Princeton University Art Museum – Tuttle Lecture Hall (Room 134)

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  • Highland, Lowland: Chlorite Landscapes of the Iranian Plateau in the Third Millennium BCE (Lecture by Breton Langendorfer)

    Princeton University Art Museum - Tuttle Lecture Hall (Room 134) 45 Elm Drive, Princeton, NJ, United States

    In 2001, flooding near the city of Jiroft in southeastern Iran exposed a vast Bronze Age cemetery. Large quantities of vessels made from a dark soft stone known as chlorite or steatite began to appear on antiquities markets, the majority of which were successfully repatriated by Iranian authorities. These events spurred new archaeological exploration in […]