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Excavations at Bampur, a third millennium settlement in Persian Baluchistan, 1966

[s.l.]51 (3)Published In 1970 • Pages: 233-355

By: De Cardi, Beatrice.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document outlines the excavations carried out in 1966 at the prehistoric settlement of Bampur in southeastern Iran. Major emphasis in this work is on Bampur pottery, which is important because it throws fresh light on cultural relations between the frontier regions of Persian Baluchistan (in southeastern Iran) and the adjacent countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan during the third millenium B.C. (p. 237). De Cardi discusses the wares from the standpoint of six major periods which she designates as Bampur I-VI. Bampur I-IV represents development within a hitherto unrecognized assemblage, superseded in period V by a hybrid culture from which period VI developed. In this monograph only periods II, III, and IV are considered as relevant to the Iranian Bronze Age and are indexed with OCM categories. Although no carbon-14 dating procedures were undertaken, the author's comparative evidence suggests that the six periods of occupation extended from approximately the second quarter of the third millennium B.C. to around 1900 B.C. The text is well illustrated throughout with numerous figures depicting similarities and differences in the types and decorative designs of the pottery representative of the various periods listed above.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Comparative evidence
Ceramic technology
Lithic industries
Visual arts
Chronologies and culture sequences
Cultural stratigraphy
Typologies and classifications
Archaeological inventories
traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Iranian Bronze Age
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Middle East
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Middle East
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
Book
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Archaeologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
NotesAdditional notes
Beatrice De Cardi
Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-351)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
72181250
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Bronze age--Iran