Southwest Iran
Tepe Farukhabad
Legacy Collection Herd Management Investigation - Est. 2022
I am the co-lead investigator for isotopic analysis and the lead faunal analyst for the reexamination of the Tepe Farukhabad legacy collection, curated at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Originally excavated by Dr. Henry Wright and previously analyzed by Dr. Richard Redding, this collection represents a key assemblage from the Uruk period (4000–3100 B.C.E.) on the Deh Luran Plain in southwest Iran. Our current project brings new analytical frameworks to this legacy material, integrating zooarchaeological, isotopic, and butchery analyses to explore early urban foodways and herd management strategies during one of the formative periods of Mesopotamian urbanism.
