Iranian Plateau

This manuscript presents a critical reappraisal of the late fourth-millennium BC occupation of Godin Tepe (Period VI), based on a comprehensive analysis of previously unpublished excavation archives and artifact assemblages housed at the Royal Ontario...

PUBLISHED 2013. Please visit the publication's webpage. The site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other important aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). The material culture of Period IVC is not...

PUBLISHED 2008. Please visit the publication's webpage. This is the final report on the eleven seasons of excavations at Chogha Mish. In addition to the materials and records from Chogha Mish, the director of this publication project, Dr. Abbas Alizadeh...

PUBLISHED 2014. Please visit the publication's webpage . The significance of the proposed publication lies in the rare uninterrupted archaeological sequence at Tall-e Ghazir that covers the span of the crucial 5th and 4th millennia when state...

Hasanlu, ancient name unknown, is located in northwestern Iran just south of Lake Urmia in the valley of the Qadar River in the Zagros Mountains. This fortified citadel settlement rose to prominence in the Late Bronze Age (1450–1250 BC) and early Iron Age...

PUBLISHED 2013. Please visit the publication's webpage . Hasanlu Tepe is the largest site in the Qadar River valley of northwestern Iran and dominates the small Sulduz plain. The tepe consists of a 25 m high central mound, 13 HA in area, surrounded by a...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. Sangtarashan ( 48/33/748E and 33/14/55N) is an archaeological site located in the heart of the Zagros Mountains, in the southern part of Luristan province in western Iran. It was discovered...