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The Proto-Elamite settlement of Tepe Yahya
Iran • 9 • Published In 1971 • Pages: 87-96
By: Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the Proto-Elamite settlement at Tepe Yahya located in the Kirman Province of Iran. This site was chosen because it provides '…the archaeological setting of the Proto-Elamite tablets, cylinder and stamp seals, ceramics, steatite, their architectural association, and their implication to general chronological and culture historical reconstuctions' (p. 87). A number of text figures and plates depict the various artifacts and structures noted above.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Writing
- Ceramic technology
- Dwellings
- Utensils
- Property in movables
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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
- article
- 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
- by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64009404
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bronze age--Iran