Tepe Yahya

Tepe Yahya

Tepe Yahya is an archaeological site in Kerman, Iran, some 220 km south of Kerman and 90 km south-west of Jiroft. It was excavated 1967 to 1975 by the "American School of Prehistoric Research" under the direction of C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky.

Habitation spans the 6th to 2nd millennia BC and the 10th to 4th centuries BC.In the 3rd millennium BC, the city was a production center of chlorite pottery which were exported to Mesopotamia. In this period, the area was under Elamite influence, and tablets with Proto-Elamite inscriptions were found

The mound is some 20 m high, at a base of 187 m in diameter. Periodization is as follows:

:VII: 5500-4500 BCE:VI-Vc: 4500-3600 BCE:Vb-a: 3600-3200 BCE:IVc: 3100-2800 BCE:IVb: 2400-2000 BCE:IVa: 1800-1400 BCE:III: 800-500 BCE:II: 500-275 BCE:I: 200 BCE - 300

Literature

*Clifford C. Lamberg-Karlovsky: "Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967 - 1975, The early periods", Cambridge, Mass. 1986, ISBN 0-87365-541-9
*Clifford C. Lamberg-Karlovsky: "Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967 - 1975, The third millennium", Cambridge, Mass. 2001 ISBN 0-87365-549-4
*Peter Magee: "Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975: The Iron Age Settlement", ISBN 0-87365-550-8
*Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund: "The proto-elamite texts from Tepe Yahya", Cambridge, Mass. 1989 ISBN 0-87365-542-7
* [http://www.iranica.com/articles/ot_grp5/ot_tepe_yahya_20040901.html Encyclopedia Iranica]

ee also

*Shahr-i Sokhta
*Jiroft culture
*Marhasi


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