Professor Daniel Potts
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About Professor Daniel Potts
Professor Daniel Potts’ research interests centre on cultural developments in Iran, Mesopotamia and the Arabian peninsula, as well as relations between these regions and their neighbours.
Professor Potts' fieldwork has been mainly conducted in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the experience on working on multi-period sites has meant that my interests extend, chronologically, from the Neolithic to the Islamic conquest. He is interested in the evolution of technology (ceramic, metallurgical, agricultural), political systems, and economic organisation. He is also fascinated by Near Eastern religious traditions and the problems of understanding them, particularly in situations where different cultures overlap or collide, as happened during the Achaemenid Persian, Macedonian, Parthian and Sasanian periods. Professor Potts is also extremely interested in using cuneiform sources to understand ancient economies, as an adjunct to archaeological approaches.