Kristen Hopper's Outputs (24)

Landscape evolution and agro-sylvo-pastoral activities on the Gorgan Plain (NE Iran)in the last 6000 years (2016)
Journal Article
Shumilovskikh, L. S., Hopper, K., Djamali, M., Ponel, P., Demory, F., Rostek, F., Tachikawa, K., Bittmann, F., Golyeva, A., Guibal, F., Talon, B., Wang, L.-C., Nezamabadi, M., Bard, E., Lahijani, H., Nokandeh, J., Rekavandi, H. O., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Sauer, E., & Andrieu-Ponel, V. (2016). Landscape evolution and agro-sylvo-pastoral activities on the Gorgan Plain (NE Iran)in the last 6000 years. Holocene, 26(10 : special issue), 1676 - 1691. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616646841

The Gorgan Plain (NE Iran) is characterized by fertile soils formed on a loess plateau and is at present primarily exploited for intensive agriculture. However, the timing and intensity of the human impact on the landscape in the past are still uncle... Read More about Landscape evolution and agro-sylvo-pastoral activities on the Gorgan Plain (NE Iran)in the last 6000 years.

Northern outpost of the Caliphate: maintaining military forces in a hostile environment (the Dariali Gorge in the Central Caucasus in Georgia) (2015)
Journal Article
Sauer, E., Pitskhelauri, K., Hopper, K., Tiliakou, A., Pickard, C., Lawrence, D., …Shupe, C. (2015). Northern outpost of the Caliphate: maintaining military forces in a hostile environment (the Dariali Gorge in the Central Caucasus in Georgia). Antiquity, 89(346), 885-904. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.80

The strategic significance of the Dariali Gorge, the main pass across the central Caucasus, has long been recognised. It forms a border today as it has done for much of the past 2000 years. But how was an effective military force sustained in an isol... Read More about Northern outpost of the Caliphate: maintaining military forces in a hostile environment (the Dariali Gorge in the Central Caucasus in Georgia).

Population and Settlement Trends in Southwest Iran and Neighbouring Areas (2013)
Book Chapter
Hopper, K., & Wilkinson, T. (2013). Population and Settlement Trends in Southwest Iran and Neighbouring Areas. In C. Petrie (Ed.), Ancient Iran and its Neighbours: Local developments and long-range interactions in the fourth millennium BC (35-50). British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs Series. Oxbow Books

The Landscapes of the Gorgān Wall. (2013)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, T. J., Rekavandi, H. O., Hopper, K., Priestman, S., Roustaei, K., & Galiatsatos, N. (2013). The Landscapes of the Gorgān Wall. In H. O. W. Rekavandi, J. S. Tony J. Nokandeh, & W. Eberhard (Eds.), Persia's Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran (24-132). Oxbow Books