Publications of the Helmand Sistan Project
Allen, Mitchell, and William B. Trousdale. “Early Iron Age Culture of Sistan, Afghanistan.” Afghanistan 2, no. 1 (2019): 29–69.
Allen, Mitchell, Eric Hubbard, and William B. Trousdale. “Afghan Sistan in the Bronze Age.” In Archaeology of Southeastern Iranian Plateau Between the Neolithic and Achaemenid Periods, edited by Benjamin Mutin and Nasir Eskendari. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, forthcoming.
Amiri, Ghulam Rahman. “Share-i Ghulghula (the City of Screams) of Sar-o-Tar.” Afghanistan XXVI, no. 2 (1973): 79–90.
Amiri, Ghulam Rahman. The Helmand Baluch. Kabul: Ākadimī-i ʻUlūm-i J.D., 1977. Amiri Dari manuscript
Amiri, Ghulam Rahman. The Helmand Baluch: A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan. Edited and annotated by William B. Trousdale, with contributions by Mitchell Allen and Babrak Amiri. Translated from Dari by James Gehlhar, Mhairi Gehlhar, and Babrak Amiri. Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2020.
Crane, Howard. “The Helmand Sistan Project: An Anonymous Tomb in Bust.” East and West 29, no. 1/4 (1979): 241–246.
Crane, Howard, and William B. Trousdale. “Helmand-Sistan Project Carved Decorative and Inscribed Bricks from Bust.” East and West 22, no. 3/4 (1972): 215–226.
Trousdale, William B. “An Achaemenid Stone Weight from Afghanistan.” East and West 18, no. 3/4 (1968): 277–280.
Trousdale, William B. “Buddhistiche Klöster am Helmand Fluss.” In Ausdem Osten des Alexanderreiches: Völker und Kulturen zwischen Orient und Okzident Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indien, edited by Jakob Ozols and Volker Thewalt, 143–153. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1984.
Trousdale, William B. “The Homeland of Rustam.” Illustrated London News (1975): 87-89.
Trousdale, William B., and Mitchell Allen. The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan, Volume 1: Surveys and Excavations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Vincent, Robert K., Jr. “City of Screams.” Sunday Times Magazine, November 18, 1979: 52–61.
Whitney, John W. Geology, Water, and Wind in the Lower Helmand Basin, Southern Afghanistan, Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5182, Reston, VA: US Geological Survey, 2006.
Ziaii-Bigdeli, Layah, and Mitchell Allen. “Shahr-i Gholghola: A Saffarid Fortress City in Sistan.” American Council for Southern Asian Art Bulletin 79, Fall (2020): 6–9.
Conference Presentations and Posters
Allen, Mitchell, "The Helmand Baluch: Recovering G.R. Amiri's Lost Indigenous Ethnography of Southwest Afghanistan," Poster, American Anthropological Association, 2019
Allen, Mitchell, "Ajar in Sar-o-Tar: Parthian Storage Facilities in Ancient Sistan," Paper, Conference in honor of Elizabeth Carter, UCLA, 2020
Allen, Mitchell, "The Material Culture of Fieldnotes," Paper, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 2023
Allen, Mitchell, and William B. Trousdale, "Resuscitating an Archaeology Project: The Helmand Sistan Project in Afghanistan," paper, Society for American Archaeology, 2017
Allen, Mitchell, and William B. Trousdale, "Cultural Complexity in Parthian Sistan, Afghanistan," Paper, American Schools of Overseas Research, 2017
Allen, Mitchell, and William B. Trousdale, "The Saffarid Capital of Sistan, Afghanistan," Paper, American Schools of Overseas Research, 2018
Allen, Mitchell, and William B. Trousdale, "Timurid Period Rural Settlement in the Sar-o-Tar Desert, Afghanistan," Paper, Society for American Archaeology, 2019
Allen, Mitchell, and William B. Trousdale, "Afghan Sistan in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods," Paper, Intl. Virtual Event of Archaeology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, 2020
Allen, Mitchell, and William B. Trousdale, "Parthian-era Agriculture in Sistan, Afghanistan (200 BCE-225 CE)," Poster, American Anthropological Association, 2022
Allen, Mitchell, and William B. Trousdale, "The Thousand Year Shrine: Ancient Roots of a Modern Islamic Tomb in Desert Southwest Afghanistan," Paper, Society for American Archaeology, 2023
Allen, Mitchell, William B. Trousdale, and Robert K. Vincent, Jr., "Visual Sistan: Archaeological Photographs and Landscape Change in Southwest Afghanistan in the 20th Century," Society for American Archaeology, 2022
Morris, Lauren, Rachel Mairs, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Mitchell Allen, and William B. Trousdale, "The Temple Inscription at Sehyak, Afghanistan," paper, Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network, 2021
Pezzopane, Silvio K. and John W. Whitney, "A Seismotectonic Review of the Impact of the Makran Subduction Zone on the Helmand-Sistan Block-- Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan," Poster, Geological Society of America Cordillera Section, 2023
Whitney, John W., and Silvio K. Pezzopane, "Submerged Kaluts in Southwestern Afghanistan," Poster, Geological Society of America Cordillera Section, 2023
Online Lectures
Allen, Mitchell, Surveying Sistan, UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility, 2019. Video
Allen, Mitchell, Afghan Sistan in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, Early Urbanisation in Iran Seminars, 2021. Video
Allen, Mitchell, Ask An Archaeologist, UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility, 2021. Video
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