The Achaemenid City of Dahaneh Gholaman, its Ranking and Social Classes

Subject Areas : Historical Archaeology

Alireza Hejebri Nobari ¹ (Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.)
Hassan Ali Arab ² (M.A. in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.)
Nadereh Noor Ghasemi ³ (Lecturer, Department of Graphics, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar Branch, Shabestar, Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-25 Accepted : 2023-07-25 Published : 2007-08-23

Keywords: Structural analysis, Social System, Achaemenians, Dahaneh Gholaman,

Abstract :

Various processes in different scales and dimensions have caused the development of human societies and have changed and transformed their structure. The social classes that are born and nurtured by these societies have caused the complexity of their biological patterns and the interpretation of the data revealed from them constitutes our knowledge regarding these societies (in this research, ancient societies). The purpose of this research is to pay attention to the archaeological evidence with a social approach. Based on this, we tried to investigate the social structure - rank, role and social status - of the Dahaneh Gholaman site by interpreting and measuring their behavioral manifestations, which today have come as ancient deposits, in the framework of social patterns. In this article, the classification of societies, their diversity, how to interpret archaeological data from a social theoretical perspective, and various approaches used in the ranking of societies are presented. Besides, the social system of the site was analyzed by introducing the archaeological data of the Dahaneh Gholaman site and putting together the existing evidence and theories. In addition, it was tried to determine the different groups, ranks and classes of this site by economic strategies and to identify the arrangement of structures in direct relation with social classes and two separate neighborhoods in the city.