Tappeh Hesar: reports of the restudy project, 1976
Casa Editrice de Lettere • (2) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 151 , plates
By: Dyson, Robert H., Howard, Susan M., Tosi, Maurizio, Meder, Oskar G., Pigott, Vincent C., Bugarelli, G. M., Remsen, William C. S., Rosenberg, Michael, Ellis, Richard, Horne, Lee, Blackman, M. James, Bennett, Leslie, Nowell, George W., Rathbun, Ted A., Maurer Trinkaus, Kathryn, Lawn, Barbara, Harris, Mary Virginia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Tappeh Hesar is the largest known prehistoric site in the Damghan region of Iran and was located originally on the southwestern limit of the large deltaic fan of the Damghan Rliver which drains the southern side of the Alborz between Semnan and Shahrud (p. 2). The original excavation of Tappeh Hesar was undertaken by Dr. Erich F. Schmidt for The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in 1931-1932. Subsequent brief examinations in 1956, 1971, 1972, and 1974 were made by Dyson and other, but it was not until 1976 that a major restudy project was initiated, under the sponsorship of The University Museum, Turin University, and the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research. This document consists of a series of articles by several archaeologist, presenting the findings of this research project. The information presented covers the geography of the region, archaeo-metallurgical investigations, cultural stratigraphy, architecture, craft specialization, tools and artifacts found at the site, the seals of Tappeh Hesar, analyses of the skeletal remains, and dating methods and chrononologies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Laboratory analysis of materials other than dating methods in archaeology
- Soil
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Metallurgy
- Dwellings
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- edited by Robert H. Dyson, Jr. and Susan M. Howard
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 149-151)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bronze age--Iran