Part I. Background and beginnings
1. The history of archaeological research in Iran: A brief survey / Ali Mousavi
2. Key questions regarding the paleoenvironment of Iran / Matthew D. Jones
3. The Paleolithic of Iran / Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari-Guran
4. The development and expansion of a Neolithic way of life / Lloyd R. Weeks
Part II. The Chalcolithic period
5. The Chalcolithic of northern Iran / Barbara Helwing
6. The Chalcolithic in the central Zagros / Abbas Moghaddam and Ardashir Javanmardzadeh
7. The Later Village (Chalcolithic) period in Khuzestan / Abbas Moghaddam
8. The Chalcolithic in southern Iran / Cameron A. Petrie
Part III. The Bronze Age
9. The Early Bronze Age in northwestern Iran / Geoffrey D. Summers
10. The Bronze Age in northeastern Iran / Christopher P. Thornton
11. Luristan and the central Zagros in the Bronze Age / D.T. Potts
12. Khuzestan in the Bronze Age / Javier Álvarez-Mon
13. Early writing in Iran / Jacob L. Dahl
14. The use of Akkadian in Iran / Katrien De Graef
15. Bronze Age Fars / Bernadette McCall
16. Eastern Iran in the Early Bronze Age / Holly Pittman
Part IV. The Iron Age
17. The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in northwestern Iran / Michael D. Danti
18. Luristan during the Iron Age / Bruno Overlaet
19. The central Alborz region in the Iron Age / Ali Mousavi
20. Linguistic groups in Iran / Ran Zadok
21. Iranian migration / Michael Witzel
22. Assyria and the Medes / Karen Radner
23. Elam in the Iron Age / Javier Álvarez-Mon
24. Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia in the early 1st millennium BC / Matthew Waters
25. Iron Age southeastern Iran / Peter Magee
Part V. The Achaemenid period
26. Southwestern Iran in the Achaemenid period / Rémy Boucharlat
27. Administrative realities: The Persepolis Archives and the archaeology of the Achaemenid heartland / Wouter F.M. Henkelman
28. Avesta and Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenids and early Sasanians / Prods Oktor Skjærvø
29. Royal Achaemenid iconography / Mark B. Garrison
30. Color and gilding in Achaemenid architecture and sculpture / Alexander Nagel
31. Eastern Iran in the Achaemenid period / Bruno Genito
32. Old Persian / Jan Tavernier
33. Greek sources on Achaemenid Iran / Maria Brosius
VI. Seleucid, post-Achaemenid and Arsacid archaeology and history
34. Alexander the Great and the Seleucids in Iran / Paul J. Kosmin
35. Media, Khuzestan and Fars between the end of the Achaemenids and the rise of the Sasanians / Pierfrancesco Callieri and Alireza Askari Chaverdi
36. Fratarakā and Seleucids / Josef Wiesehöfer
37. The Arsacids (Parthians) / Stefan R. Hauser
38. Parthian and Elymaean rock reliefs / Trudy S. Kawami
39. Arsacid, Elymaean and Persid coinage / Khodadad Rezakhani
40. Aramaic, Parthian and Middle Persian / Seiro Haruta
41. The use of Greek in pre-Sasanian Iran / Georges Rougemont
VII. The Sasanian period
42. Sasanian political ideology / M. Rahim Shayegan
43. Sasanian coinage / Nikolaus Schindel
44. Sasanian interactions with Rome and Byzantium / Peter Edwell
45. Sasanian rock reliefs / Matthew P. Canepa
46. Kuh-e Khwaja and the religious architecture of Sasanian Iran / Soroor Ghanimati
47. Sasanian administation and sealing practices / Negin Miri
48. Luxury silver vessels of the Sasanian period / Kate Masia-Radford
49. Sasanian textiles / Carol Bier
50. Pre-Islamic Iranian calendrical systems in the context of Iranian religious and scientific history / Antonio C.D. Panaino
51. The Islamic conquest of Sasanian Iran / Michael G. Morony.