@article {31167,
	title = {Formation and Destruction of Pastoral and Irrigation Landscapes on the Mughan Steppe, North-Western Iran},
	journal = {Antiquity},
	volume = {81},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {148-160},
	abstract = {
	CORONA satellite photography taken in the 1960s continues to reveal buried ancient landscapes and sequences of landscapes {\textendash} some of them no longer visible. In this new survey of the Mughan Steppe in north-western Iran, the authors map a {\textquoteleft}signature landscape{\textquoteright} belonging to Sasanian irrigators, and discover that the traces of the nomadic peoples that succeeded them also show up on CORONA {\textendash} in the form of scoops for animal shelters. The remains of these highly significant pastoralists have been virtually obliterated since the CORONA surveys by a new wave of irrigation farming. Such archaeological evaluation of a landscape has grave implications for the heritage of grassland nomads and the appreciation of their impact on history.



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},
	url = {https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4269028},
	author = {Alizadeh, Karim and Ur, Jason A.}
}
