craft activity areas; Hajjiabad-Varamin; Halil Rud civilisation; Konar Sandal sites network; surface survey; Cultural Studies; Anthropology; Arts and Humanities (all)
Abstract :
[en] The purpose of this article is to introduce the large prehistoric site of Hajjiabad-Varamin, its changes in time and the first discoveries made there, in the specific literature on the early Bronze Age of the south-eastern Iranian Plateau. The first part of the article describes the site, its present damaged conditions, the periodisation we adopted and the complex topographic shifts and changes of functions through time. The second part focuses on the settlement of the 3rd millennium BC and discusses a major craft activity area found east of the main elevation of the site, in which were manufactured vessels in various stones (white alabaster, grey limestones with white fossil inclusions, and probably chlorite). Collections include large drill-heads in volcanic rocks used on the interior of the stone pots, and standardised beads of a green and red-banded calcite broken while being drilled. While the stone vessels find abundant comparisons and were certainly in demand for long-distance trade, the beads type is not known in other contexts and were presumably made for a local demand. We also present the unusual find of a hoard of copper objects which helps framing the 3rd millennium BC centre in terms of cultural links and chronology.
Disciplines :
Archaeology
Author, co-author :
Eskandari, Nasir ; Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran ; Center for International Scientific Studies and Collaboration (CISSC), Ministry of Science Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran ; Department of Archaeology, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Iran
Desset, François ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de l'antiquité ; CNRS Team Archéorient, UMR 5133, Lyon, France
Shafiee, Mojgan; CNRS Team Archéorient, UMR 5133, Lyon, France
Shahsavari, Meysam; Department of Archaeology, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Iran
Anjamrouz, Salman; Department of Archaeology, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Iran
Caldana, Irene; Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padova, Padova, Italy ; ISMEO, Rome, Italy
Daneshi, Ali; Department of Archaeology, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Iran
Shahdadi, Ali; Department of Archaeology, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Iran
Vidale, Massimo; Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padova, Padova, Italy ; ISMEO, Rome, Italy
Language :
English
Title :
Preliminary Report on the Survey of Hajjiabad-Varamin, a Site of the Konar Sandal Settlement Network (Jiroft, Kerman, Iran)
Publication date :
2023
Journal title :
Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies
This work has been supported by the Center for International
Scientific Studies and Collaboration (CISSC), Ministry of
Science Research and Technology, Islamic Republic of Iran,
University of Jiroft, by ISMEO (Rome) and the Dept. of Cultural
Heritage, University of Padova (Italy).
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