Book
Tradition and transformation: Tepe Yahya and the Iranian plateau during the third millennium B.C.
Harvard University • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1997 • Pages:
By: Potts, Daniel T..
Abstract
Tepe Yahya, located in the southwestern part of the Soghun Valley in southeastern Iran, is the focus of this disseration. The site was first discovered by a survey party led by Professor C.C. Lamberg-Karlovski of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, in the summer of 1967. At that time a small test trench was opened up and further expanded during excavations carried out during the summers of 1968-1971,1973 and 1975.These later excavations exposed seven periods of occcupation dating from the neolithic era to the first centuries of the Christian period. This work is concerned with occupation level IV which spans the entirety of the third millennium and extends for an indeterminate length of time into the second millennium B.C. (p. 1). The author's approach to this study is first to discuss the excavations of period IV at Tepe Yahya through a presentation of data on the architecture, stratigraphy, ceramics, and small finds found at the site, followed by a series of chapters which deal in detail with certain problems raised by the material itself (p. 6).
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Notes
- Daniel T. Potts
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Harvard University, 1980
- LCSH
- Bronze age--Iran