Nomadism in Iran - Potts, D. T. (Professor of Anient Near Eastern Archaeology, Professor of Anient Near Eastern Archaeology, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University)

The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern archaeologists have envisaged it.