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Seth followed the research interest: Sasanian Pottery
Department Member, Middle East
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Candidate
Thesis Title: Transformation of the Late Sasanian/Early Islamic Maritime Economy of the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean: Quantitative Evidence from Ceramic Trade
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About
Seth Priestman works on the archaeology of the later historic era of the Indian Ocean region with a particular focus on the Persian Gulf area and the Middle East during the Sasanian and Islamic periods. My research concentrates on long-term economic change through shifting regional settlement patterns and maritime trade underpinned by evidence for ceramic consumption and exchange. I have a particular interest in the ceramics of the Persian Gulf region, the Indo-Iranian borderlands, South Asia, the Far East and East Africa. As a somewhat separate field of research I have also recently been working on the regional Sasanian and Iron Age ceramic traditions associated with the Gorgan Wall and associated sites from northeast Iran and southern Turkmenistan.
Recent post and positions held include Curator in the Middle East Department at the British Museum working on the British Museum Siraf Project (2007-2009), Research Fellow of the British Institute of Persian Studies (2001-2005 and 2007-2009), Sackler Fellow in the then Ancient Near East Department at the British Museum working on finds from Sir Aurel Stein (2003) and Research Assistant in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University working on the Williamson Collection Project (2001-2003 and 2004).
I am currently undertaking an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Collaboration Doctoral Award with the Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton and the Middle East Department at the British Museum (2009-2012). The aim of the research is to examine long-term changes in the economic structure of the India Ocean during the Late Antique/Early Islamic transition using quantitative data from ceramic finds. The study involves bringing together data on excavated ceramic assemblages from East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Southern Iran and South Asia.
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/department |
| Address: | Middle East Department, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 3DG |
