David Stronach
British archaeologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Brian Stronach was a British archaeologist of ancient Iran and Iraq who became an expert on the city of Pasargadae and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in June 1931, Stronach was the son of Ian David Stronach FRCSE and his wife Marjorie Jessie Duncan Minto, and was educated at Gordonstoun School and St John's College, Cambridge, from which he graduated Master of Arts in 1958. In the 1960s and 1970s he was director of the British Institute of Persian Studies in Tehran. In the 1990s, he excavated several parts of Nineveh. His scholarship earned him several honours and awards, including the invitation to deliver endowed lectures at Harvard and Columbia.
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- Pasargadae: A report on the excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963 (1979) (61)
- Excavations at Tepe Nush-I Jan (1978) (61)
- The Development and Diffusion of Metal Types in Early Bronze Age Anatolia (1957) (58)
- Two Nursing Home Outbreaks of Respiratory Infection with Legionella sainthelensi (1999) (47)
- Excavations at Ras al ‘Amiya (1961) (47)
- Excavations at Pasargadae: Second Preliminary Report (1963) (45)
- Achaemenid Village I at Susa and the Persian Migration to Fars (1974) (35)
- Urartian and Achaemenian Tower Temples (1967) (35)
- Excavations at Beycesultan, 1958 (1959) (32)
- The Garden as a Political Statement : Some Case Studies from the Near East in the First Millennium B. C. (1990) (32)
- Excavations at Shahr-I Qūmis, 1967 (1970) (32)
- Three Seljuq Tomb Towers (1966) (29)
- The Kūh-i-Shahrak Fire Altar (1966) (27)
- TEPE NŪSH-I JĀN: THE MEDIAN SETTLEMENT (1985) (23)
- The Development of the Fibula in the Near East (1959) (23)
- Excavations at Tepe Nūsh-i Jān, 1967 (1969) (20)
- Parterres and stone watercourses at Pasargadae: notes on the Achaemenid contribution to garden design (1994) (20)
- Preliminary report on the 1993 excavations at Horom, Armenia (1994) (17)
- EXCAVATIONS AT HACILAR (2011) (16)
- SURVEY OF EXCAVATIONS IN IRAN DURING 1970-71. SHAR-I QUMIS (1972) (15)
- Preliminary Report on the 1992 Excavations at Horom, Armenia (1993) (15)
- Early Achaemenid Coinage : Perspectives from the Homeland in Mélanges P. Amiet II. (1989) (14)
- UC Berkeley's Excavations at Nineveh (1992) (14)
- Tepe Nush-i Jan: A Mound in Media (1968) (13)
- A Sasanian repository at Shahr-i Qūmis (1970) (11)
- Tepe Nūsh-i Jān, 1970: Second Interim Report (1973) (11)
- Excavations at Shahr-I Qūmis, 1971 (1974) (9)
- Metal Objects from the 1957 Excavations at Nimrud (1958) (9)
- The 1995 Daghestan-American Velikent Expedition: Excavations in Daghestan, Russia (1997) (8)
- Daghestan-american archaeological investigations in Daghestan, Russia 1997-99 (2000) (8)
- Alternative Explanations for Anomalous 14C Ages on Human Skeletons Associated with the 612 BCE Destruction of Nineveh (2010) (6)
- The Ashlar Building at Kerkenes Dağ : An interim report (2003) (6)
- A Circular Symbol on the Tomb of Cyrus (1971) (5)
- On the date of the Oxus Gold Scabbard and other Achaemenid matters (1998) (5)
- Survey of Excavations in Iran during 1972-73 (1974) (5)
- UNE STATUE DE DARIUS DECOUVERTE A SUSE: DESCRIPTION AND COMMENT (1972) (4)
- The 1994 excavations of the Daghestan-American archaeological expedition to Velikent in southern Daghestan, Russia (1995) (3)
- Standing Stones in the Atrek Region: The Ḥālat Nabī Cemetery (1981) (3)
- Survey of Excavations in Iran: 1976. Shahr-i Qumis (1977) (2)
- The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar (2018) (2)
- Darius at Pasargadae : A neglected Source for the History of Early Persia (1997) (2)
- Cyrus and the Kingship of Anshan: Further Perspectives (2013) (2)
- The arjan tomb : Innovation and acculturation in the last days of elam (2005) (2)
- A Pipes Player and a Lyre Player:: Notes on Three Achaemenid or Near-Achaemenid Silver Rhyta Found in the Vicinity of Erebuni, Armenia (2011) (2)
- Icons of dominion: Review scenes at Til Barsip and Persepolis (2002) (2)
- Survey of Excavations in Iran during 1966-67 (1968) (2)
- The Kerkenes Project 2000 (2000) (1)
- Early Achaemenid Iran: New Considerations (2003) (0)
- Media (2021) (0)
- Obituaries (2006) (0)
- Mid-Parthian Pottery from Building V at Shahr-i Qumis (2019) (0)
- Max Mallowan and Georgina Herrmann: Furniture from SW7, Fort Shalmaneser: ivories from Nimrud (1949–1963), fascicule III. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1974. 235 pp., III pls., 14 figs. £10.50 (Gertrude Bell Memorial.) (1977) (0)
- The Kerkenes Project 2001 (2001) (0)
- NOTES ON NINEVEH, BABYLON AND THE HANGING GARDENS (2018) (0)
- A PAP ATA (2009) (0)
- Architectural and Other Observations Related to Erebuni in the Late Seventh/Early Sixth Centuries B.C. (2018) (0)
- Obituaries (2009) (0)
- William Culican: The Medes and Persians. (Vol. 42, Ancient Peoples and Places). London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. 260 pp. including 76 photographs, 52 figs. 35s. (1965) (0)
- The severity of infectious gastroenteritis is not related to patient anxiety and depression (2000) (0)
- The Persian Empire. By J. M. Cook. 23 × 15 cm. Pp. ix + 275, 13 figs. + 43 pls. London: J. M. Dent, 1983. ISBN 0–460–04448–6. £12.95. (1984) (0)
- Bulletin of the Asia Institute. Alexander’s Legacy in the East. Studies in Honor of Paul Bernard. 12, 1998 [paru 2001], 271 p. (2003) (0)
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