ABSTRACT
In contemporary geopolitics and throughout recorded history, Iran has played a key and distinctive role in world affairs, a place where ideas, ideologies, movements, technologies and practices have been generated, developed, consumed, imported, reworked and exported in new forms through networks of engagement often spanning much of Asia and well beyond. The authors grouped these issues, which might more aptly be titled “Global Challenges,” into five themes: emergence, communities and complexity; resilience, persistence, transformation and collapse; movement, mobility and migration; cognition, behavior and identity; and human-environment interactions. The people never cease to be impressed by the numbers and the high-quality of Iranian post-graduate students across the country with the passion, commitment and expertise to take the discipline of Iranian archaeology forward, often in highly challenging circumstances.
