eternal Flame? Political Crises and Dynastic Cults in Southwest Asia during Early Antiquity. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, sacral, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Maziar, Sepideh: Are Archaeologists Crisis-philic? Exploring the Nexus of Climate Change and Migration. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate, Crisis, Mobility, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Reilly, Matthew C.: Crises of Our Own Making: Finding a Way Out of the Resilience Myth for Archaeology. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, Resilience, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Rafiei-Alavi,: How did the Elamites Cope with Crises? Looking at the Gap between the Middle and the Neo-Elamite Period. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, Elam, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Hausmair, Barbara: Death at the beginning of life. Medieval and early modern infant burial as response to multiple crises and what we can learn from it today. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Riede, Felix: Climate and Crises: Towards an Eventful and Punctuated Prehistory. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Zehbari, Zohreh: Dehqaed’s Natural Crises and the Challenge of Flooding. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, SPP, Water, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Mishmastnehi, Moslem; Bernbeck, Reinhard: Fending off Crises with Porosity: Sand, Water and Wind in the Helmand Basin. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Susan Pollock Reinhard Bernbeck,; Eger, Jana: Probing Criticality: Sliding Scales of Crisis in Two Highland Societies. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Franke, Kristina A: On the Edge of Crisis – A View from Archaeometry. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Archaeometry, Crisis, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Stöllner, Thomas: Metal and Crisis: Crisis Phenomena in the Production, Distribution and Utilisation of Copper and Other Metals Between the 4th and the Late 2nd Millennium BCE in West Asia. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, Metal Resources, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
![]() | Thomalsky, Judith; Abedi, Akbar: No Risk, No Neolithisation. In: Pollock, Susan; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Eberhardt, Gisela; Kehl, Martin (Ed.): Sidestone, Unforeseeable Futures. Confronting Crises in the Archaeology of Highland Societies, 2026. (Type: Book Chapter | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Crisis, Neolithic, SPP, Workshop)@inbook{nokey, |
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![]() | Wang, Jiayue; Soroush, Mehrnoush; Maziar, Sepideh; Khazraee, Emad: Predictive Modeling for Targeted Archaeological Survey of Arsacid Period Sites in the Iranian Borderland Region of the Araxes River Valley. In: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 2, 2025. (Type: Journal Article | Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: SPP)@article{nokey,We have applied predictive modeling to archaeological sites, datable to the Arsacid period (ca. 3rd c. BCE–3rd c. CE), in the southern side of the Araxes River valley, in modern day Iran. Araxes River valley is a contested borderland between Iran, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Systematic fieldwork has been historically limited by geopolitical tensions. The only systematic survey in the region and two salvage surveys have yielded a large number of sites that could belong to the Arsacid period—with varying levels of certainty—a period often undermined by scholarly attention to the subsequent Sasanian period (ca. 3rd–7th c. CE). We use this data as a training dataset to specify areas with high probability of finding more Arsacid period sites for future targeted surveys. Our paper follows previous research which has emphasized using machine learning approaches for archaeological predictive modeling. Acknowledging the inevitable oversight of social factors involved in settlement distribution, our statistical models produce probability of finding Arsacid period sites while also offering some insight into the physical attributes of settlement positioning in the Arsacid period. We tested several common machine learning (ML) models and suggested the suitability of Random Forest models for archaeological predictive modeling. We have applied Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to ensure component independence in modeling. Finally, we have investigated various theories regarding working with a subselection of principal components (PCs). Our study recommends using all PCAs, especially when the number of predictors does not create computational challenges. We support the argument made by Kvamme (2023) that lower PCs are particularly relevant for archaeological predictive modeling, but, we disagree with using them without other PCs. |


