From Palace to Town. Report on the multidisciplinary project carried out by the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission on the Persepolis Terrace (Fars, Iran), 2008-2013, 4. Science for Archaeology.

The project started in 2008 by the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars, “From Palace to Town: An integrated multidisciplinary approach to Persepolis terrace and town”, had two main objectives, respectively in the fields of archaeology and conservation. The multidisciplinary approach of an up-to-date study of the past has included the application of physical and chemical investigations to the study of various classes of finds from the excavations at the sites of Persepolis West and Bagh-e Firuzi / Tol-e Ajori, representing the archaeological section of the project. This volume, the fourth of the series of final reports on the 2008-2013 project “From Palace to Town”, includes archaeometric studies on raw clay, ceramics, bricks, metals and bitumen. It makes available the large amount of data collected in these fields, and represents an important contribution to the knowledge of the production of these classes of archaeological materials from ancient Iran.