The New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar, Iran / Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gürsan-Salzmann, Ayşe, Author.

Series:

University Museum monograph ; 142.

University Museum Monographs ; 142

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bronze age--Iran--Hissar Tepe.

Hissar Tepe (Iran).

Iran--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tepe Hissar is a large Bronze Age site in northeastern Iran notable for its uninterrupted occupational history from the fifth to the second millennium B.C.E. The quantity and elaborateness of its excavated artifacts and funerary customs position the site prominently as a cultural bridge between Mesopotamia and Central Asia. To address questions of synchronic and diachronic nature relating to the changing levels of socioeconomic complexity in the region and across the greater Near East, chronological clarity is required. While Erich Schmidt's 1931-32 excavations for the Penn Museum established the historical framework at Tepe Hissar, it was Robert H. Dyson, Jr., and his team's follow-up work in 1976 that presented a stratigraphically clearer sequence for the site with associated radiocarbon dates. Until now, however, a full study of the site's ceramic assemblages has not been published.This monograph brings to final publication a stratigraphically based chronology for the Early Bronze Age settlement at Tepe Hissar. Based on a full study of the ceramic assemblages excavated from radiocarbon-dated occupational phases in 1976 by Dyson and his team, and linked to Schmidt's earlier ceramic sequence that was derived from a large corpus of grave contents, a new chronological framework for Tepe Hissar and its region is established. This clarified sequence provides ample evidence for the nature of the evolution and the abandonment of the site, and its chronological correlations on the northern Iranian plateau, situating it in time and space between Turkmenistan and Bactria on the one hand and Mesopotamia on the other.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Figures

Tables

Sections

Maps

Acknowledgments

Tepe Hissar, an Introduction

1, Erich F. Schmidt Excavations (1931–32)

2. Stratigraphy and Architecture

3. Analysis of Ceramic Complexes of the Main Mound and the North Flat

4. Burial Stratigraphy: The Main Mound and the North Flat, 1931–32 and 1976

5. Death and Burial Culture of Tepe Hissar

6. Concluding Remarks

Appendix 1. Pottery Charts

Appendix 2. Low and High Outlier Burial Tables

Appendix 3. Maps

Appendix 4. Radiocarbon Dates from the 1976 Restudy Project

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-934536-84-9

OCLC:

949989698